A command sergeant major at Fort Sill has been convicted of wearing unauthorized military insignia, including a Ranger Tab and the Pathfinder Badge.
Command Sgt. Maj. Perry McNeill was convicted last week by a military judge who sentenced McNeill to a demotion to sergeant first class, a letter of reprimand and to forfeit $500 in pay per month for 10 months.
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That POS got a slap on the wrist. It the duty of a Sgt to set and enforce Army standards. Sgt are, when they a violation of the standards, expected to make the on the spot correct to the soldier, to both enlisted and officer. I know, I was one. So it is galling to think they hypocrite could tell others how they are supposed to wear the uniform of the US Army, was in lying about who he was, and what he had done.
ReplyDeleteIt also speaks to his charecter, or in this case, the lack there of; One of the offical Army core values is Intergrity. Another is Personal Courage, which includes moral courage to do the right thing regardless of circumstances, And lastly Honor, a real man has a sense of honor, this POS has shown that he has none. I can only hope that those above him will strongly encourage (aka politely give a direct order) to retire.
The Army will be better off without the likes of him dishonoring the corp of NCOs
Yes, they shouldn't have only busted him to SFC. PFC maybe.
DeleteAmazingly E7 and above have a set of "special" rules for Article 15 and Court Martial offenses. He got the maximum penalty for an Article 15 for a E9 they could only take him down from E9 to E7 and fine him a max of $5000.
DeleteThey make the process to bust top 3 very difficult. This changed sometime back in the Clinton administration. The higher up you are the more you have to loose. The sad thing is according to how long he was an E8 and what type of E8 he was he could be a Sargent Major again in less than 2 years. The other end of the spectrum is an E7 is almost untouchable unless it is a sexual or DUI type charge. An E7's superiors will just make his life miserable or get them reassigned to a remote site in Alaska or Greenland.
Amazingly E7 and above have a set of "special" rules for Article 15 and Court Martial offenses. He got the maximum penalty for an Article 15 for a E9 they could only take him down from E9 to E7 and fine him a max of $5000.
DeleteI see, thanks.
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They make the process to bust top 3 very difficult. This changed sometime back in the Clinton administration. The higher up you are the more you have to loose.
Certainly, but that's TS as far as I'm concerned.
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The sad thing is according to how long he was an E8 and what type of E8 he was he could be a Sargent Major again in less than 2 years.
I was thinking something similar.
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The other end of the spectrum is an E7 is almost untouchable unless it is a sexual or DUI type charge. An E7's superiors will just make his life miserable or get them reassigned to a remote site in Alaska or Greenland.
That's screwed and I wouldn't be interested in following any in combat if that's the s case. I remember in Basic Training, many of the DI's had been in quite a while and had been busted many times. :)
This is no different than all of those
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I constantly see on news programs
wearing that piece of shit Combat Action Badge.
Most of the soldiers, enlisted or commissioned,
awarded that badge have not spent one second in combat, but that's
the hook up system that is the social experiment Army, along with
sensitivity training, EO NCO's, affirmative action promotions, and female
soliders made NCO's by virtue of trading sex for chevron's with dishonest
shitbag NCO's.
You could only get the CIB one way when I was in and it shouldn't have changed, but shouldn't is a big word.
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