Posted on Aug 7, 2017
How should someone handle a disrespectful PFC (as a SPC)?
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When I was in my first company, I had problems with a PFC in a different squad who thought it was perfectly fine to openly disrespect me even though I outranked him. I couldn't correct him, as his squad leader wasn't very fond of me and gladly let it happen. Now I've switched companies, but the same PFC continues to approach me with disrespect and threatens to get his leadership if I defend myself
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So let him get his leadership. You have a Junior Troop being openly disrespectful to a senior rank. If his leadership sticks behind that kind of behavior, then you've already identified an even bigger problem. Toxic leadership breeds future toxic leaders.
He is approaching you to start trouble, so sure, get his leadership involved. He needs to be put back in place.
He is approaching you to start trouble, so sure, get his leadership involved. He needs to be put back in place.
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If their leadership is allowing this to happen then take YOUR leadership to them and their leadership. If it continues after that little pow wow, take it up the chain until you get it resolved. The worst thing you can do is nothing. This will fester until it takes over an entire unit. As the Bible says, "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump."
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Write that soldier up. And do it every time he does it. And if his squad leader attempts to sway your division in anyway then write him up as well. It is unbecoming of an NCO or Staff NCO to allow those under his command to be insubordinate to anyone of higher rank. But first your direct Chaim of Command to see if that resolves the issue. But no one can stop you from writing a subordinate up.
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Cpl Thomas Kifer
Let me just add a note to my previous comment. Regardless of your rank, always try to present yourself as the next rank you hope to achieve. If your a LCpl, discipline yourself as a Cpl. an so on. Its not Eno GH to just achieve the necessary points or completing NCO school. You want to fit the part. And give the respect to your subordinates that you demand for yourself. No one can make a leader out of an individual that doesn't see him/herself as one.
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