i heard a staff sargeant chew out a sargeant when i was in the Marines. the staff sargeant done it in front...

Question

of lower ranking Marines. the sargeant told the staff sargeant that it was wrong for him to chew him out in front of lower ranking Marines. is this true?

Answer 1

Yes. The Staff Sergeant chould have pulled the Sergeant aside and discussed things. The Sergeant is still the lower ranking marines NCO. (Non comissioned Officer) he is in charge of them, so making him look bad in front of them can hurt his leadership capabilities and effectiveness

Answer 2

Even in the army, that's wrong. Not wrong according to rules, but that makes you look like a s**t bag NCO in front of your soldiers. That's completely unprofessional and like someone said earlier, it hurts your authority in that your soldiers think lower of you. The staff sergeant should have taken him somewhere else and been professional about it. If it was something crazy like he pointed a loaded weapon at somebody, then I can understand it. But if it was a little mistake, and the SSG went off just cuz he was having a bad day, then that is completely unacceptable, and as the Sergeant, he had every right to talk to the SSG later on and tell him that he found his actions to be very unprofessional. Of course, that's the marines though, I'm not sure how they are about that kind of stuff, I heard they take rank more seriously than they do in the army. Either way, I think it could have been handled better

Answer 3

It is usually considered unprofessional. If someone makes a mistake and only need to be told whats wrong and how to fix it, they are usually taken aside and the problem is solved. If someone does something like challenge the authority of those above him (as an example) in front of his/her subordinates, something they know to be unacceptable, then they need to be corrected on the spot in front of whoever saw him being insubordinate. However, sometimes mommy and daddy didn't raise Joe all that well and he'll need an *** chewing to know you're serious, but most situations are usually handled in a professional manner, not in a "Full Metal Jacket" *** chewing kind of way.

Answer 4

Tact. Tact is doing the right thing at the right time so as to prevent the disintegration of respect and leadership. By doing that in front of lower ranking individuals the SSGT demonstrated ZERO tact. Oh it happens, but those men/women are not using a skill that they are supposed to posses. If I were the Sgt in this situation I would have asked him outside and told him off.

Answer 5

It is absolutely true... It's unprofessional and it also sets a bad example for the junior enlisted. I was in the Air Force and I have seen a Technical sergeant (E6) get reamed out by higher ranked Sergeants for doing exactly what you just said. Two wrongs don't make a right but they sure made an example out of the E6.

Answer 6

After reading the other responses it reminds me of when i got chewed out in front of my troops once. My boss then, a TSgt, had us doing some unnamed task totally wrong. When I (a SSgt.) tried to explain what was wrong I was told to shut up and follow orders. Now what we were told to do was not illegal or immoral so don't worry, i didn't violate any laws in fulfilling his order but my troops knew it was wrong when I told them what we had to do. when we were done the TSgt, forgetting I told him of his earlier error, began to berate me in front of the whole flight. I took it like a man and my troops knew it wasn't me being wrong. Me getting chewed out gave me more credit and the TSgt less. Sometimes a public chewing can work the other way.

Answer 7

absolutely true. Such treatment undermines the Sgt's ability to lead his subordinate Marine's. Somebody needs to take that shitbag SSgt to the woodshed and put a boot in his unsatisfactory ***.
semper fi

Answer 8

It depend on the reason for the berating.
If the Sergeant was doing something was doing was undermining discipline then perhaps making an example of him was correct.
Since I do not know I won't speculate.

Answer 9

It is unprofessional to chew out an NCO in front of his troops. If you can, you should take him to the side or in an office.

Answer 10

Not knowing what lead to this butt chewing I will side with my brother SSG. If the Sgt. thought it appropriate to open his mouth while being dressed down he was also dead wrong.

So, What did the Sgt. do to piss of the SSG to that point?

Put lives at risk? Disobey an earlier order? or was the SSG just "that way"

SSG US Army 73-82