Army Command Sgt. Maj. John Wayne Troxell suspended for misconduct.
The Pentagon’s top enlisted service member has been suspended and temporarily reassigned from his duties pending the outcome of an investigation into an undisclosed allegation of misconduct, officials said Thursday. Army Command Sgt. Maj. John W. Troxell has been the senior enlisted adviser to Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, since December 2015.
A spokesman for Dunford said Troxell will work as a special assistant to the vice director of Dunford’s staff while the Army’s inspector general investigates. The spokesman, Col. Patrick Ryder, said it would be “inappropriate” to reveal the nature of the alleged misconduct.
“We will wait for a full accounting of the facts and will not presuppose any findings or outcomes,” Ryder said.
Troxell gained attention earlier this year with a comment on Twitter about threatening to kill Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters with an entrenching tool, the utility shovel issued to individual soldiers. “ISIS needs to understand their two options when facing us: surrender or die! Surrender & we will safeguard to due process. Otherwise we will kill them with extreme prejudice, even if that means beating them to death with our entrenching tools!” Link HERE and HERE
They are being unusually tight-lipped about his suspension. Only a matter of time until someone from “the other side” finds out what its about and leaks it to the press. I will not be one of those who rushes to judgment about him, he deserves better.
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Innocent until proven guilty.
“Innocent until proven guilty.”
Have you been following the news of late, Proud?
Yeah, but I’m not a slimy-ass D-rat commie puke like a lot of scumbag pols in DC are.
Absolutely.
Nothing at all wrong with his comments…I say the same thing to the muslim vermin ISIS, “surrender or die” simple enough even for a quoran worshipping child of satan to understand! imho
I know the Dunsford family from Dorchester (a Boston neighborhood). . They are good. Some little DB probably took offense to the aggressive spirit we’re supposed to have. Hope the IG says:” To hell with your complaint”. Unless the Senior did something stupid, it’s time for the junior enlisted to quit the games.
John Wright
I wholeheartedly agree and I wonder if the complaint against him isn’t just bullshit from some IG-hounding Commando, I saw a few of those in my time and they ended up screwing themselves.
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Oh, you mean that thing in a US Army Uniform that looks like Gollum with cheap makeup?
On the other hand, the SJWs now know any simple allegation can disrupt the live of a person no matter how senior, and the good functioning of any unit.
It is a very smart practice that doctrinally we are responsible for training our own replacements.
I started to write something expressive then after thinking about it for a moment, said (forgive me Chaplin) “F it”, why waste my time. Most of us, many old school, are in agreement, current events are nothing more than bullshit. Fact of the matter is what we think no longer matters to those in control. I’m just thankful I survived 20 AD and 19 civil service, and son and son-in-law survived their AD to retire. I am 77 and have NEVER been so disgusted with the way things are going in our country and what a sitting president has to tolerate. Don’t even get me started on that sonovabitch Senator Jeff Flake.
You mean Senator Jeff [the] Flake, fixed it for ya!
You got that right…a SNOW FLAKE!
I have nothing but disgust and shame for all these low life pieces of shit, I don’t see how the country can survive if things don’t change.
Give me a chair at this table, Club Manager. I survived 23 years AD, the last several observing the rapidly changing politically correct environment. Then 11 years working for the VA, which is little more than a ‘good ‘ol boys club’ designed to protect the front line workers with their shitty attitude. I found the actual care to be excellent, but one had to get past the union protected assholes sitting at their computers, the ‘front line’ as I referred to them. I retired at age 59, years earlier than I had hoped, b/c I could no longer tolerate the bullshit and I refused to be part of the good ‘ol boys club.
So someone is willing to file a complaint against a CSM who has the willingness to kill with an entrenching tool, the combat awards to prove he’s seen some stuff, and the Ranger tab and other badges to prove he’s been trained to do so?
Hope the complaint is legit for their sake, cause he is not someone I’d want to make an enemy of.
Very true, screwing with CSM’s is as brilliant as doing so with MCPO’s!
“Bringing every weapon to bear!”
Sounds like a genuine warrior. Hope he’s not in the jackpot b/c he wants to kill our enemies as horribly as possible.
You can inflict some grievous harm with an entrenching tool. Probably get a bit messy but you know what they say, see a job, do a job.
This is no doubt by BS.
A betcha at his request, he called for this.
BS complaints often fall deep into never hear it again.
However, if I were him and I was accussed of anything … I would call for immediate investigation, step aside and plan how to punish the alligator.
Don’t be so sure. Troxell is indeed a good troop in many areas, but he has never been viewed as being fair or equitable to his troops.
I always take such talk with a grain of salt, but to make it so far up the ladder does require some measure of complete assholiness.
I am one of those troops. You’ve got the wrong guy or were just talking to sub par soldiers.
You need to do your research Ret_25X. I have served with Troxell stateside and in combat. He has and always will be fair and equitable with the troops. Whether you’re an E-7 or E-2 if you screw up he’ll smoke ya regardless of rank. If you do good he recognizes it. I know this first hand so I’m curious as to where you are getting your info.
I say BZ and give him another ribbon. The Army needs warriors, not pogues.
Soldiers are being coach to get together and write lies by very liberal minded Colonels and Generals about more traditional and conservative Senior Leaders to get them suspended and relieved. This was a normal practice at training bases and MDW area since 2015. Even through it is totally wrong; it’s smart and it works. “No truth Required” as a Former CG of a Training told females Soldiers when he begged them to write lies together in a room.
It appears guilty without proof and if it comes back unsubstantiated; just nonconcur with the findings and give a reprimand— it’s the Army way; especially in training environments in support of snow flake Soldier led by Colonels and Generals who 15 years ago would be at best Majors in the Army (unethical and weak leaders).