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Call signs are often assigned to individuals, but those individuals are not always the actual guy answering to his call sign. For example, when I carried the radio for our platoon leader, he was "Mike-43," but it was rare for him to actually be the one talking on the radio. Even if he did, he would still call himself "Mike-43." On the radio, he and I were indistinguishable. Very occasionally, though, someone would want to talk to him personally. Then they would ask for "Mike-43 Actual" or "Mike-43 Alpha." And in those cases, he would call back with "Mike-43 Actual."("43", by the way, is pronounced "four-tree," not "forty-three" or "four-three.")(And "Mike-43 Alpha" or "Mike-43 Actual" would be written "M43A" in any radio logs [which weren't usually kept, but sometimes on staff duty or CQ.])

Not showing! At the Infantry Officer Basic course, some 26 years ago, a 2LT from Puerto Rico was showing up to many formations late or not at all. His Uncle was the Adjutant General of the Puerto Rico National guard so he thought his s£\+ didn't stink. The Captain he was assigned to (a mentor/coach/counselor) ordered him to sign in with the staff duty officer every waking hour, on the hour all weekend. This was to teach him the importance of being on time. Losing his weekend helped drive home the lesson.A buddy and I were assigned as staff duty officers (SDO) on Saturday. The guy was a few minutes late a couple of times in the morning, but, we let him sign in on the hour. Then he asked us to sign in for him so he could go to the mall in town. We told him no way. He went anyhow and missed 2 sign ins. We logged it. We went off duty the next morning and later the Sunday SDOs called us and told us he had “modified” the logs by writing a replacement page where he “signed” in every hour. He also signed our names.Monday morning we reported this to his Captain. They pulled him up short and were going to kick him out for forging the log. He decided to pull us down too and pointed out that we had initialled his late sign ins on Saturday morning. We admitted this and were threatened with being kicked out. When we stood firm he was sent home to Puerto Rico and my buddy and I were “disciplined”. I was taken off the Commandant's list (top 10 %). We was also told that the Commander admired our standing up for what was right.The liar's Uncle pulled strings and he came back to IOBC later. A buddy in the PRNG told me he was such a malingering POS his uncle kicked him out.

When you are sick you don't get time off, you are relieved of duty and assigned the duty of rest and recovery.Now I feel like for grunts like me it's a tad different (others might have different experiences). There was a couple of times where I encountered this but I wasn't the one who was sick, it was usually my battle buddy.One time in Benning I was on staff duty just casually watching for someone important to walk by. My buddy was writing shit down on the staff duty report log, all in all it was a regular day at staff duty except he wasn't feeling good for the past few days. So about a half an hour into duty, a wild 1LT appears in dress uniform. He was infantry like us and has a few qualifications (air assault, airborne, ranger, etc.). We greet the officer and he looks at my buddy, who is kind of red in the face.“what's up man? Do i look pretty?”“No, sir. I've just been feeling a little sick, sir.”“You gonna die?”“No, sir.”“Then you're not sick. Carry on.”He didn't go to sick hall or anything. He just went on about his duties and eventually got better over a few more miserable days.Another time I was helping out with cleaning some 240s and SAWs with a group of guys (still in Benning) and one guy gets up and runs to the grass where he hacks his fucking guts out. We were all looking at each other like ‘what's wrong with him?’ and his battle buddy told us he might have eaten something from the DFAC his stomach didnt agree with. A random NCO comes out of nowhere and asked what was going on. His battle buddy filled the NCO in on the details.“dude, go to fucking sick hall, man. I'll take you.” the NCO says as he practically rushes the sick soldier to a pup truck. He was back the next day ready for duty.It really depends on just how sick you are. Like in scenario A, my buddy pushed through it. Scenario B, he was taken to get help.