Hagel says you need more training on sexual harassment – yep that’s the ticket
The Washington Post reports that after ruminating on the subject of sexual harassment for an entire day, Chuck Hagel has arrived at the totally unique conclusion that you need more training. Anyone who didn’t see that coming, raise your hand. Yeah, me, too.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday evening ordered the armed services to immediately “re-train, re-credential and re-screen” tens of thousands of military recruiters and sexual-assault prevention officers as the revelation of another sex-crime scandal rocked the Pentagon.
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“He is going to spare no effort to address this problem,” George Little, the Pentagon press secretary, told reporters Wednesday. Little said the public, lawmakers and military personnel “have the right to be outraged” about the Fort Hood investigation.
Oddly enough, in a link sent to us by Jerry920, NBC reports that a woman who has been charged with sexual harassment at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, TX pleaded guilty;
Staff Sergeant Emily Allen admitted to having a sexual relationship with a male technical trainee, attempting to have a sexual relationship with another man, and having or trying to develop social relationships with two female and one male technical trainees.
“She pleaded guilty to having a relationships with all four of the technical school Airmen,” Lackland spokesman Brent Boller said.
I honestly don’t understand the problem, really, I don’t. But, I’m pretty sure that taking time from training to teach hand and arm signals isn’t the answer. Like someone said in the comments in the other post, the training is already eight hours long. If a lieutenant colonel, a sergeant first class and an Air Force sergeant don’t understand that grabbing various women by the ass, turning your subordinates into prostitutes, and boinking your trainees is against DoD policy, I don’t think more training will fix that. Honestly.
Ok, everyone who thinks any of that is acceptable behavior, raise your hand. Nope, me neither. And I’ve never had a sexual harassment slide show presentation. Never. I don’t think that the military needs to waste a minute on training people not to be perverts. Maybe they should keep them in the field five days a week like they did to us. Or separate the sexes, like they did to us.
But training is exactly the solution employed by people with no leadership experience, so I guess we’ll go with that one instead of using some common sense.
Category: Big Army, Military issues
Here we go again, a few have screwed up so it’s EVERYONE’S fault. The solution? Death by stupidity *OOPS!* Powerpoint on “No, no, no, no,…..” I wonder if this shit’s not just a planned media circus to distract from the rest of the shit B. Hussein Øbama & Co. have gotten us into?
No, Infidel, I think it’s just part of the ongoing stuff that clogs the agenda on second terms.
Hopefully nicki, they fire or reprimand you. Just maybe you will get away with avoiding training.
Cat’s out of the bag:
“Rep. Schakowsky: ‘Our Survival as a Species is Dependent on Women Taking Charge’” (http://cnsnews.com/news/article/rep-schakowsky-our-survival-species-dependent-women-taking-charge)
Another thought:
Heterosexual sexual harrassment is wrong. But what if the offender is gay?
Howard Kurtz and Niall Ferguson know the answer to that question…
#36 Arby: if I follow you correctly, our government’s official guidance on filling out a request for security clearance is to LIE.
That is a warm, comfortable thought…
I don’t think they need any more training. They seem to be doing it well enough on their own. :p
When I became a WO and they put me into co-ed bachelor quarters at Fort Lee (club school) and I knew becoming an officer was a smart decision. As a MSgt, I had to go to the club to find a friendly companion, as a wobbley one I only had to go up to the fifth floor. If there was any sexual harrassment, it was the horney (and lovely I might ad) Air Force shavetails seeking mature companionship. Shamefully, I neglected to file a complaint since technically I was the junior. Fast forward 40 years to 2013 and now they not only want to put women into front line units and special ops, they mix the young people with out of control hormones in the same tents. Let’s see, yo Gunny, you saved my life, let me show my appreciation.
Great! More waste of time power point presentations…..Yay!
#9 MGySgt
Reminds me of the interview (joke?) between a male military personnel and a female libtard reporter: She accuses him of having all the equipment and training of a hired murderer. He retorts that she has all the equipment and training of a prostitute. End of interview.
Different aside: If the socially engineered artificial construct of mixing men and women in the military is having such unintended consequences — can you imagine the unintended consequences of mixing gays and straights??
“And I’ve never had a sexual harassment slide show presentation. Never.”
You lucky bastard.
I spend more time in sexual harassment training, EO training, master resiliency training (learning to get in touch with my feelings), summer saftey training, and the list goes on, than I do on my MOS.
That sounds like me when I was an Active Duty “Joe” before I ETS’ed in.1994! Even in the Guard, we get a sickening amount of PC crap!
I had one female 92A in my supply room and two male 92Ys. They were all my minions and I treated them equally (I used the term minion as an endearment and they never complained).
I had a couple of female friends in the admin cave that I hung out with a great deal both on- and off-duty. Even went clubbing with one.
I was selected as a mentoring NCO for new returns from training for a month and got three females in a row. One Admin, one Chaplain’s Assistant, and one Motor Pool. I took them all to lunch at least once a week and made sure their transition into the unit was going smoothly.
Not at one single point, even being an E-5 in a Support Battalion, did I touch any of my female soldiers in a sexual manner. I did not rape them, molest them, pimp them out, or harass them (sexually, I harassed them in the non-sexual manner all the time).
I did not require the Army to tell me not to do that. I did not require the Department of Defense to tell me not to do that. I did not require a briefing to tell me not to do that. I learned that from my grandfather and father who both taught me how to be a gentleman.
I do not buy into the “every man is a rapist” argument just because we have a penis. I have a list of at least 12 “little sisters” in the military who can prove that. Including one that I had to drag out of a bad situation, help her through near alcohol poisoning, and shower her after she barfed on her clothes. Again, at no point did I do anything but help her.
Sorry, I’m done with my rant now.
They have flag everyone in that soldiers chain of command now it’s the chain of command had to know this was going on in the unit they all had to go to CID to go through the finger print the da and the picture .they have been dealing with this case since early part of April they only came out with it because soldiers said they was going to the news. But it’s ok we tell cid you did something and we find out you did not do anything just shout. go back to work and be a good soldier and close your mouth we got to show we doing something and the hold chain command you don’t matter your family your name and your career . False reports are not the problem now we have find people to convicted that it
Why have they not charge him they been doing this since April