Liar, Liar.

I was in the field for a week and a half. The E5 squad leader in charge out there said he was sending me back and continued to verbally reprimand me for not telling him my problems and explained that he has pull and can do things that other squad leaders and E5s can't. Through all that, he implied that he was trying to help me. Once I got back from the field, my omniscient PSG said that the squad leader sent me back because he was tired of dealing with me. Needless to say, the squad leader is a liar.

Defined

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Private

Speaking to my beloved child (Johnny Rocket, aka Frenchy) and he told me of a time when our hero took to the knife and started betraying people. Frenchy found our protagonist's ID tags on the ground one day and returned them to him. After many thanks and much gratitude, they parted ways. Later in the motor pool, the squad leader needed Frenchy to do something. He called SPC Frenchy over, "Hey, Private Frenchy!". Frenchy immediately corrected him and explained that he's a specialist. The squad leader quickly replied, "Everyone's a private to me out here."

Now, I wonder what that means? I was taught in basic that you call everyone by their rank, so you can't just call everyone a private. Also, "out here"? Does that mean when he's not at the motor pool he calls them something else?

Dress A's

So the MOI changed for the soldier of the month boards. Previously, with every single other one I've ever heard of, the sponsor wears ACUs/duty uniform. Well, the all mighty squad leader didn't read the whole MOI, which said that sponsors will wear class A's. Needless to say, he showed up in ACUs. He worried and fretted the whole time until he went in.

This whole scenario is humorous because it's really no big deal, but apparently he was afraid of getting in huge trouble. So worried, I think he wore a hole in the floor from pacing back and forth.

The Room Inspection

One of the first encounters with the squad leader was when he inspected my room. He came in & I immediately lit up a cigarette. He chuckled in a nervous kind of way and said, "Not smart, smoking in the room when I'm here." I asked why, because it was in the SOP that we're allowed to as long as our roommate doesn't mind. He began to question himself, at which time our favorite corporal grabbed the SOP off the back of the door and read the portion that states we're allowed to smoke in the room.

I don't have much on this one, except that that's one of the only times I've been right and able to back it up with paperwork.

Witness

On 3 September 2009 at approximately 0630 I witnessed the squad leader call for his A team leader during a swamp run beggining across the street from the combatives pit on the corner of Bellrichard Avenue and Texas Avenue and ending at the same. As he yelled out the Corporal's name, each person in front of him was passing it along. I was behind the A team leader and explained to him that the squad leader was calling for him. The first two times I yelled for him, I got no response. The third time he slowed down and said that he was, "ignoring him". I also heard a comment about "carrying his dick". I turned around to see what the squad leader needed and waved everyone else through. The squad leader told me he needed the A team leader and I explained to him that he was ignoring him. The A team leader then came running back. When the squad leader confronted him about ignoring everyone yelling for him he got very defensive and eventually both of them were yelling. SSG Roit was attempting to control CPL Kang and CPL Kang was being nothing but disrespectful to the squad leader. By this time they had escalated and I had kept running. Most of the squad admitted to hearing them yelling at each other. I am unaware of any physical contact between the two. As we finished the swamp run, they both came running up the street.

In retrospect I regret this post ever taking place. It helped the squad leader which I refuse to ever do. . . ever again.