Adultery is forbidden.
He may have been an effective officer, but threw it all away by his own reckless behavior.
Posted on 06/25/2014 12:38:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A legendary Special Forces commander was quietly forced to leave the U.S. Army after he admitted to a love affair with a Washington Post war correspondent, who quit her job to secretly live with him for almost a year in one of the most dangerous combat outposts in Afghanistan.
U.S. Army Special Operations Command never publicly disclosed that highly-decorated Green Beret Major Jim Gant was relieved of command at the end of a harrowing 22 months in combat in March 2012.
His commanders charged in confidential files that he had "indulged in a self-created fantasy world" of booze, pain pills and sex in a tribal village deep in Taliban and al Qaeda country with his "wife," journalist Ann Scott Tyson.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
You want to win or follow the rules??
I think you are right.
So? The rest of the MSM ‘journalists’ are in bed with the “O” administration.
hittable
Adultery is forbidden.
He may have been an effective officer, but threw it all away by his own reckless behavior.
Well in all honor to his service..adultery is a crime in the military and to have his new woman live with him on assignment while the rest of his troop cant..and shouldnt..shows very bad judgement for a commander.
In today’s military, if he had a love affair with a man, he’d get promoted and his boyfriend would go to the White House to have tea with Michelle Obama.
Does the Army have an ability to punish her? He was the one who made a commitment to the Army. If she was killed over there, the Army would have been in trouble for it. If she got assaulted or injured, she would have sued the Army.
Wow, great minds....my first thought, too.
The betrayal was of their respective spouses and children. Breathtaking selfishness on their part, and characteristic special pleading by many on this thread. Good riddance.
I think you missed the part that said the Army was not revealing this. It just came out now.
A Special Forces soldier screwing a woman in a combat zone?
Bet that’s never happened before.
Here is an older thread on it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3138705/posts
You make an excellent point. Either you implicitly encourage subordinates to fraternize or else you rub their faces in your own specialness. Either way, it isn't leadership.
“He (Maj. Gant) was wounded seven times in his career — but always declined a Purple Heart Medal because his injuries were minor, he said.”
Sec. State John Kerry could not be reached for comment...
(BTW, Did you know that he served in Vietnam?)
“STRAIGHT SEX FORBIDDEN..?”
Yes, under HQ CENTCOM General Order # 1. No sex (regardless of rank of participants), no booze, no porn, & of course, no illegal drugs.
I was deployed to Uzbekistan, a much safer place. Those caught canoodling were on the next plane out to Germany & a court-martial. Those found with booze were told to light up a joint, you won’t be in worse trouble than you already are.
I got propositioned enough times by enlisted females to know they were CID setups. Especially since I was already 55 at the time.
Sounds a lot like M*A*S*H.................
AMERICAN SPARTAN: THE PROMISE, THE MISSION, AND THE BETRAYAL OF SPECIAL FORCESMAJOR JIM GANT
By Ann Scott Tyson
William Morrow, $27.99, 384 pages
[...]
Across the country, in the Konar region of eastern Afghanistan, Army Special ForcesMaj. Jim Gant was making similarly grim calculations and coming to much the same conclusion: Time was short, and by his estimate, drastic measures were needed. How he tackled the problem is the subject of Ann Scott Tyson’s gripping book, “American Spartan.” Miss Tyson is an accomplished war correspondent; she is also now Jim Gant’s wife. Miss Tyson eventually came to Maj. Gant’s Konar headquarters and became his partner in his effort to pacify Konar. In the process, Miss Tyson unapologetically lost her journalistic objectivity; however, it gives her the material for a gripping and highly readable book.
[...]
Since Iraq, Maj. Gant had been drinking heavily. Although he never drank in front of the Afghans, the consumption of alcohol is a blatant violation of General Order No. 1 for military personnel in Afghanistan. He and Miss Tyson had become lovers; she joined him in Konar, and they shared his quarters. This is another serious violation of General Order No. 1.
The American military in Afghanistan and Iraq doesn’t allow booze, sex or dogs. Neither do the Taliban or al Qaeda. I’ve often wondered what they are fighting about.
However, the hubris that comes with flaunting orders and getting away with it, combined with the isolation from higher headquarters, led to other irregularities. Maj. Gant was headed for a train wreck. It came in the form of a newly joined lieutenant who was offended by Maj. Gant’s freewheeling style, which violated all of the rules he had learned at West Point.
As one officer would later put it, Maj. Gant had “gone Kurtz,” in reference to the rogue colonel in “Apocalypse Now.” The lieutenant’s complaint led to investigation that ended Maj. Gant’s career and cost him his coveted Special Forces tab.
“American Spartan” is not meant to be a balanced account, but it is a brutally honest one. Maj. Gant became a deeply flawed human being. I agree with Miss Tyson that Maj. Gant is a superb American warrior; but in the end, he became a poor soldier. Afghanistan has plenty of warriors. All Afghan males think of themselves as such.
Without discipline, a military unit is just another militia, and Afghanistan has too many militias already.
BTTT
Was he inspired by Eisenhower, Patton, etc?
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