CPT Chris Loomis 436776 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I have been heard stating that &quot;the most basic lesson a Soldier needs to learn is: Keep your mouth shut and do what the ((BEEEP)) you&#39;re told.&quot;<br /><br />I don&#39;t say this in order to lean into autocratic leadership. I say it because I believe it is the catalyst for self discipline and conformity to the military environment. <br /><br />Q: What are your thought? <br /><br />Q: Do you have a different &quot;basic rule?&quot;<br /><br />Any and all thoughts welcome. <br /><br />Please and Thank You. 2015-01-26T12:44:41-05:00 CPT Chris Loomis 436776

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I have been heard stating that &quot;the most basic lesson a Soldier needs to learn is: Keep your mouth shut and do what the ((BEEEP)) you&#39;re told.&quot;<br /><br />I don&#39;t say this in order to lean into autocratic leadership. I say it because I believe it is the catalyst for self discipline and conformity to the military environment. <br /><br />Q: What are your thought? <br /><br />Q: Do you have a different &quot;basic rule?&quot;<br /><br />Any and all thoughts welcome. <br /><br />Please and Thank You.

2015-01-26T12:44:41-05:00 2015-01-26T12:44:41-05:00 Capt Richard I P. 436832

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Wow the most basic? <br /><br />That our job is to kill, to protect those that we love from those who would kill them.

2015-01-26T13:11:01-05:00 2015-01-26T13:11:01-05:00 COL Jason Smallfield, PMP, CFM, CM 436838

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Basic rule = Golden rule.

2015-01-26T13:15:13-05:00 2015-01-26T13:15:13-05:00 SGT Private RallyPoint Member 436960

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Keep your head on a swivel. Situational awareness

2015-01-26T14:08:47-05:00 2015-01-26T14:08:47-05:00 Cpl Private RallyPoint Member 437145

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>"Watch, Listen &amp; Learn!"

2015-01-26T15:42:17-05:00 2015-01-26T15:42:17-05:00 CPT Jack Durish 437299

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I will support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and bear true faith and allegiance to the same. (Still true though I left active duty a few decades ago)<br /><br />That I will obey the "lawful" orders of the officers appointed over me. (We need to make sure they understand to distinguish between a lawful and an unlawful order - see part one about the Constitution).<br /><br />Everything else is subordinate to that oath. Everything!

2015-01-26T17:25:21-05:00 2015-01-26T17:25:21-05:00 CSM Charles Hayden 437701

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>2LT Chris Loomis, Wall poster, Ft Knox 1953: "There was a wise old Owl who sat in a oak, the less he spoke, the more he saw; the more he saw, the more he knew, oh Soldier, be like that Owl".

2015-01-26T21:17:36-05:00 2015-01-26T21:17:36-05:00 1SG Private RallyPoint Member 437842

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>What is my job/role and what is the job of the Soldier next to me.

2015-01-26T22:23:52-05:00 2015-01-26T22:23:52-05:00 Sgt Packy Flickinger 437851

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Discipline.

2015-01-26T22:27:22-05:00 2015-01-26T22:27:22-05:00 CPL Jay Freeman 637421

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Just because you didn't go to college doesn't mean you are the dumbest in the room. I was with the CO and we where talking I said something to him and he said I didn't think of it that way. Another instant we where in basic and doing a screen in which the Sargent told us we would never win as 2 platoons where heading for us and would kill us all I asked the Sargent a question and he said it has never been done before and let us do 8th we won it was the first time. That has ever happened even the drill Sargent was impressed.

2015-05-02T23:35:16-04:00 2015-05-02T23:35:16-04:00 PO1 Jerome Newland 5015563

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Pain let&#39;s you know that you are still alive.

2019-09-12T03:44:58-04:00 2019-09-12T03:44:58-04:00 2015-01-26T12:44:41-05:00