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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SFC Carl Olney
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I talk back to my drill SGT in 76 at age 17. Well you can guess where that went. i got body slammed and i never did that again
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SFC David Pope, MBA
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GySgt Pepper gave a text book answer. He is an example of a true leader. I would like to add that in this day in age there are some who would take the Gunny's offer of leaving the military. I have seen soldiers who have spent their time as a permanent private until they were QMP'd. There are those who refuse to comply to anything. My nephew has spent most of his adult life behind bars. His record is three months out on parole before going back in. Some of these young soldiers just need some corrective action, but there are those who will pee on the electric fence every day just out of spite!
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SGT Douglas Byrd
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Immediate obedience, that is not the time or place for any sort of insubordination. It is correct, dismiss the detail and have him and his team leader stand fast. Ensure there was no misunderstanding of the instructions. Then you order the team leader to ensure the assignment is accomplished and escort the offender back to you, THAT is when you find out what caused the breakdown, and work to correct it from there.
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SFC Kevin Hathaway
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E-2 is not a Private First Class he is a private and if given a second chance he does not change his attitude he becomes a Private E-1!
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PO2 Joe Wallace
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In my day,1983 -1995 , we would have" discussed" this sa in the privacy of the bosn's locker and then he would have gone and completed the task that I assigned to him.
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SPC Katherine Adams (Clayburn)
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*sorry for the misspellings, etc. My current youngest was trying to grab my phone...lol. He's 10 months....
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SPC Katherine Adams (Clayburn)
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Had this happen in real life.....granted I was not an E5...but and E4. I worked as a 92G stationed in Ft Hood, we had two units working in our DFAC. Ours (3rd ACR, Now 3rd CR), and 36th Engineer Brigade. we were getting new cooks coming in fresh from their AIT training, after we (my unit) had gotten back from Iraq.
One of the sargents came up and had me to tell a private to go and mop by one of the our walkins, since he was just standing there doing nothing. She was from their unit. She, herself, was busy, and I was just slicing up desserts- easy task to do since I was pregnant. I do so and he went straight to giving me lip, telling me to do it myself. I informed him, calmly, that SGT wanted you to go and do it so to stay busy, instead of standing there looking lost. Gives me lip again, sizing me up, cause he was taller than me. Deep down, I really wanted to hit him since he felt froggish....but instead I went back to the Sargant and gave her the run down. In the end she had him in front eaning rest, had him mop, and later had him placed in the motor pool with the other cooks we had organizing the conexes. -We had a lot to go through in inventory to make sure everything made it back-
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CW3 Reclined In My Chair
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I believe the best answer is only two words, "Command Presence." After a break in service I re-enlisted as an E2 in 1962 (it’s a long story). I had to take Basic Training training all over again. The basic company I was assigned to was short a Platoon Sergeant (in today's Amy a DI) the CO asked me to fill that vacancy. There were two other prior service members in the company, they were both PFCs. I said, "If that is your desire, I’ll take the position." He said, we've already cut two sets of orders. One promoting you to PFC and other making you a full acting Staff Sergeant. I knew that meat sewing on the stripes. I asked the CO why I was chosen? He said, "You have that thing called Command Presence. The men recognize it and will follow you because you have it. and all of the NCOs agree.

Here's a good article on "Command Presence." ... https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/NCO-Journal/Archives/2018/January/Military-Bearing/
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PFC Stephens Clark
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Dismiss the rest of the squad but the PFC, and squad leader. Have Squad leader Retrain the soldier in his duties, and actions as a Soldier in front of Superior NCO'S, and Officers. If all else fails give him the PIT for 3 hrs a day for a week to start. If he still has the same issue take it to the next step. DISIPLINE extra duty, restriction to base..
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PO2 Karl Lehn
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Stay calm, if you kill the lil fucker you go to jail. Take him to a quiet place and explain things to him. If that doesn't work Art 15.
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