If you found out your Leader or Immediate Supervisor was doing something against the law, like fraud, what would you do?

I'd have to report them, because fraud hurts all of us.

At a change-of-command party for our CPT at his own home, my 1SG made sure that I was aware of cocaine residue in the bathroom. He asked what I, a Spec4, was going to do about it. I said, "YOU know. It's not my responsibility." To my knowledge, he did nothing. But I also told an SFC elsewhere who reported it but kept my name out of it - I was afraid of reprisals. Nearly 30 years later, I would advise military personnel to go outside your chain of command, if you can.

My first tour in Iraq, one of the base supply NCOs got caught selling US Army property, particularly generators, to the local Iraqis. I knew the guy, and I had told him it was a bad idea, and wasn't right. When our FOB came up short on gennys, I was PISSED, since we couldn't even fully run power to all parts of the FOB. I dropped a detailed letter under the company commander's door, with everything I knew, and 3 days later, MPs were escorting him out of his CONEX, in hand cuffs. Apparently, the generators were right where I said they'd be.

I have been faced with this. I observed theft on the part of my boss. He was well connected in our company. I mulled it over a while. In the end, despite the possible repercussions, I turned him in. His boss and a member of Loss Prevention came in to interview me. They grilled me as though I had done something wrong. I was very uncomfortable afterwards. 1 week later they returned, unbeknownst to me, to interview my boss at a local hotel. They didn't conduct the interview. Instead they sent him home because he was under the influence. A week later they interviewed him at the corporate office. It turned out he was fired for stealing thousands of dollars. I felt vindicated and gratified. His wife came in to pick up his stuff since he wasn't allowed back. She made it perfectly clear that she didn't appreciate me. Despite the weeks of being uncomfortable, I would do it again. He paid the business back over a period of time and the business would incur no further losses from him.

Report it and watch nothing be done about it over and over again. Good ol boy system. I've solved more with violence than I ever have with reporting things correctly up the chain of command. Ive reported sexual assualts, that were swept under the rug. A fellow recruiter I served with, was sleeping with high school students from one of the schools we recruited from. I Think some were under 16.

As an MP, I had to arrest my old platoon sergeant
It was awkward, but I was MPI, and well..thems the breaks

We were flying a FAC mission back in 7/1970 up near the Plain of Jars on Route 7 and got a TIC call to help a SF team getting overrun. We had a couple of Sandys with nothing left on the hardpoints but Nape. By law, we had to ask the Air Attache down in Vientiane for permission to drop it first but my GIF called it in anyway without even asking. I wouldn't have even thought of turning him in. The world has changed dramatically since then. Drugs. Sexual assault. Running illegals over the border. Stealing govt. property. These are things that make you wonder what happened to morals. It used to mean something when you held up your right hand.

I had a bad experience with a New lieutenant when I was a 1SG.

I caught a second lieutenant in my company having sexual relations with a private. I reported him to the company commander and he sent him packing. I later found out that the battalion commander was an acquaintance of his. Several years later I was assigned to another company in the same battalion and this turd was sent to be the commader of the company that he he was having sexual relations with multiple lower enlisted soldiers. He didn’t even get a letter of reprimand when he was caught again, as the commander.
I ruffled feathers reporting him but he wasn’t held to the rules, regulations and standards that any service member should be held to.
Always hold the standard no matter what. Honesty, integrity, honor, and courage will help you through your career. Politics and selfish people are everywhere.

With my last assignment prior to retirement, I worked with a civilian who ordered hundreds of promotional items that were supposed to be given out at various health fairs around the post. There was always something that kept these things from being delivered. Yet each week, more and more items kept showing up, but we were supposed to wait until she said so to give them away. I checked with my NCOIC, got her blessing and started giving the items away at the next health fair.

This section for some reason never had any military supervision before. The supervisor was just shooting from the hip any time she did anything. She tried to retaliate by hiding items on my inventory list. I told her she could do whatever she wants but I am not going to be court martialed because she didn’t want to follow the rules.

Had a few BN CO's that couldn't leave the junior enlisted females alone. I confronted them and it stopped immediately!!!!!