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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PO2 Brian Hoadley
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Ask him his height?
He will respond with why?
You reply: Because I want to know if we have the right size mattress for your cell in the brig shitbag. Now get your ass on the move and on task or you will wait out your enlistment in a cell, eventually. Show them to the nearest posted UCMJ, fold your arms and wait.
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Sgt Dennis Krizan
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In NCO school, had a guy refuse to march in step & kept saying sh*t while we were going somewhere. Wasn't sure if it was a disrespect or race thing. Stopped the platoon once & asked him to march properly & stop w/the comments. He complied for a minute or two then at it again. Stopped the platoon again, left faced everyone. This time I told him if he doesn't knock off the chatter & stay in step, I won't do a thing until we get back. I will then write him up requesting a bust in rank & fine. I think fines averaged around $135ish then. This will hit you in the wallet. He was already at the rear of the platoon so his being out of step wasn't that big of a deal to the other guys/Marines, just looked like sh*t. He stayed in step & no chatter the rest of the day. Much later I wondered if he was a plant by the instructors to test me.
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MSG Alfred Aguilar
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I hate the "back in my day" crap but here it goes. I don't recall NCO's directly confronting a disobedient soldier. What they did was make everyone else's life much harder. The problem was usually quickly resolved once the rest of the platoon had some "alone time" with the wayward soldier. If the soldier continued to be a problem, he was quickly separated from service. These individuals have a corrosive effect on unit integrity.
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1SG Craig Gardner
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Cut one testicle off and you'll never have a problem with him again, nobody wants to say he has no balls
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SGT Infantryman
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“What was that buddy? Oh I got something ELSE for your stupid ass to do then”
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LCpl Cody Collins
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When I listed in the Marine Corps back in October 79 those Drill instructors put the fear of God in us. As long as you were an NCOE4 and above you got the respect of everybody under you it never occurred to me that smart mouth a question order yeah we might’ve stood around as we carried out the order we might’ve sat around and talked about how we thought it was a bunch of BS sometimes but that was out of fact that we didn’t understand what was going on but never well we Tele staff and CEO or sergeant or corporal to his face. “ I ain’t doing it” that’s an instant beat down, There was no counseling to be had, no one feel pity for you fortunately during my time in the Marine Corps from 79 to 88 I seen very little of that kind of mentality. It wasn’t until the early 90s and beyond that I started hearing rumors E-3’s and E-2’s telling a sgt to go F%ck off.
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SGT Jim Giffin
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This would be a result of the "Everyone Gets A Trophy" Generation. Assure the young Private the only trophy he will get is a quick Article 15 and Chaptered out. Make sure the whole company is made aware of this example.
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PO3 David Weaver
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Only one person comes out of the Goat locker
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SSgt Russell Stevens
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First time is a private verbal counseling immediately following formation. Second time is written. Further incidents get elevated up the chain until the attitude improves or separation action is taken.
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SP5 Dennis Dorsey
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Edited 4 y ago
In 1965 I volunteered for Vietnam. Ended up in Germany and somehow gathered an attitude problem. Realizing that the attitude problem would get me kicked out of the Army, I again volunteered for VN. After getting there, my attitude problem disappeared as there was way more pressing problems to worry about.
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