If everything in the article is true, and it’s a big if, then not should Specialist Hall clean up in court, but it looks like there is a major house cleaning needed in the military. Now, I suspect there is another side to this story, and I’d really like to hear it.
It’ll all come out in court.
I’ve seen far too many zealot missionaries as officers in the military for my tastes. My last unit commander was just that type.
Nice guy outside of that, but once the ‘Praise Jesus’ button was pressed... it was time to run for the hills.
So this really isn’t all hard to believe.
My thinking exactly. Typically, the defendant has a very different story than the plaintiff.
And why the hell would the Army give a crap about atheists giving their life for the country? I don’t. My test is about ‘whether’ you are willing to give your life not whether you believe you will be rewarded in the afterlife for having done it.
And if this Major really did what is said then he needs to be upbraided or censured (whatever the language is). But once this becomes some big victim story and unit cohesion is disrupted, then you can’t go back and fix it. And somebody other than the Major is probably responsible for that part.
Typically, its a case where an aggrieved party makes themselve some kind of special case because they feel discriminated against and that tends to make the rest of the group want to finish the job. Group dynamics require an adherence to specific principles and when you put OTHER principles ABOVE the ones you all follow to protect yours and your fellow soldiers lives then you are disrupting the dynamic of the unit and the unit will seek to find a stability by removing the disrupting cause - ie, you. But even in the middle of a war, victimhood could trump everything.