Where’s the link?
http://www.military.com/news/article/fired-female-drill-sgt-boss-fights-removal.html?ESRC=navy.nl
Check-out the comments following the article.
I thought the military was supposed to work differently, and that, unlike the private sector where blacks are essentially unfireable, the military can pretty much simply do the right thing when it comes to promotions, demotions, and reassignments, etc.?
She wanted to TRAIN DRILL SERGEANTS, and she couldn’t deal with and control personal animosity within her ranks? Please, this is the Onion, right?
She says her instincts tell her if she were male none of this would have happened.
So implicit in her statement is fraternization, at a minimum, with a subordinate or having night time relations.
Big no, no in any field. Unless you are Bill Gates...
This “article” is another example of the stenographic journalism practiced by the Military Times publications.
Do a Google search on CSM King and you’ll find the reasons she was removed from her post. There are allegations of an improper relationship with a subordinate; she reportedly has a drinking problem and if that’s not enough, two of her college degrees (a master’s and a “Doctor of Divinity”) came from diploma mills.
As a retired military officer, I can tell you the bogus degrees alone are sufficient reason for her dismissal. She lied to her superiors, pure and simple. The allegations about her drinking and improper relationship speak volumes about her character—clearly, she doesn’t have the integrity you’d expect in a corporal, let alone a CSM.
If she’s being allowed to retire without non-judicial punishment or a courts-martial, CSM King is damned lucky. A lesser individual (I.e., someone from a non+protected class) would be facing serious punishment and possibly, the end of their career.
Of course, the MSM article makes no mention of CSM King’s “problems.” What a surprise. King’s defenders are casting her as a “victim” when she engineered her own fall from grace.
He produced Army evaluations that showed that up until then, King had excellent ratings throughout her career.
Yeah, try writing an bad NCOER about a minority. I was an E-9 over 20 years, and gave a few "Needs Some Improvement" remarks - with facts to back up the ratings - to minorities. I was the one that got chastised.
I knew NO SLACK. He yelled at me so loud one time that my Mom’s ears wear ringing. SGM, you are not NO SLACK.
That says quite a bit there. She's an E-9, almost due for retirement, and she's never been deployed to a combat zone? WTF has she been doing for the past 11 years?