No I agree. The Catholic church has a lot more mechanisms in place now, to include clearing house in the seminaries of sodomites, to deal with the repeat offenders. No mechanism in the world will prevent one time occurances, but the move around get along which opened the door for repeat offenders is unacceptable. Yes, the military had to learn those hard knocks too especially in those DoD child care facilities where they had, in some cases, a worse record than the civilian side.
What got my Irish ire up with this article was the blase way it communicated and then reinforced by some as “well it was not half bad” attitude. Believe me, I understand defending organizations from false or exaggerated claims as you do. We served in the same organization and we know some of the stuff said about the Army was bogus but deep down there was some truth along with the invective. It is a hard pill to swallow. When you start getting 15-6 and Art 32s to investigate you realize the awful side of the organization you love and respect, and respect it more for having such mechanisms in place.
Thanks for the dialogue.
I also appreciate the dialog. I especially enjoy being able to discuss it without attacks or enmity.
Ref the 15-6’s and Art 32’s, I know all too well about them (I’m the guy with the stripes sitting beside the BC (now BDE CDR) telling him “This really DOES need to be investigated”, and giving him my input during punishment phase. (still doing it, BTW)