Sergeant Doesn't Believe Military Doctor's Orders, Gets Proven Wrong

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Eric Lund
Nov 18, 2021 9:00 AM EST

It stands to reason that when you're asked to respect the orders of a doctor who's also lieutenant colonel, that you do that. But this sergeant didn't want to believe that hundreds and hundreds of bug bites could lead to a substantive health concern, so things shook out in a less graceful way than they had to. For another intriguing tale, here's the military wife Karen who demanded salutes and got mocked.

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    Font - r r/MaliciousCompliance - Posted by u/QuesterrSA 19 hours ago O 5 4 3 2 "You can't get quarters from bug bites!" oc L When I was in the Army, my unit had a training day one day where we did tactical movements and close quarters combat with paintball guns. It was pretty fun. Except it was in Texas in the middle of summer in a training area full of tall grass that I ended up crawling around in a lot. I didn't notice any problems until a couple hours later when I was getting ready to head ho
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    Font - I pulled my boots off and my rolled my pants up and my feet and legs up to my mid thigh were swollen and covered in hundreds of angry red welts. Apparently I'd crawled through a nest of Chiggers (tiny biting bugs common in America that are apparently called "Trombiculidae" officially) and they'd gone to town on my legs, bad enough to provoke an allergic reaction. I drive myself to the emergency room at the base hospital and while I'm waiting to be seen and feeling more and more terrible b
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    Font - The doc had never seen anything like it and I ended up getting a massive doze of steroids, antibiotics, and inflammatories, all hospital grade and with serious side effects of their own, as well as 4 days of quarters, the military equivalent of being told to stay home and don't come in to work. My girlfriend came and picked me up from the hospital and drove me home because at that point I was in no state to drive myself between the allergic reaction and the meds I was on to treat it. On t
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    Font - Now she was one of the most incompetent First Sergeants I ever worked with during my time in the Army. Constantly making terrible decision, mindlessly green lighting whatever terrible decision our equally incompetent Captain came up with, and micromanaging people unnecessarily. She tell me that my Quarters has been revoked by the Captain and that I have to come in the following day. I tell her that I'm holding orders in my hand from a doctor who's also a Lieutenant Colonel that I'm suppos
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    Font - I tried to explain that I'd had an allergic reaction, but she wasn't having it, insisting I was a liar and a bad soldier because of it. I was to be at formation the next morning at 0900 (because of the extensive exercise we all got at the training event, they'd cancelled PT for the day) with my "supposed" quarters slip and they would decide then if they were going to punish me more for trying to pull "this stunt". Cue Malicious Compliance
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    Font - Okay, I wore my PT uniform (a t shirt and shorts) rather than our fatigues the next day and had my girlfriend drive me in (I was still to messed up from the bites and meds to drive). I figured if I was going to get in trouble anyways, being in the wrong uniform would be the least of my worries. But my bare legs instead showed off the literal hundreds of now angrily red, almost purple or black in some cases, huge welts on my legs. The skin was more welt than not by the next morning.
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    Font - And I walked up showing off that rather horrific sight to my entire company of more than a hundred enlisted, NCO's, and officers. Literally everyone who sees me is like "Jesus f 'king Christ, QuesterrSA! What the f..k happened to your legs?!?" It's clear to every single person in the company that I am actually legitimately having an allergic reaction just by sight alone. The First Sergeant hears people making a ruckus, sees me, and turns bright red, knowing she fl..ed up when she hears me
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    Font - MistraloysiusMithrax · 19h Man I was hoping you'd go back to the doc with a question like "Hey Lt Col, are non- medical 1st Sergeants allowed to countermand your medical orders or aren't they supposed to respect your superior knowledge, specialization, and rank?" Vote Reply Share QuesterrSA OP - 19h At that point, I just wanted to go to bed. That would have required driving all the way back across town (I lived off base) and waiting for him to have time at the hospital.
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