My How the Army is Changing

I'm going to run a scenario by you guys and gals that shows how much the Army is changing. I will probably catch hell for this if the wrong people see it but oh well, them's the breaks right? Ha, I can only catch hell for 10 more months then this decade long career comes to an end.

OK, here it goes. I'm a Platoon Sergeant, and one of my section leaders is this E5 promotable that I have a lot of problems with in the past, like lying, late to formations, more lying, failure to meet suspense...the list can go on forever. I have tried numerous times on numerous occasions to get a good old Article 15 slapped on her, but to no avail due to weak commanders who for some reason CAN'T DO THEIR JOB AND PUNISH A DESERVING SOLDIER....whoops, caps.

Here goes the rest of the story before I digress any more. It is a Friday, and I call this NCO up to tell her and her soldiers to make sure they are at formation at 15:30, to which she replies that she isn't coming to formation because she has to do counseling and CTT testing. I respond that I don't care what she thinks she has to do, she can plan it around formation as it is a Friday and the section has to receive a mandatory safety brief before the weekend. She tells me NO, to which I tell her again that it is an order. She once again says no, and tells me she is hanging up to call the First Sergeant. This is one thing the First Sergeant did that upset me...he told her that only she had to come in and not the section. Well, after formation SGT pain in my ass and me go into the 1SG's office and 1SG proceeds to reiterate to her that I am her Platoon Sergeant and she will follow orders without question unless said orders are immoral, unethical, or illegal. SGT pain in the ass responded that the order was un-reasonable. Boo Hoo, cry me a river, 99 percent of what the Army does is un-reasonable. Well, she keeps arguing with the 1SG until he finally lays the hammer on her and tells her that is how it is and to move out.

Well, how many of you are willing to bet that this NCO will disobey another order? Tune in for part 2 to find out the rest of the story!