{"id":40064,"date":"2014-02-27T10:40:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T15:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40064"},"modified":"2014-02-27T10:40:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T15:40:34","slug":"558-soldiers-removed-from-their-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40064","title":{"rendered":"558 soldiers removed from their positions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The USAToday<\/a> reports that someone in the Army trolled through the records of 20,000 soldiers and found 558 who were fir to serve in the positions that held; recruiters, drill sergeants, and sexual assault counselors by reason of illegal activities in their past, such as child abuse, sexual assault and drunken driving. Of those 558, seventy-nine were earmarked for separation. It’s not clear if any of those illegal activities happened before their military service.<\/p>\n

[Secretary of Defense Chuck] Hagel called for the review in May after a Pentagon study found troops reported that incidents of unwanted sexual contact had risen 35% from 2010 to 2012. Hagel has “been exceedingly clear about the need to continue stamping out sexual assault from our ranks,” said his spokesman, Rear Adm. John Kirby.<\/p>\n

“He was happy to learn that the Army widened the scope of their review and he is grateful for the work they have done to get a better grip on a very difficult issue and hold people accountable,” Kirby said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t think it should have taken a review ordered by the Secretary of Defense to find these guys, they should have been weeded out long before this. Drunk driving has been the ultimate sin for over 30 years, so I don’t know how they got by with that one, although it’s not fair to lump that in with child abuse and sexual assault. I’d be more interested to see how the numbers were broken down between the various offenses rather than express my outrage at the big number. I mean, was it 580 cases of drunk driving and 8 cases involving abuse or assault? <\/p>\n

The Navy dropped three of 5,125 recruiters it had reviewed, and two of 4,739 counselors. None of its 869 recruit instructors was disqualified. The Air Force and Marine Corps reported that none of their servicemembers had been disqualified.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m guessing that the services were all looking at different measures for their review, given the disparity in the numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The USAToday reports that someone in the Army trolled through the records of 20,000 soldiers and … 558 soldiers removed from their positions<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}