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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Sgt Matthew Keller
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Punch him in the throat and hide his corpse next to the dead hooker in the attic
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SN Stephen Siewert
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It is a new military, I would have been carrying 5 gallon buckets of sand all day until I decided I wanted to be back in Navy and follow orders. I know it is a volunteer force today, and that is awesome, but we had all enlisted in the Navy (so we were volunteers as well). Enough with the molly coddling, don't let your mouth write checks your ass can't cash. Exercise until you drop, KP or some other shit duty and elevate to brig time if the don't get the message. It's like a cancer and if you don't cut it out it fosters resentment. A soldier has the right to bitch, but under his breath, or to his buddies ,but not in the face of his superior in front of other guys.
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CPL Merwin Stapp
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Dropped and Smoked !
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Brad Miller
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If it was in front of the whole formation, bring the hammer down in front of the whole formation. Otherwise, take them aside for a little one-on-one. But insubordination CANNOT be tolerated in a chain-of-command.
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CPT Wayne Price
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I would get nose to nose with him and tell him, I gave you an order, follow it or suffer the consequences.! Do you understand ?
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CPL Steve Freeman
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One way to end that is to demonstrate that a size 10 boot will in fact fit up his ass. Moreover, it will fit so far up his ass that you can tickle his tonsils by simply wiggling your toes. Perhaps a healthy regimen of 15 hours of leg flutters, mountain climbers and front leaning rest position (you know, during breaks) and having demonstrated his inability to manage E2 responsibilities, a relief of responsibility down to a much easier managed position of E1...indefinitely...could be in order. Maybe discuss with him all the amazing possibilities to look forward to as he follows this path, like spending the rest of his life in a concrete box in Kansas, and spending his outside time swinging a 15 lb sledge hammer turning big rocks into little rocks. :) There are all sorts of possible solutions. As a commander of men (MEN), you have a plethora of options from which to choose.
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SSG Michael Love
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I don't think the Services have lost their art of dressing down a subordinate. I think I was called everything but a child of God. But, I have seen some very strange things happen.
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MSG Dale Day
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He would quickly find himself in front of the Commanding Officer for Non-judicial Punishment.
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PO1 Mike Wallace
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First I count to ten to prevent my being court martialed. Then i would think about the worst possible assignment and let him and all others present know he was going to be assigned that duty. If he was already on the s___bird duty that day then he would discover he was assigned to it for a week.
Shortly after arriving at my first ship I let the Chief know he was assigning me to a working party two days in a row which he usually rotated. An hour later I was reporting to the mess deck master at arms for 3 months mess cook duty. It taught me a lesson that stuck with me and I used the same method years later as a leading petty officer. And yes when this stuff happened I counted to ten.
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SPC Larry Weigel Jr.
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I never made NCO (safer that way) but seen one E-3 get his ass handed to him - in public! Blatantly disrespected an order from the platoon NCO (E-7P, Nam vet) who proceeded to give him the dressing down of epic proportions. Flat ripped this guy a new ass and then sent him to the CO who proceeded to present this twat E-3 with some great papers - reassignment and loss of some uniform jewelry. Heard ding-a-ling got shipped out to a post stateside as a groundskeeper.
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