{"id":113403,"date":"2021-05-11T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=113403"},"modified":"2021-05-10T19:55:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T23:55:40","slug":"i-dont-know-if-i-even-recognize-the-army-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=113403","title":{"rendered":"I don’t know if I even recognize the Army anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"
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XVIII Airborne Corps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some days I wonder just what’s going on with the Army. TDY to a foreign country and the young airborne troopers can’t even hit the strip club? In Poland no less? Jeff LPH 3 sends in this Army Times article<\/a>;<\/p>\n

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Brigade caught in strip club episode in Poland hit with corps-level investigation<\/h3>\n

The 18th Airborne Corps has launched an investigation into the leadership of the 101st Airborne Division\u2019s Combat Aviation Brigade following a deployment to Europe last year, officials told Army Times Monday.<\/p>\n

The inquiry by the headquarters at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, comes in the wake of a previous investigation that uncovered how one of the unit\u2019s subordinate battalions broke Army rules by visiting a strip club during an official trip to Gdansk, Poland.<\/p>\n

The battalion\u2019s executive officer went missing for a day following a drunken nighttime outing in September, and he later claimed to investigators that he was drugged at the strip club and charged excessive amounts on his credit card.<\/p>\n

Stars and Stripes first reported the new investigation, in addition to the original one.<\/p>\n

Army Col. Joe Buccino, 18th Airborne Corps spokesman, confirmed that the headquarters had launched an investigation, but he revealed few other details.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe investigation encompasses a series of allegations,\u201d Buccino said in an email. \u201cThe investigating officer has been tasked with a through investigation and we do not have a [completion] timeline right now. No one has been suspended in concert with the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The investigator sent by 18th Airborne Corps is a colonel from outside the 101st Airborne Division. Col. Travis Habhab, the aviation brigade commander, informed his subordinate leaders of the investigation late last week.<\/p>\n

The corps-level investigation indicates there could be problems within Habhab\u2019s brigade that extend beyond what happened at the Polish strip club last fall, which ended with numerous officers facing early ends to their military careers, Stripes reported.<\/p>\n

Stripes also obtained a command climate survey from the deployment for the brigade\u2019s headquarters company. The survey indicated pervasive issues with suicidal thoughts and bullying in the unit.<\/p>\n

In April, the brigade returned to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, from a nine-month rotation to Europe in support of Atlantic Resolve, an ongoing multinational response to Russian aggression in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

There are approximately 6,000 soldiers participating in Atlantic Resolve \u201cat any given time,\u201d according to U.S. Army Europe and Africa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s a lieutenant colonel and sergeant major out there that deserve some real respect if they were able to deal with the logistics of deploying an entire battalion into a single strip club on foreign soil. That they were able to do so and lose only a single officer in the re-deployment out of the area of operations is all the more impressive.<\/p>\n

While we’re on the topic of missing officers, the battalion XO must not be well liked if he went missing for a day on a drunken bender and none of his men would cover for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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