I fired a Marine once. My Captain told me "this is the Marine Corps you can't fire someone". I said "well he doesn't work for me any more but he still works for you". "You need to find him some where to show up every day." "If he comes back here I'll have him counting stones in the parking lot." I was in charge of a unit armory with 2000+ firearms and this guy could not be trusted. Some times you do have to get rid of the bad ones.
This guy eventually went from an E4 Corporal down to an E1 Private through reductions in rank. He did have his congressman do an investigation into myself, the Captain and another SSgt in the unit for discrimination. The investigation took up a lot of the investigators time and they found no discrimination. So no matter where you go getting rid of the bad ones can be a pain, Mike.
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