Technical Sergeant Geraldine Lovely Is an Idiot

I just want to add my 2 cents to this story real quick being that I can directly relate to this situation being that I’m a 13 year active duty US Army vet who was once the same rank of as this Tech Sgt., which is an E-6 (in the Army, E6’s are known as Staff Sergeants, SSG). So I too can relate to the struggles of Tech Sgt. Lovely from the standpoint of dealing with subordinates who possessed attitudes and showed a lack of respect for my rank and authority. But the difference between Tech Sgt. Lovely and myself is that I dealt with shit like this from soldiers of all racial backgrounds, male & female. I had white, black, Hispanic, Asian, and every other flavor under the rainbow type of soldiers whom had some type of attitude. I had male soldiers with attitudes, female soldiers with attitudes…hell, I myself was once a lower enlisted soldier with an attitude. Quite honestly, that’s pretty much the way things go when you are lower enlisted. You either walk around with some sort of attitude because you are lower ranking and you are constantly tasked with doing the shittiest and mundane type of jobs or senior NCOs (Non-Commissioned Officer) just presume you to be a lower ranking soldier with an attitude because that’s the culture of the military, for better or for worse. Whether or not you actually had a legit attitude was another issue, but the presumption was always there and more than likely the presumption was purely based simply off of one’s rank and the job requirements that came with the rank. Rarely did I ever encounter a soldier with a legit attitude for simply being in the military.

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