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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/CrushFive5 on 2025-10-09 08:02:40+00:00.

Backstory : I was in a desert country that was very hot while in the military. I was one of the newer members to the group when they gave us a free plane ride out there. My job was not combat oriented in any way and far away from most danger. However because I was newer instead of a normal weapon to carry daily (15 hrs a day 7 days a week) I was assigned the heavy size. After about a month into this me and the other people assigned this weapon are complaining. We do not need these readily available as our job is not to provide immediate defense.

I worked in a section that consistently dealt with Warrant Officers. To those not in the know these WO’s are very known for their no nonsense get the job done in the best way possible without messing with the standard. They are the keepers of the standards and would expect nothing less. One day a Warrant officer 5 saw me carrying this weapon and asked me why I had it. I explained it was the weapon assigned to me and as an officer he replied "I have a pistol my substantially lighter weapon is in the armory tell them to exchange my heavy for his.

I am through the moon after the exchange I go to the smoke pit and show off my new weapon. Eventually my first line supervisor sees me and asks how I got it. I explain the orders given to me. He responds with Is he your front line supervisor. He makes me re submit my new weapon for the old.

Now the fun part. I worked in an area where sometimes we went to where the WO’s were on assignment. I took the job to go deliver something and the WO5 sees me with the old weapon. He asks if I had a chance to exchange I reply I did but my SGT said to change it back. His response was did you tell him it was my order? me: yes sir :ok OP follow me anybody who has an idea of the army knows that a WO5 outranks a SSGt by a mile so countermanding his orders better have a good excuse.

We get to the SSgts office and the WO5 asks him what happened the SSgt gave some bs excuse then the WO5 said snap to attention. WO’s as a rule don’t adhere to normal standerds. The WO5 then excused me told me to switch weapons and locked the door. I stayed just long enough to hear a lot of yelling curse words and counting pushups.