People Share Their Most Dynamic Stories Of Revenge

Jack: “What did you call me?”

Me: “Uhm, Jack?”

Jack: “I think you meant Lieutenant Jack, SIR.”

Me: “…So would you be on base today?”

Jack: “Yes, and you’d better show me some respect there, PRIVATE OP, was it?”

Me: “Thank you for confirming your status. Goodbye.” -hangs up-

I was seething. This guy had yet to go for his commissioning ceremony and yet demanded to be called “Sir?” According to protocol, a trainee had only a temporary rank.

By virtue of having to be trained by NCOs of a lower but permanent rank, all temporary rank assignments were officially given zero weight next to a permanent rank. As such, even a goshdarn Private held a ‘higher’ rank than an Officer-Trainee.

Unofficially, most NCOs and enlisted would not dare to offend a soon-to-be Officer, for fear of being condemned to the crapper. But not your boy OP, I took no crap from anyone.

On Jack’s first day, he came in and immediately called a special meeting, ranting about how there was a lack of discipline in the section, and he had already personally witnessed a “goshdarn private” disrespecting him.

To start off, he instituted daily morning drills and exercises. Foot drills. In a service and maintenance unit. Seriously. But as per usual, the other senior NCOs started with the ring-kissing and lauded his ‘initiative’ as a “great idea,” promising to look into this “goshdarn private.”After a quick glance at the duty roster, I was called in by THREE senior NCOs, who furiously demanded to know what happened. Being on good terms with them, they dropped the act once I was in the private briefing room and I related the whole incident to them, including how I said my ‘pleases’ and ‘thank yous’ as per the usual script.