By her own admission she never contacted the offending soldiers chain of command. She emailed the soldiers directly and CC’d the Army’s SHARP coordinator at the Pentagon.
Because of her actions the Corps command got broadsided without warning, the Division command got broadsided without warning, the Brigade command got broadsided without warning, the Battalion command got broadsided without warning, and finally the Company command got broadsided without warning.
IF it was a male 1SG who went straight to DA instead of proper channels he would have been busted back to E7 and be given an Article 15.
I state, again, “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. “
On the basis of the soldiers’ actions, my own observations and experiences of my boy, the commands deserved to be broadsided. We have a leadership problem resulting in unsoldier-like behavior, loss of discipline & morale. It has obviously spread to command if this garbage is tolerated. There is no ‘respecting command’ if command is derelict.
As stated, I view the medal as a slap in the face to the Pupppet.
I would have relieved command myself had I found what she found. I don’t agree with many of the Pentagon’s moves on women and all the other utter BS (transgender, gays, etc.), but acting like monkeys is but one symptom of much larger personnel problems and, imo, we’re way beyond ‘a fix’; drastic action is a first step. I truly hope this stimulates a nice round of closed-door arguments about the validity of further integration of our armed forces...as well as recruiting monkeys to do a man’s job.