1. It was my opinion based on the dichotomy of what the service was when I was to when my boy was in.
2. It’s no different than a 1st Sgt walking on another base and encountering policy-violating behavior by junior enlisted men (subordinate was the wrong term).
3. The medal was given by the personnel dept that is struggling with a MASSIVE personnel problem borne of bad leadership and this 1st Sgt stepped up to correct un-soldierlike behavior. The medal is unusual (perhaps unprecedented), but considering what she did, from a personnel-management standpoint, I can’t argue against the merit of the award.
4. This is the Army. Soldiers have no privacy rights, no freedom of speech. That the soldiers in question were not cited under UCMJ by their own superiors elaborates on a huge endemic problem. That she got a medal is proof there are some elements that want change. I see no relevance to critique it just because this was a female correcting bad male behavior. Personally, I could not trust the guy next to me that was so juvenile and unprofessional.
5. I agree with the ‘chain of command’ comment, but our military is so far gone that this is but one symptom of bad leadership by the soldiers’ respective commands. What she did took ‘balls’, ironically, and I applaud her for risking her career to make a difference.
6. She has more balls than the Joint Chiefs and their CIC combined.
7. Again, IMO.
A 1SG visiting another post would take it up with the offending soldiers chain of command instead of sending a whiney letter to some perfumed prince in the Pentagon.
The medal was uncalled for. Its the same as giving bradley manning an ARCOM for giving info to wikileaks. IMO it should have been downgraded to an Order of the Blue Falcon certificate.
It may be the Army, but we still had a limited freedom of speech that was kept within the platoon and or Troop, and that went for every unit I was in... We just couldn’t overtly dis the CiC, or military policy in public.
During the big GoE (Gathering of Eagles) in Washington DC back in ‘06 there were LOTS of active duty military (out of uniform of course) there standing with us to counter the code stink moonbatery.
Fact remains that there are more females in the military who spread their legs to get knocked up to avoid a deployment than there are those who are willing to do their jobs and deploy when ordered.