Where is his Chain of Command?
Ok, we all know that Ft. Hood Cavazos was a horrible place, so we renamed it to stop all the hinky stuff going on. Well, seems that a new name hasn’t made up for severe problems.
Sgt. Greville Clarke, 31, was arraigned Monday, accused of breaking into the rooms of five women, robbing them, holding two at gunpoint and, in one case, strangling a soldier with a lamp cord until he believed she was dead.
The charges, including attempted premeditated murder, rape, intent to rape, kidnapping and burglary, stem from a series of alleged incidents at the Texas base in 2022 targeting five alleged victims.
Yeah, that is some really off-the-wall nastiness there. Get him gone, right? Wait, 2022?
In the most recent incident on Oct. 2, 2022, according to court records, Clarke allegedly broke into a woman’s barracks room, bound her hands, and blindfolded her before sexually assaulting her at gunpoint.
He also allegedly took photographs of her naked, struck her with the gun and stole $14,000 from her bank account after seizing her credit card. He is accused of forcing her into a footlocker to take her to another location, but she broke free.
Clarke allegedly shot at her as she fled, but it was unclear from the court documents whether she was wounded.
Ugly stuff. Really showing himself as bad, right? It ain’t the first time.
In July 2022, Clarke allegedly carried out a similar assault on another woman.
Court records state that he photographed her, stole her military ID and Apple watch, and raped her at gunpoint after tying her up and blindfolding her.
During the attack, Clarke is accused of pressing his foot on her neck and strangling her with a lamp cord, stopping only because he believed she had died.
Further back, in March 2022, Clarke allegedly broke into the barracks rooms of two more women, assaulting both while holding them at knifepoint. He raped one woman and sexually assaulted the other, according to the charges.
The charge sheet also details two additional break-ins in July 2022, where Clarke allegedly entered an additional barracks rooms with the intent to commit rape. However, no charges were filed in connection with those break-ins, and it’s unclear whether the women he targeted were present at the time. Military.com
The author is laying the blame on dilapidated barracks with little or no door-lock provisions. Me, I’d like to know where his chain of command is? March, repeatedly in July, October – these aren’t isolated incidents, this is a pattern of behavior. You can’t tell me some of his fellow NCOs and chain of command were oblivious to this – and if they were, that says something of their competence as well. Wonder if all that DEI training has been completed and checked off properly in triplicate?
This clown needs to be breaking big rocks into little rocks in eastern Kansas soon, like before winter sets in, so he can learn to appreciate the salubrious climate. For, maybe the rest of his life.
Sure am glad all that emphasis on renaming cured everything.
Some officers and Sr NCOs need to be shit canned over this one. No way they did not know.
Unable to find a photo of Sergeant Rapey.
Who the devil recruited this piece of garbage and, yeah supervised him?
We did have two individuals in my old company that went out and strong armed robbed civilians once, maybe twice. They went to *jail* in a lot less time than two years!
Hang him — slowly. Let him kick and struggle. And post troops and observers around to watch as a lesson, like they did for Lincoln’s conspirators and Henry Wirz.
My thoughts exactly.
Before carrying out the sentence, anyone wearing the uniform should be mustered and formed into a “U” around a tree and publicly witness the hanging.
Perhaps watching him twitch would send a signal and serve as a deterrent.
The “grate” place…
It is curious that no pictures are easily found (I only did a summary Google search, but usually there’s social media or other sources that provide a simple pic), and I agree that his peers and seniors should be held accountable if it’s found out that they knew–or even suspected–of his behavior.
A key thing about this Greville Clarke character, though, is that his name taints the title of Sergeant, which is traditionally the Army’s most trusted and relied-upon rank title. We don’t differentiate until First Sergeant and Sergeant Major. Once you attain the paygrade of E-5 you’re a “Sergeant” until you earn a diamond and/or star or retire (as many of us do) at E-7 or below.
Who held the semi-centralized board that selected this loser to become an NCO? I know that some are more selective than others, and just maybe this guy absolutely owned the NCO Creed and Army Song without further questions, but someone saw fit to place him in a position of authority, with corresponding rank. PVT Poopstain misses a car payment on his 38% APR Dodge Charger loan, and he’s counseled and held accountable with threats of early separation. SGT Clarke repeatedly violates female Soldiers and is only now being charged for actual crimes he committed as someone considered a “leader”.
I was a SHARP Victim Advocate for over ten years, and this type of stuff infuriates me. So long as he’s given his due process and found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, Clarke needs to be drummed out of service and given consecutive life sentences in the deepest pits of Leavenworth.
Currently the max for Rape under Article 120 is Life without the possibility of parole. This is very likely one of those cases given all the aggravating circumstances.
If memory serves correctly decades ago it was hanging. Seems just as good to me. I’m not a big fan of the death penalty because I believe that no one is beyond redemption. However some people are too dangerous to be allowed back into society, ever. Those are the cases where I am a fan, kind of like this guy.