What's the worst disciplinary detail you've ever been saddled with?

CH (MAJ) William Beaver — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 22:49:08 -0400

If you ever see a Soldier cutting grass with scissors, cleaning a floor with a toothbrush, or moving a pile of rocks with a trenching tool - you know he or she did something wrong. Have you ever gotten into trouble and been given a disciplinary detail? If so, feel like sharing ? You don't have to divulge what you did wrong. But what detail were you given ?

Response by SFC Mark Merino made Apr 22 at 2015 11:02 PM

SFC Mark Merino — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:02:56 -0400

Our CSM's floors couldn't get any shinier with the rash of Art 15s we had so he had them build perfect fighting positions. If you were really bad, you got the 60 pit.

I also saw a battalion of M2A2 Bradleys with armor all'd road wheels, track pads, and the entire vehicle baby oiled. They looked glorious!

When we could smoke in the barracks, the CSM saw a soldier throw down a cigarette butt. The choice was simple, deal with the paperwork, or get out of it by filling a 13 gallon plastic bag with cigarette butts by Monday morning.....thanks for the old school trips down memory lane! CH (MAJ) William Beaver

Response by CH (MAJ) William Beaver made Apr 22 at 2015 11:06 PM

CH (MAJ) William Beaver — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:06:48 -0400

Builds character

Response by PO1 Cleve Ikaika Waiwaiole made Apr 22 at 2015 11:29 PM

PO1 Cleve Ikaika Waiwaiole — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:29:27 -0400

I dropped a firing pin while cleaning my M16 so I had to stay probably for 6 hours and clean weapons. They made me clean all the 9mm pistols since they were the dirtiest of them all since the officers and Chiefs didnt clean their weapons and made "side deals" with the GM's Hahhaha! To make it worse it was winter in Gulfport Mississippi. 30degrees with probably 100% humidity lol.

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 22 at 2015 11:30 PM

CPT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:30:14 -0400

When my exhusband was in AIT, many many years ago, he got caught smoking. The DS was very creative with her corrective training. He spent the morning collecting cigarette butts from around post, and spent the afternoon arranging them in brigade sized formation. he then spent the rest of his evening and night executing facing movements of the Marlboro Brigade, and pulling security on them with the help of the fire guard. Followed by another day of facing movements.

Response by 1LT William Clardy made Apr 22 at 2015 11:35 PM

1LT William Clardy — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:35:56 -0400

Mine wasn't too bad. A bunch of us got summary Article 15s after a health and welfare inspection, so we had to completely strip and rewax the orderly room floor every night for 2 weeks. The CQ was instructed that he would be on the hook for finishing the job if the floor did not appear adequately shiny when the first sergeant arrived the following morning.

The really ironic part for me was that we had to use P-38s to scrape up the wax -- my offense had been to inadequately conceal the old gravity-blade knife I had been using to strip the floor in my barracks room.

Response by SGT John Rauch made Apr 22 at 2015 11:51 PM

SGT John Rauch — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:51:57 -0400

I never personally experienced it, but I did see a guy standing on the side walk of Gruber rd on Ft Bragg wearing a sandwich board that said very boldly I AM ALWAYS LATE FOR FORMATION

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 24 at 2015 12:02 AM

MSG Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 00:02:23 -0400

Picking dead leaves out of the lava rocks where the space was 1 foot between the bush and the wall

Response by PO1 Charles Norris made Jun 25 at 2021 12:59 PM

PO1 Charles Norris — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 12:59:54 -0400

I was given the honor of cleaning out padeyes with a plastic spoon. But, to be fair, that was pretty standard for any sort of foul up. The number to be cleaned out was based on how bad you messed up. I’ve seen guys clean a whole flight line.

Response by SPC Roger Dunn made Jun 25 at 2021 3:28 PM

SPC Roger Dunn — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 15:28:33 -0400

Wile in basic training at Fort Leonard Wood. I had to shovel snow off the sidewalk were we had formation,during a snow storm and could not come in till ALL snow off tbe side walk. I also thought it would be funny in week 1 to walk up to the NCO's office and dropmy pants and said SGT. You want to fuckme nowor later. They toldme to join the ARMYand fucked every day. Lets just say I was doing push ups all day and night.

Response by Sgt Dale Briggs made Jun 25 at 2021 4:23 PM

Sgt Dale Briggs — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 16:23:09 -0400

Gunny was creative, but the worst part he made was he sure your punishment was highly visible so your peers could mock you and call you names, bust your balls. Peer pressure was greater than Gunnys punishment and he knew it.

Response by SFC Reginald Davis made Mar 29 at 2022 7:52 PM

SFC Reginald Davis — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 19:52:14 -0400

Back in 1968 cleaning the 5 gal drums full of human you know that stuff that you can smell 4 to 5 miles away.

Response by SPC James Ward made Sep 14 at 2022 9:12 AM

SPC James Ward — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 09:12:36 -0400

I personally had the pleasure of sweeping the streets on post with a push broom. Great exercise! Not...lol
A soldier from another unit had to mow the parade field with a push mower. They attatched two flashlights so he could continue after sundown.
Painting curbs and rocks while on Border Duty was another great way to pass the time.

Response by SGT James Wright made Jan 11 at 2023 11:57 AM

SGT James Wright — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 11:57:11 -0500

I was stationed overseas at the time. I didn’t see eye to eye with this particularly overzealous SFC who would correct soldiers for a deficiency whether it was uniform or otherwise. As time went on the commander did not intercede after numerous reports of this particular individual not being reigned in,I had about had enough of the soldiers in my direct charge essentially being harassed by this NCO. One day I noticed one of this E-7’s soldiers out of uniform, so I discreetly said something to them, and they quickly made the correction. I didn’t realize that his boss was watching us, he came over and got up in my face and said I had no business correcting his soldiers so I needed to back off and mind my own business. I had enough of his arrogance at that point ( mind you, I had talked to the commander, the 1sg and the Lt’s on numerous occasions prior to this and they just blew it off and said that’s just the way he is) I was all in at this point. I then told this guy he needed to put his sleeves down because per reg it was not time for us to be wearing them up. His response was to get out of his face, I refused, I had enough of his bullying my soldiers and not saying anything to him because he was a Sr NCO that nobody would correct because he had a very strong character. It went from the correction to a shouting match, which led to the commander,1sg, and Lt’s all coming out to see what was happening. They made us break apart and go our separate ways, but I was not through with it because the command said to leave him be! I was the training NCO for the unit, I went back to my office and found the regs on the issue and showed them to my 1sg and then went directly to the SrNCO who was being the jerk and I slapped the reg down in front of him and told him “read it” he told me again to get out of his face I refused because at the time all the upper echelon were I. The room and I wanted them to witness the meeting. We went back and forth several times in a short period of time before the commander and 1sg broke things up. After this incident there were others with other NCO’s from his side that were harassing me and my soldiers and nothing was accomplished. An IG inspection was upon us and so I decided to let them know about the situation to see if they would poo poo the issue too. I waited in ranks that day until the CSM and his commander came through the ranks asking if we were ok or if we needed anything or any problems to work on… that was my cue to let them know about the unending altercations and harassment going on.I told the CSM and they immediately pulled me out of ranks and into to CO’s office. I told them what was going on, they finished their inspection and they left, but few weeks later all the NCO’s were called into the commanders office to let us know we would be having remedial training every morning before PT we would be required to write up what we would be teaching for the day, we had one hour each morning to do training before everyone came in for PT for about two months. Never did we have altercations in the midst of the upper echelon again.