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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SPC Combat Engineer
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Or write them up for "failure to adapt".. I was a ass my beginning years but I did my job.. but I had reason, I was literally the minority and constantly picked on.. lol I threatened my E-5 to kick his ass.. away from the platoon.. and that was the end of that.. I went on for ten years with no hickups.. just one dick E-5.. so think about your soldier.. try to figure out his problem and if he's just worthless.. article 15 failure to adapt
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SPC Combat Engineer
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With today's rules... I'd say mass punishment.. let his friends get pissed and do the dirty work that you can't. Lol ever had soldiers doing push-ups, feet on a lmtv front bumper.. very effective
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Sgt Pete Kondrosky
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Myself a former USAF sergeant, air/ground crew rigger. 1964-10/1967 stateside...S.E. Asia 10/1967-10/1968, then my DD-214.
How WE did it...
First, the entire training squad is informed of DIPSHITS transgression, and need for an "attituse adjustment".
Then the squad gets "shit duty"...picking up, field stripping (separating the paper, tobacco, and filter if any) from the tossed cigarette butts from a LARGE area, OR...dandelion picking from a likewise large area, you get the idea.

Typically in turn, DIPSHIT gets a "blanket party" in the middle of the night, maybe the same night or relatively soon thereafter, as a "thank you" from the squad members he screwed with.

THIS...always corrected a DIPSHIT'S attitude...
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SGT Hector Rojas, AIGA, SHA
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How would I react?

NOT WELL AT ALL.
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SFC Jamie Whitaker
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First and foremost. The issues here is obvious. #1, Respect & #2 Discipline.

Any one of my soldiers knew the ramifications of what would happen. And they would never would of acted out like that.

Getting to the issue, Pvt Loudmouth would of paid dearly. The next step would be standing on the carpet in front of the CO and receive punishment under the UCMJ. If it continues, then there are several ways to reach that soldiers attention. Peer pressure is one. Wall to Wall counseling, though illegal, is another way. Ultimately, the discipline issue can lead to dismissal from the Army. I never tolerated that behavior. Because my soldiers knew that I had zero tolerance for BS. And if left up to me, that soldier would regret ever doing it. And it would never happened again.
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SP5 Robert Kennedy
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As a respectful E-5, I'd probably think about the E-2 response for a few seconds then I'd dismiss the platoon - except for the E-2 - and then I'd probably "shove it" somewhere the idiot E-2 wasn't expecting it to be shoved.
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LTC Ray Buenteo
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Lol when I first read this I immediately thought of a famous line in a movie, “I want him spitting blood.” Just recall a version of the same comment made to me in the military, “it ain’t training till your spitting blood.”
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LTC Ray Buenteo
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If I was an NCO life would become very difficult for that E2. Document and discipline until he or she developed military bearing or was out the door to civilian life. The choice is the soldiers in the end. One thing that helped me adjust in the military was telling myself “the NCO is not the enemy unless you make them the enemy.”
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CPT William Pearson
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I would have Sergeant Major and myself discipline the young soldier, after explaining to him the code of conduct and after training there would be more training with the head NCO observing progress.
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SGT John Ball
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Pvt shitbird would be making the walls sweat after I got done with him for pulling a stunt like that.
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