[jester]

YES!!!!

I recall one instance where after a patrol in hostile territory one not well liked person was trying to scam out of his task and was playing kiss up. <He often stole credit for actions done by others.> It ended up with a freind of mine grabbing my SAW, and ended up in a tense situation between my freind and this dude in our hootch. One with a SAW, the other with a 203.

Another instance, a character was taking more than his share of water. It was a regular thing. A time when we had 1 liter of water resupply a day. No one cared when he showed up with a busted lip. Other than a few comments such as, "too bad" or "tough sh!t" or "serves ya right."

Another time, a constant whiner who had a very light pack and always cried about everything. As a result, he ended up being a pack mule for the squad because we said so.

It is usualy the problem children whom get this sort of treatment. Your shirkers, kiss ups, slackers, theives and such.

But, other times, it is just a personality clash, which is on going and has caried over from months, years or in many cases the entire enlistment where things build.

And as I said, in close confines for months on end with the same faces, tempers get short. Or you just want to get away from them for a period.

And of course those bucking for rank by virtue of acting like they are some kind of boss when they aren't and never take initiative unless someone is around to see. Then they get blown off, which in turn they become pissy which often resulting in going nose to nose with words or further.

However, does this degrade from the mission? Nope, that is put aside when it is time to do the job. You have to work together. But, you do not have to like each other.

I seem to recall reading somewhere, I forget where maybe American Civil War, or WWI, where a units history did not match its members diaries, or interviewed accounts and courtsmartial records. The units diaries had sections litteraly torn out. I think this occured with the French Mutiny of WWI and with some UK units in WWI as well.

One must remember. Commands tend to try and hide such things, promotion to the higher ranks is often political and if such occurances are reported, well that shows the unit and commanders in a bad light, as well as the whole morale thing for other units and the folks backhome.

I mean history is littered with things that were burried. Like, the black troops who were loading ammo on the docks of the West Coast of WWI at I want to say Lemore, there was an explosion and many of the troops were charged with mutiny because they refused to move the munitions for fear of it exploding. Or the LSTs that exploded in Pear Harbor in the preperation for the invasion of Siapan or Okinawa. Or, the loss of the ships when they were attacked by the German attack boats as they prepped for D-Day, the fratricide of the Airborne troops durring the invasion of Sicily. Generals hate bad press.