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LCpl Emanuel W. - I felt the boot more than a few times... no yellow stress cards here!

LT Brad McInnis - What's this "stress card" you speak of, sir? Is that something that tells you that the Hummer is about to give out on you if you don't get it to Motor T, now? Or maybe it's like the military version of a Hallmark card you give to someone who's stressing out so they can cheer the f**k up and carry on like the rest of us? LOL
I heard those things were white though.

No, apparently in boot camp, for a time they gave recruits a yellow stress card so they could have a time out if things got bad... When I was a department head, one of my sailors tried to give me one because he was having a bad day. I thought it was a joke, and they insisted it was real. Had to check with the Chiefs (NCO's) to see if I was being punked. I wasn't. Took the kids stress card, threw it over the side, and told him that sh@t doesn't fly at sea. Then I told him to get back to cleaning the bilges...

I tell people that there's no "time out" when the crap hits the fan. The enemy doesn't care that your psyche is getting out of whack. In fact, they count on it! A few years ago, I spoke to a SFC of NG in my county, he had an interesting way of handling a PVT wanting a time out. This was in Motor T Repair and there were multiple Priority 1's. A PVT came up to him with his stress card, so he told the whole shop that the work had to be done on that day. Even the baby PVT's work while he was relaxing. That was the last time he heard "stress card" from anyone in his shop.
The creating of this stress card was THE WORSE idea that came into being! All it does is create more stress within their unit. In essence, the stress card lives up to its name. It doesn't relieve one's stress, it TRANSFERS it! Basically, that stress just does a full circle.