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Edited on Sun Aug-08-04 11:41 AM by haele
If he or she just "walks". Better to try and find a "legal" way out of the manditory event, such as watch/duty swapping (most common), medical (not recommended unless there really is a medical problem) or finding out from a sympathetic senior NCO (if he or she has one) if there's something else that can be done instead.
A lot of it depends on what the military member was not wanting to do. If it's something like the PRT (Physical Readiness Training) - the only thing he or she might be able to do is to reschedule it to a more convenient date. Certain events are strict requirements linked to readiness, and can't be avoided. A scheduled duty day, watch, or a command inspection can be worked around (I've done it myself), but it will take some doing and some sacrifice - like standing someone else's watch. If it's slacking from normal duties that's being asked about - well, slacking is another issue altogether. If the military member doesn't want to do the weekly field day, work party or anything else that's part of his or her regular duties that might seem personally degrading - personally, I've got very little sympathy. We've all had to clean heads, sweep, mop, and buff decks, paint, and take out ripping bags of ripe garbage - even weenie brass bars did during OCS(and it takes the rare leader amongst them to admit it). That's part of the enlistment contract, you know - because, ultimatly, out in the field or on the ship, we can't depend on hired civilians for "janitoral service" or "general handyman" so we all have to do for ourselves if we don't want to live in dangerous squalor. If one is in the military, one has got to be prepared to deal with the little degrading things that might mean the difference between living or dying in the ten-thousand to one chance that an emergancy might require them to be done. And yes, a "well cleaned and stowed space" shipboard or the ability to handle being flinging oneself a "nasty, icky situation" like a sewer or irrigation ditch without a second thought can be the difference between life and death when all goes dark and one finds oneself under attack.
Ultimatly it comes down to this - what price is the military member willing to pay - because s/he will be required to pay a price in time and effort, at the very least - to not do what is considered manditory? Will it be worth it?
Hope it helps some.
Haele
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