{"id":38547,"date":"2013-11-21T18:40:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T23:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38547"},"modified":"2013-11-21T18:41:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T23:41:06","slug":"army-to-cleanse-ranks-of-convicted-sex-offender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38547","title":{"rendered":"Army to cleanse ranks of convicted sex offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy sends us a link to an Army Times<\/a> article in regards to the Secretary of the Army John McHugh’s decision to toss out convicted sex offenders. You know, that’s fine with me. I’m surprised that they’re still serving. But, it’s not a complete cleansing. It seems some will get to stay. Guess who.<\/p>\n

For enlisted soldiers, separation proceedings will start even if after their conviction they were evaluated for retention and allowed to stay. Commissioned and warrant officers will not face separation proceedings if they were already evaluated for retention after their conviction and retained, according to the memo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um, I guess four years of college insulates the officer corps from persecution, because basically that’s all that separates them from most of the enlisted people who will be tossed. I would think that the Secretary of the Army, since he’s doing this to show how tough he’s going to be on sex offenders would want to completely remove sex offenders from his Army, the one that we lent to him for a period.<\/p>\n

The directive comes ahead of Senate debate this week on the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, to which a group of senators, spearheaded by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., plan to propose an amendment that removes the military chain of command from the decision to prosecute certain crimes, including sex assault.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, if McHugh is trying to head off the Act, he’s not doing a very good job, in fact by protecting the officers, he’s only proving Gillibrand’s whole point. If a sex offender is in the ranks of the military, they don’t belong there, whether they’re enlisted or officers. Shit or get off the pot, McHugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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