What is an effective and creative corrective action for a soldier left a weapon unattended?

Tie a boot string to his weapon and the other end to their body. A loose weapon is something usually seen in basic training... minor punishment maximum training. In a real environment, with or without danger, look for another branch.

We had a trainee do that in basic. The drill sergeants made him low crawl for an entire day with all his gear.

Dig a two man fighting position. Emphasizing on how he must keep his weapon handy at all times as he does not have cover yet

We had a guy do this in Afghanistan and our LTC had him carry around the 249 for a week

Make him carry his weapon at all times during duty hours for a week. If you can't sign out a real weapon for the week the give him a "rubber duck".

Savanna I have been thinking about this and thinking about this, understand I am retired now so take it for what its worth. I am assuming this is a salvageable soldier, if not beat him to death with a bat, then pitch him in the dumpster at the gas station.

If salvageable, beat him with a bat, not till dead and not till broken forever, but pretty damn mangled. Then do all the other stuff suggested. Explain that you spared his life for the simple reason you thought he was salvageable. However, if you had to readdress this issue the outcome would be different.

Savanna understand I am not being serious, I understand we cant kill or maim our people. Maybe sit on this one just incase some day we can. Kidding just kidding

Make him tie it to his leg...we had this one shitbag named Hall who we did this to, the idiot actually walked off and started dragging the thing with him...they call us crayon eaters for a reason

Have him conduct a sensitive items check every four hours of all of the platoon's sensitive items for 72 hours.

The sensitive items checks are conducted in full gear, minus ruck.

And his weapon (or rubber duck) is dummy corded to him the entire 72 hours.

If he misses one item on the sensitive items check, the 72 hours starts over from zero.

duct tape to his hand, have him sit down with an MP and do a detailed report of how he lost it, and what the charges could amount to, the time he may have served if it was believed to be intentional. If you have a contact in legal have him sit down with a prosecutor so he can get a feel for what would be heading his way.

...Sorry Savanna another story one of my trips to Afghanistan was working with the Dutch SF guys. They had a brand new compound real close to the airfield. My team house was right on the airfield. I remember coming out of the shower/latrine one morning with my shaving bag and towel wrapped around me and the outside of the latrine was an M16 leaning on the building. I stopped and looked around saw nobody. Some young guy walked out I ask him if it was his, he said nope but may know who's it is. I told him he could get one of the unit's NCO to come get it now our I would take it with me. In a minute about 3 guys came running up and gave all the information and collected the weapon. Hey accidents happen, but you have got to learn.


Good luck CPL Savanna Sansone