Posted on Oct 16, 2016
How would you react to an E2 who "smart mouths" you in formation?
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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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Depends on what's going on....a parade formation or public forum (such as COC, or Ceremony) may not be the best place for a show of force.....however eventually there will be a detail requiring the unique skills I'm sure the E2 possesses...and one thing most SNCOs have is a good memory of the skillsets of their "special" troops...
SGT John Overby
You missed it is an assignment of duties formation.
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SGT John Overby - ahhh....well then lite him up
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I think the shock would leave me completely speechless!
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Public thrashing is the best way to handle this right then and there. Then you give him shi& house detail for a week.
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I would ask my assistant to take over, take the E2 somewhere private and handle the situation.
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E2 would have spent the rest of the day on the flight line cleaning out padeyes with a plastic spoon and a styrofoam coffee cup. Afterwards they would be scrubbing bird shit off the hangar floor by hand
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I'd Make An E-1 Out Of An E-2.
And Try Keeping Him There For a Couple Of Years Or So.
You Give Orders, They Take Orders.
Keep It That Way !!
And Try Keeping Him There For a Couple Of Years Or So.
You Give Orders, They Take Orders.
Keep It That Way !!
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This is the correct response. Needs to be swift and straight to the point and what you expect of him now and in the future.
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