then it sounds like your grunts are a bunch of unreliable ppl. i mean if they dont always even show up.....well then how can you expect them to bust there @$$! every grunt i worked with busted there @$$ to the max, working with braces, casts, and slings, cause we needed the extra guy and showed up to help out. and usually the injured ones still did more than most of the higher ranked guys did! i moved up the ladder after 6 months of grunt work. but i will always respect a grunt that works to the max, and will always give him a hand when my job was slow. aparently your situation is very different than the one i was in!