Posted on Oct 16, 2016
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Here's the background. You're a senior E5. Your troops are in formation and you're handing out work for the day. You hand out an assignment to a fresh E2 with less than a year in and only a few months at your command. They blatantly complain and tell you to choose someone else. You calmly tell them they will do this task and they tell you to shove it and give it to someone else. How do you react?
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SCPO Burt Crapo
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I would have him fall out and be escorted back to the command for disciplinary action to follow. The carry on smartly.
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CW4 Peter McHugh
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...could you hold up your " I need a safe space" card?
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LCpl Rifleman
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Imagine this. Your a salty lance in the same situation but it's a boot POG Cpl that picked up after the same time with no deployments and he smarts off during mcmap PT while he's being a fat lazy turd and you call him out. And you get kicked out of the marine corps for it. FUSMC. Bunch of sensitive pussies
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CWO2 Shelby DuBois
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When I was a Sgt...in Okinawa... I may or may not have had a smart ass remark thrown my way during a formation. I may or may not have reached across someone and smack someone in the face with my clipboard and offer to meet and discuss in the conference alley between the warehouse after formation. He declined, supposedly, and his peers piled on telling him he was way out of line, I'm guessing... Had another incident where a new L/Cpl, upon meeting one of our MSgts commented...'you're kind of fat for a MSgt aren't you?'.... The MSgt said he was working on it but right now he needed a LCpl for the wash rack where a half dozen PFC's and L/Cpls were washing down aircraft... Every 10 min or so, the MSgt would take away one of the crew...in a few minutes only the loud mouth was washing the bird...After a couple days, it finally dawned on said L/Cpl, whereby he apologized for his rudeness. Two different examples ...either case, civility was restored.
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SFC William Sutherland III
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Years ago at a Joint Training Facility I was advised that a certain E4 acted negatively to what was directed as Joint Command Directives; his response to an E7 was he is a Marine and they do their tastings differently! My response was this - you have two options Marine as I cornered him to the side as not to make an incident even more obvious; you can follow me to the Commanders office where we would summon the Dean of Admissions and they will type your rescinding orders sendind you back to your duty station with a no-go and fail or, you will take orders as given! (And I emphasized that the outgoing process is to notify his command of his failure to follow orders which is an Article 15). His response was a resounding-"No, Sergeant 1st Class I'll do as instructed!"
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SSgt George Ransom
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Give them the assignment. Then give them the choice, Do the job or report to the first sergeant, on report.
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SPC Alex Butterfield
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You must follow all lawful orders period. Have them and they're stand by after formation and lay out the expectations. If they are going to have a hard time follow orders then it's time for an ART-15, counselling or both bottom line is the military is a combat organisation and when the shit hits the fan there's no time for individuals.
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PO1 Ed Roller
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I agree with GySgt Pepper. Nip it in the bud and quickly. Over the years I've learned to hold my tongue in front of others but take them aside and let them know EXACTLY what they were doing wrong and were going to do, no ifs ands , or buts. I made the mistake of talking back to a superior once back in the 80's. He pulled a contract and showed me where I was only guaranteed 1 hour sleep a day and held me to that for nearly 4 months. I had a new understanding at that point. In the end, he admitted he was wrong but for me to talk back in front of others was also wrong. We shook hands and he even commended me on taking it.
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PFC Adam Gregory
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I'm a bit old school before stress cards and women in the infantry (not saying the latter is bad just different then what i was use to). In the words of Major Payne "I'm gonna make you strong". I would smoke that cherry until he couldn't walk, Him and his team leader. Push them to succeed or quit. With that attitude please quit.
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SGT Randall Smith
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I'm sorry but what is a stress card? If that is like a time out I wish they had those in the 60's. I put up with a lot of stress in Basic but I learned how to avoid it for the next 2 1/2 years. Look sharp, act sharp and keep your mouth shut if you were not sure what the answer was. That got me through AIT and when I got to Germany it worked for me there too. The 1LT I was assigned to ask if I knew anything about radios. Told him No Sir but would like to learn. So he and Spec 6 Mann taught me to triangulate radio signals and much more. When Spec 6 Mann left for Nam I took his place as a Spc 4. Got sent to radio school. 16 months after enlisting I was a Buck. Sgt E5. I could never under stand the guys in the Army for almost 2 years and still PFC or Spc 4. I wanted the money, respect and did not have to pick up butts. When I got to Nam there was SFC Mann in Bn HQ. Knew a lot of the guys there. When I got to my company my First had been the First in Germany and I knew several of the guys from there. My problem as an NCO was I expected my troops to be strack like I was.
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SPC Geoffrey Jenkins
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remind the subordinate where his place is in the chain of command and give his ass some extra duty,
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Jeffery Shaffer
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I would make him do drills and make his life a living hell and he would learn to respect commanding officer.
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FA John Roman
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Report it to the Chief Petty Officer on Duty at the time.
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Dennis Bonfiglio
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There is a job to be done, you are training for the job, the training is tough because the job is tough, the training is making you tough, so you can preform the job.
Sometimes people don't like doing what needs to be done, but it has to be done.
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SFC Clifford Tanner
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I would do it in the same manner as it was shown to me back in the 70s. Take him out to the wood-line and show him the error of his ways
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Sgt Aaron Pixler
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The drill instructors build on what the parents instill. Today we have a softer weaker generation. The threat of NJP takes away the tools we need as leaders. Thrash his assistant until he can't get up. Break his mind until he's nothing. Build him back up tough. In the mean time he's on every shot detail you can throw his way. To bad we can't beat people any more. It's the corps. We are not supposed to be soft. Mouths like that get people killed in combat.
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SSG Jerry Kelly
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i would remind him of what he should have learned in boot camp about lawful and direct orders explain to him clearly how the army works , no matter how insufficient a task might seem the directive to carry out an order must be followed,because the Army works as a team ,,the lives of others and the mission ,may rely upon him to understand and follow orders.and also to carry out those orders to the best of his ability., Ask him again if he clearly understands this. If he does, reassign the task to him Establish immediate remedial punishment for his insubordination " besides the task set forth, and if that works fine, you do not have to carry this matter out any further,
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SSG Nodal Network Systems Operators/Maintainer
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The fix is simple. Document on formal counseling and assigned corrective training which fits the inappropriate behavior until default workable attitude is obtained. If not, continue further counseling and forward to chain for chapter process out on failure to adapt because defective soldiers drain the purpose of the mission and valuable time from the nco which keeps them away from training a squad or platoon for war.
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Laura Medley
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Request 50 push ups
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CPO Joseph Tipton
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I would then tell him he has now just volunteered to do that task every day until he understands to a where he went wrong talking back to a senior NCO or until he transfer out of your unit. Too bad we can't just take him out back and give him some one on one training like in the old days.
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James Kratzer
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My Father was a Gunnery Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. I would do as my Father done me and slap the shit out of him before he finished his sentence.
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