Yeah, this’ll work

| October 8, 2010

According to the Washington Times, the Army is adding to it’s regulations the “Threat Awareness and Reporting Program” to the “Subversion and Espionage Directed Against the U.S. Army”, what we always called SAEDA. The Treat Awareness and Reporting Program is supposed to require soldiers to report the suspicious behavior of their fellow soldiers;

All Army personnel “should report … information regarding [Army] personnel who exhibit any of the behaviors that may be associated with a potential espionage or international terrorist threat and those associated with extremist activity,” the new rules state. They add that anyone failing to report such behavior could be subject to administrative sanction or even court martial.

Of course this is the Army’s response to Major Nidal Hassan murderous rampage in Texas.

I see the reasoning and I agree with it, but it seems to me that anyone who would report this behavior after the reg would be the only people who would have before the reg, published Monday. I’m pretty sure that a soldier would think twice if he considered the Army’s current politically correct environment.

I don’t think it would have influenced Hassan’s supervisors who were oblivious to the potential disaster. They were afraid to blow Hassan in to the Army, and I’m pretty sure that many people who report their workmates will still face the EO officer and an investigation. Now, if the Army wants to add a provision to protect soldiers from the Army, I could see it working. But that would mean that the Army has been using it’s EO policy arbitrarily to silence soldiers and hamstring leaders. i don’t see that happening.

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Michael in MI

According to the Washington Times, the Army is adding to it’s regulations the “Threat Awareness and Reporting Program”…
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TARP, huh? I’m guessing this will work as brilliantly as a previous TARP worked.

Minuteman26

If you want a more secure Army get rid of all the gays, muslims and marxists within its ranks.

Trent

This is just CYA by the Army.

If supposedly trained mental health experts couldn’t discern intent from Hasan’s actions and presentation prior to the shooting, what makes the Army think that untrained officers, NCO’s and enlisted personnel will be able to do the same with others?