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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PO3 John Wagner
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SFC Lyle Green
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Careful what you wish for.
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SGT J M Porters
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First of all he does not speak without permission. Then you break your foot off so far up his rear until it is shining from toe to hill. Remember you are in charge and if you can not do the job there are quite a few waiting for the chance. Duty assignments are not a debate. We are not here to be their budy. We are here to train and that means learning how to get the job done. You command respect from your troops because you have the rank. You also command respect because the 1stSGT is going to be in your behind if you do not get the job done.
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SPC Steven Oxley
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In my day it would ensured a boot in his ass.
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PO1 Alvin S.
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You leave everyone in formation and tell the fresh E2 to step out and remind him what boot camp was like. Have him do pushups or any exercise of your choice until he realizes that you were not asking him to complete the tasks, you were ordering him.
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SGT Sean Hale
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First off i dont calmly tell them anything a second time. That is where you are going wrong by allowimg this punk to get to the point where they think they can talk to any NCO in a manner that their opinion counts. You obviously are the problem because this private thinks its ok to talk to you in that manner.
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PO1 Richard Nyberg
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I would work that smart mouth out of him on every shit detail I could give him. That's from an old soldier and sailor
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Sgt Wesley Wilson
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this happened when I was in basic, we all recieved restriction to barracks for two weeks, BLANKET PArTY @1a.m. NO MORE problems
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SPC David Hannaman
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Article 15, confined to quarters for a month. Sorry son, we're gonna make an example out of you.
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SPC Joseph Durham
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First, I would drop the private to the front lean and rest.
Second, I would note the team leader to stay.
Third, I would start having the private do pushups while I explain the situation to the team leader.
Fourth, I would instruct the team leader as to what the private needs to do. And if the private does not do it to my satisfaction, then the team leader will be the one doing it.
I would make sure both know beyond a shadow of a doubt that what ever I say in formation are orders and not suggestions.
Finally, I would inspect that the job was completed to my satisfaction. Any back talk and I would ask my Platoon Sgt for an Article 15 hearing against the private with the expected penalty to be severe but be suspended unless the private makes demands again.
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GySgt Duane DaVein
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He or she would not survive the battlefield.
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