And this has often been quite helpful to me. However, the most memorable and possibly most effective vicarious learning that seems to have always come from those things that my colleagues and counterparts did wrong, and for which they faced peer and audience ridicule at the beyond the simple and significant punishment established in the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) (military.com, 2016). Such incidents, while rare, have always remained memorable and relevant to me and have served to remind me that you just don't want to be "that guy." An example of these memorable public shames that served to teach all of us, who had to witness it, was the warning of the delinquents by the commander in front of our formation. Whereupon the commander proceeded to publicly state the wrongs these men had committed, beefing up the ammunition, and then explaining how these selfish and mean acts had brought embarrassment to our entire regiment. At that point the commander tore every coat of arms and emblem from their uniforms, symbolically driving them out of our tribe and reducing them to the ranks of common soldiers. This was followed by weeks of extra duty, under the supervision of the First Sergeant, for these men; in addition to the money seized from their wages; before they received their reassignment orders and could move on with their lives. The least cultured of our entire lineup, and of all those who witnessed this skeptical audience that day, he was; don't do wrong things period; how to steal valuable resources. And don't do these things for selfish reasons. Or you too may face the challenge of shame and public ridicule; for you are formally expelled from our honorable tribe of
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