How would you react to an E2 who "smart mouths" you in formation?

Smoke that ass

Make the rest of the platoon suffer and make the smart mouth watch. Generally, the platoon will get tired of it and square him away. Later, I'd give the private a counseling session to go in their file.

Give them one more chance to obey command. If not dress him down in formation. Cannot have a breakdown in discipline or refusal to follow chain of command. If continues use use progressive discipline.

Honestly, this guy needs to get burned. Not in public, discuss what his malfunction is, tell him why it's wrong and slap on some extra pt. If it becomes a habit, then a little humility needs to be taught.

I would knock the shit out of the until they complied!

fuck a counseling smoke the fuck out em

"God help me private, if you don't do as I say I swear I will shove that assignment straight up your asshole and have it come out your ears"

FRONT LEANING REST POSIIIITTTIIIOOONN, MOOOVE

Wow! That's some brave E-2! After a year in service that Pvt knows chain of command so needs to be brought out firmly in front of troops. I would advise that he was told not asked to do a job. If he still refused he needs to go speak to officer in charge n face disciplinary action. If you are given a job you have to do it. No ifs and buts about it. Or has Army changed that much?

Yeah... Fuck no that type of behavior might be a rallying cry for help and attention as a 10 year old but not a Soldier in my army. Let alone a grown ass adult. When you put on that uniform there is many responsibilitys that come with it and if you can't handle being professional bad ass then take my uniform off and move the FUCK on. If this my soldier I could guarantee you one of my other Joe's in the squad would lock that mother fucked up before I could even attempt to educate that Soldier on his poor choice. Honestly tho I have never had to deal with a soldier directly throwing himself under my buss. And really the only time I have ever seen it happen has been to WEAK NCOS you know the ones that send their Joe's out into the sun to do some bullshit or to clean all the bathrooms while they sit in Their office doing nothing. Lead by example right well if your down in the dirt with your guys and you are constantly teaching them and supporting them and motivating them in other words if your a real God damn NCO you WILL create an environment in which any of your Soldiers would never have any thought cross their mind of committing an offense punishable under ucmj let alone in front of his family his battle buddy's his friends. Not for fear of embarrassment or for what comes after legally. No no no it would never get to this point because you as an NCO know EVERYTHING about your soldier and what's going on in his or her life. And while being a positive inspirational non toxic but firm and strict(most of the time) supportive leader that Soldier 99% of the time be contacting you first before ANYONE else even their own family if they are in a situation that they can't handle because YOU have EARNED their trust and reliability. And in that 1% chance that they don't come to you you can bet your ass 100% of that 1% of the time they will tell one of their battles and intern because once again you have individually earned the respect of all your Soldiers that person they told is gonna come to you. So ultimately I think you should smoke your self and take your own rank off if you find that you got soldiers that even consider feeling like they need to tell you a God damned mother fucking bad ass fucking non commissioned officer to FUCK off.