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.
Not arguing your points, except that lack of leadership and other Personnel problems’ do not justify the soldiers’ behavior. Had it been a male 1st Sgt I don’t think this thread would even have been posted.
Had this medal ceremony been at the WH, I would agree with you 100%. But I view the medal as a slap in the face to the Puppet’s policies (which are a FAIL for military structure, discipline, morale and command).
When there is no leadership at the helm of our military and a woman has more balls than the President to address discipline (let alone those soldiers’ own ‘leaders’), then we truly have an endemic problem that will require a REAL leader to change.
IOW, it ain’t gonna change for a LONG time comin’...