The Army needs immediately to convene a firing squad.
Posted on 11/04/2009 12:16:10 PM PST by Zakeet
An Army recruiter used a gay slur and an expletive during military-supervised testing at Durango High School last week, an incident that has raised parents' ire.
DHS students who overheard the comment confronted the man, whose identity was not released, and notified school personnel.
Juniors and seniors were required to attend a testing session Thursday that was overseen by recruiters from the U.S. Army Denver Recruiting Battalion, or to do an alternative project as part of a career day. More than 500 students took the test.
During the military aptitude test, several students overheard the soldier use the expletive and gay slur.
Lt. Col. William Medina, a spokesman for the Army's Denver Recruiting Battalion, said Tuesday he was conducting an internal investigation into the comment.
"The information I have at this point was the soldier who made it was talking to one of his fellow soldiers in the back of the room," Medina said. "The comment was overheard by several of the students.
The comment, although inappropriate, was not directed to the students or staff there." Medina said the remark "is absolutely inappropriate and not in keeping with Army values." Medina has apologized to DHS Principal Diane Lashinsky.
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The comment happened in the school's cafeteria while students were taking the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test, known as ASVAB. The multiple-choice test gauges students' aptitude for various careers. The test was overseen by about 10 military personnel, students said.
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Seniors Madeleine Meigs and Anna Rousseau were among the students who heard the comment. They confronted the soldier and reported the comment to school counselor Sarah St. John, who notified Lashinsky.
"I just thought that it was wrong, and I feel people in that position can kind of get away with stuff sometimes, and that's not OK," said Meigs, who is the daughter of Durango Mayor Leigh Meigs.
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Lashinsky said the students who reported the remark "did exactly what they were supposed to do." "The comment is completely inappropriate," Lashinsky said. "It's inappropriate to speak that way in a public forum, whether you're in a school or anywhere else. It's especially egregious to be speaking that way within hearing distance of young people." Parents complained they were not adequately notified of the ASVAB test or their ability to exclude their children. Rather, they said, it was up to the students to bring it to their parents' attention.
The Army needs immediately to convene a firing squad.
OMG, off to the gallows with him. /s
Don’t ask, don’t tell.
It may seem to be an amusing topic, but youtube the name Michael Coren and find the youtube segments on ‘Shakedown’. The thought police have been operating in Canada for decades, and now the demcorat party is bringing them to America to serve the PC sexual degenerates so loyal to the democrap party.
Good for him ! Faggots are too sensitive to being identified with their shortcomings.....being sex deviates is not enough for them; you gotta “accept” that they have problems but can’t mention them.
What did he say? I’m getting sick and tired of the lavender crowd running around claiming their contrived rights are being violated whenever they’re offended that someone calls them a name.
They should not be eavesdropping on private conversations.
did exactly what they were supposed to do
That would be to SNITCH, Little brown shirt whiners.WAA WAA
He shouldn't have used the expletive. Parents don't like swearing around their children.
Get out of Colorado fast....lol
However if the soldier had said that Jesus was f’ing bastard then he would have been praised.
We are making a mistake by allowing the fag community to make Fag the new “f” word....this is what they want, political and social power over all by invention of a slur against them.
When their own stop calling each other fag I “MAY” consider it...until then I will call it what it is...a hideous and purposeful campaign to marginalize any who disagree with
their choice in lifestyle and sexual preferences.
As for the soldier its easy to come up with better ways to express your disgust for people but then again, even if he had said “those aweful people” they gay aggressors would have tried to make hay out of it.
This really makes me tired. It may not be nice, may not be PC, but it is not ILLEGAL to dislike homos. And there is no constitutional right to NOT be offended.
Lets see what happens to those who get to basic training and try their whiny cooch there!
Mamma ain't gonna come and save any one of them. They will have to save themselves!
Thanks for getting in their faces Medina.Many just self selected themselves OUT. Thanks for doing it.
Who would’ve thought the military would ever use profane language? Of course, had it been one of the teachers using foul language to describe Chistianity or former President Bush, you can bet the NEA would be defending it as a first amendment issue.
ASFAB = ASVAB
Justice William O. Douglas :
"It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies."
C'mon, soldier! Everyone knows homosexuals have big ears.
i don’t see what the problem is. have you heard the mouths on high school kids lately? granted, i’m no saint and tend to use the ‘f’ word an awful lot, but even my deplorable language is tame compared to the racial epithets, profanity, insults, ebonics and other various slang- including speaking in txt speak- slung by many of todays youths.
What makes you think that the whiny little freaks that complained about the phrase "f*cking faggots" (or whatever the Soldier said) would ever make it to basic training?
re: Parents complained they were not adequately notified of the ASVAB test or their ability to exclude their children. Rather, they said, it was up to the students to bring it to their parents’ attention.
But condoms and the black book (on fisting and all kinds of deviancy, in Connecticut), is perfectly fine without permission.
What would Kevin Jennings say?
But the recruiters know not to do that around troops until they're "sworn" in.
A gay slur? What? Did he he say “gay”? Who the hell knows when there is piss-poor reporting like this?
Ah...No calling names or making fun of homosexuals in military basic training...Can't offend anyone....Must be a good soldier.
He will be stripped of rank and discharged dishonorably.
"Holy dog sh#t! Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas!
Yeah; calling a spade a spade is forbidden in today's "Liberal politically correct speech", yet they are the FIRST to complain about "freedom of speech".
Typical of their hypocrisy and double-standards, where they don't want to be outed for what they truly are: cowards with thin skins.
If I had a nickel for every name or insult that's been hurled my way over the years, I would retire a rich man.
As they say, "if you're takin' flak, you gotta be close to the target!"
Sarc tag? LOL.
Maybe be he was asking his fellow officer, (a former British national ) for a cigarette, show some cultural sensitivity people!!!
Seniors Madeleine Meigs and Anna Rousseau confronted the soldier, and reported the comment to school counselor.
Who are they to confront a soldier over ANYTHING? Good little socialist commissars reported immediately to the authorities. Sickening. And why didnt the counselor tell them they should show respect for an American Soldier.
Does it occur to anyone else here, that we weren’t even allowed to see the actual “BAD WORDS” this man said? He’s in a back room talking to another recruiter, and eavesdropping children actually confronted the recruiter adults and reported them to the authorities. Is it any wonder why there isn’t any respect for authority these days?
The article seeks to have us think badly about a man for something we aren’t even allowed to review. “I said it was bad, so just take my word for it! You don’t need to know.” Talk about assassinating someone’s character in a manner that will not provide them a means of defense. This is evidence of a sickness in the land, by far more worse than a few unfortunate words that may have in fact been improper. Who knows what context they were delivered in?
If the discussion was concerning K-12th grade kids being taught about homosexuality, I would probably be caught uttering some expletives and off color comments myself. While I do think homosexuals should be treated with respect, I don’t want that lifestyle mentioned to my children outside of my home.
You know folks, this nation is upside down. Good wholesome values are suspect, and things that most citizens find repulsive, are treated as decent and honorable.
God forbid we teach the kids about that.
Isn’t it amazing that what is NOT PC for the majority of the populace means nothing, but what is PC for a slice of the loons on the left, is? Talk about your nut-job nation...
When it gets to the point that good men can be destroyed in public for uttering words (yes just words) that aren’t “Politically Correct” according to the thought police, then we’re in very serious danger of going down the path of some of the worst nations in history.
Did anyone mention that to our darlings?
What better organization to teach us about free speech than the Army?
No I'm serious...Soldiers must not offend queers, faggots and other deviates...Hairy 40 year old men that kiss and hump each others butts must be respected by all.
Ask the public government school teachers. They'll tell ya!
This is such a common phrase in my son's career that I don't think it means what it says.
Yes, I agree that there is a freedom-threatening fascist speech code that has been adopted in this nation, but the recruiter, a professional, knows better, He should have been more careful.
I bet none of the kids that day scored higher than a 45. What sissies
Why can’t they ever report “the slur”?
OK, what was said?
Maggot?
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Head Quarters, New York, August 3rd 1776. That the Troops may have an opportunity of attending public worship, as well as take some rest after the great fatigue they have gone through; The General in future excuses them from fatigue duty on Sundays (except at the Ship Yards, or special occasions) until further orders. The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish, and wicked practice, of profane cursing and swearing (a Vice heretofore little known in an American Army) is growing into fashion; he hopes the officers will, by example, as well as influence, endeavour to check it, and that both they, and the men will reflect, that we can have little hopes of the blessing of Heaven on our Arms, if we insult it by our impiety, and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense, and character, detests and despises it. Clarkson and Chase under confinement for Desertion, and reinlistment into the Artillery, from another Corps, to return to Capt: Bauman's Company until Col. Ellmores Regiment, wh. claims them, comes into camp. |
I would reply at lenth about the New Modern Army in the Sixties, except for the Infrantry which is inhabited by Neanderthals.
Looking back none of us ever talked about those of a particular perswasion?
Those values of the military are "don't ask, don't tell".
Consistant with the stance of Sgt. Schultz on Hogan's Heroes. "I KNOW NOTHING! LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!!!"
Bull!
If the so-called parents are committing their offspring to this government indoctrination asylum, the kids probably hear worse at home...and most certainly have heard and used worse since 1st or 2nd grade.
Bump for later reading
He must now supplicate himself at the altar of political correctness and beg the forgiveness of our gay overlords ...
The principal needs to spend 3 minutes listening to the foul language used in the hallways between classes.
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