Cleaning house; the Army/Navy version (Updated)
Greg and Tman sent us links to a couple of disciplinary problems. First up is Sergeant Major Teresa L. King who is the commandant of the Drill Sergeant School in Fort jackson, SC. You may remember a few years ago it was national news when she assumed the position. Even Oprah WInfrey recognized her accompishment of being the first female commandant of that school. Well, according to the Army Times, she’s no longer functioning in that position for disciplinary reasons;
“She is still the commandant of the school. She is not carrying out the duties as commandant,” said Stephanie Slater, a spokesperson for the command.
Slater would not elaborate on the circumstances behind King’s suspension, citing the ongoing investigation and King’s privacy.
“This is an internal personnel action, and we want to respect Command Sgt. Maj. King’s privacy,” Slater said.
So I guess we can just speculate in the comments about what has caused the downfall of the mighty. If I’d known this particular nugget before, I would have guessed she wouldn’t last long;
King has the nickname of “Sergeant Major No Slack” after the “noslack” vanity plates on her black Corvette.
Sergeant Majors who drive Corvettes with vanity plates are always trouble.
The next story is about a true dick in the Navy who used his subordinates to entertain his family at a reunion;
A Navy skipper who lost his command this summer was fired in part for making his Sailors work on a Sunday to help him host a family reunion at which he allowed his relatives to drive military vehicles and go for rides on a landing craft, according to a Navy investigation report.
I guess he thought it was his own personal Navy. I know the bubbleheads are glad he’s not a nuc. But there have been a number of O-5s bite the big weenie in the last year. If I was an O-5, I’d just run for it with my retirement intact because it looks like the new regime is cleaning house. Especially in wetter services.
UPDATE: On SGM King, someone sent us some inside information that I don’t mind sharing. Apparently SGM King was boinking a subordinate and had a serious drinking problem – both serious infractions for the military. I saw a lot of senior NCOs losing their jobs for excessive drinking. It’s been going on for thirty years, you’d have thought King would have noticed.
December 13th, 2011 at 5:24 pm
What about Specialists who drive Corvettes (recently returned from deployment) with vanity plates??…
December 13th, 2011 at 5:28 pm
And so…CSM Majors is pulling a rabbit out of her magic hat. And because she felt smug and above everyone else got her fluffy little tail in a nine line bind, right In the meanwhile, Mr. “I am the US Navy” shows off his power..lessness. Hmmm
December 13th, 2011 at 5:30 pm
@ #1- Report ‘em to the Provost Marshal if they exhibit speed above their pay grade?
December 13th, 2011 at 5:33 pm
Got to wonder… Is Oprah going to brag about this now?
December 13th, 2011 at 5:41 pm
22 CO’s fired in the Navy so far this year. Still 3 weeks to go. And frankly, the IG was slow to nail this bastard to the wall. Time was if someone even THOUGHT of this crap they were shown the door.
The Navy is an 18th Century organization, being dragged kicking and screaming into the 19th.
December 13th, 2011 at 5:41 pm
Alex F.; all specialists are trouble no matter what they drive.
December 13th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
Brown told investigators that at the time he saw the event as no different than the skipper of a ship bringing his family to see his vessel.
If it was just the duty section and nothing special was done, then yeah, you might have had a point, Commander. But you called people in and dragged half the shit in your command onto a beach where even your XO said it was a shitty idea.
Have fun running that Starbucks in Virginia Beach.
December 13th, 2011 at 5:50 pm
Army Sergeant Majors are totally useless. After 20 years, I couldn’t figure out what purpose they served. In Bosnia for SFOR 14, we only had 1,200 soldiers, but 9 (NINE!!!) Sergeant Majors…none of them actually had a job…but they all went around like they were the HMFIC and just annoyed working folks daily.
and then there’s the dumbass we had in Iraq who had Negligent Discharges on the Fifty Cal— a total useless retard.
December 13th, 2011 at 5:52 pm
CSMs have been an invaluable asset in the war on terror! Who else could have shouldered the monumental burden of enforcing reflective belt wear and HMMWV speed limits in theater?
December 13th, 2011 at 5:53 pm
@ #6 Jonn – You mean the E-4 Mafia?
December 13th, 2011 at 6:02 pm
I’m shocked that you guys disparage the corps of sergeant majors. if it wasn’t for sergeant majors who would protect the POGs from the grunts?
December 13th, 2011 at 6:13 pm
If it wasn’t for sergeant majors people wouldn’t know where to poo in the field or on a deployment. Everyone would just run around with shit in their pants because they didn’t have a sergeant major their to save the day.
The most useless thing I’ve ever seen involves 2, that’s right 2, sergeant majors that were tankers walking through a motorpool with m-4s that had suppressors attached to them. First, wtf were the doing in the motor pool with their m-4s. Second, why the hell would they need suppressors for, in garrison or deployed. There is nothing I hate more than sergeant majors. They should just make their presence known, spout some bs about smoking, reflector belts or shitters and then go F themselves.
December 13th, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Thing about the Navy these past few years, is they’ve been an Equal Opportunity butt-kicker as far as relieving-for-cause various skippers.
Both Male & Female martinets have been sent packing, and, with only one or two exceptions, each has totally been guilty of the charges proffered.
December 13th, 2011 at 6:19 pm
@#12: If they could go fuck themselves, they’d never leave their quarters.
December 13th, 2011 at 6:22 pm
#14 lmfao
December 13th, 2011 at 6:30 pm
@#9: Holy fucking shit I almost fell out of my seat laughing. So True!
December 13th, 2011 at 6:42 pm
Back in 2006, I remember a CSM deciding that a company of Joes immediately back from an all night mission were the ones to walk around the FOB area cleaning up trash. The Pogs in other companies were exempt. A few of us offered to handle the “duty” and give the joes a break, and ultimately, the company first sergeant did the job himself rather than subject his men to that stupid CSM order. He was so smug and uncompromising, and to this day have absolutely no idea what that CSM did.
December 13th, 2011 at 6:45 pm
I always hated unemployed SGMs, they made life so much better. Who would regulate who could come into the dfac? God forbid that a grunt would want to eat while being “too dirty” or your sleeves be rolled up too far when it was 120 degrees out. Power Point Ranger has a few good comics about SGMs and chow hall nazis…
December 13th, 2011 at 6:50 pm
To be fair, most of the SCPO/MCPO’s on the boats had a function as COB, EDEA (bull nuke), what have you.
On shore duty? About as useful as a football bat. Given the chance, I would have taken about 75 percent of the CPO’s when I was on recruiting duty (and about 95 percent of the CRFers of any rank) and dropped their sorry asses off the Santa Monica Pier.
December 13th, 2011 at 7:55 pm
The rank of CSM is a rank that needs to go the fuck away. They serve no purpose but to make lives miserable on deployment. 4th ID brigade CSM flipped out when I got out of an MRAP with my mframes sitting on my beanie at COP Blessing. Really?! motherfucker this is the pech river valley that should be the least of your worries.
Then 327 infantry’s CSM coming into my AO asking me why my guys were in PTs and not ACUs during the duty day because apparently to dickhead you have to be in ACUs at all times inside the wire.
Most guys that become CSMs are shitbirds because all the good leaders get tired of the bullshit and get out
December 13th, 2011 at 7:59 pm
I read her bio. She zoomed from mail clerk to shit-don’t-stink quicker than you can say, “Here’s the deal, We’ll kill this if you retire now, today.”
December 13th, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Whoa…that Navy skipper reminds me of Mad Marcus Arnheiter!!
December 13th, 2011 at 8:38 pm
I serious think they get that “I’m God” attitude at Bliss. I’ve seen some really good MSG’s go there and come back thinking the Army would shut down if it wasn’t for them. Their holier than thou sense of entitlement is usually over the top
December 13th, 2011 at 10:42 pm
The CSM we had for the first half of my deployment to Afghanistan in 2004, is still in, still a CSM, and still making life miserable for the troops with his nitnoid shit. The CSM that was commandant of the Drill Sergeant school is a real piece of work, read her bio. Or better yet, read between the lines of her bio. An affirmitive action, non-deploying POS.
December 13th, 2011 at 11:11 pm
Just out of curiosity, do any of you guys know retired CSM Eric Haney? He was one of the initial Delta guys, wrote “Inside Delta Force” and then went to Hollywood and became somebody’s something with “The Unit” (note that the SM is a great leader, no officers are ever on missions, and all officers are complete assholes). Anyway, I saw him on “Craig Ferguson” where he said that Iraq was an illegal war and that all soldiers should refuse the “illegal order” to deploy or something to that nature. I have met him a few times and it is clear he believes he walks on water.
December 14th, 2011 at 1:54 am
There were a couple of Command Master Chiefs that I truly respected, and who were very much a lead-by-example type of senior NCO, but many were also of the attitude that “I’ve finally got these stripes so I don’t have to do anything else meaningful” and they always seemed to be in the way rather than useful.
Master Chief Purdy, of VP-10, the CMC when I was there, was a damned fine fellow, and I would have followed him anywhere. It’s a shame so many can’t fill the shoes they are given with their stripes.
December 14th, 2011 at 8:10 am
9 years at war and no deployments. Kick her useless a$$ out.
December 14th, 2011 at 9:53 am
Nice–got a two-fer on the good SGM, did we?
I’m guessing Oprah ain’t exactly burning up the phone lines trying to get King back on to explain why hitting the bottle and hitting that cute little Specialist aren’t exactly helping “good order and discipline.”
Protected Class Card being pulled in 3…2…1…
December 14th, 2011 at 10:29 am
WOW! You Army guys must have some seriously overly promoted, underperforming (perhaps in this case a poor choice of words?) senior NCO’s! Not that there were never any of those in the USAF, but I can honestly say that the dozens of CMS’s/E-9′s I worked with/for/around during my military career were all outstanding both as individuals and in doing there jobs. And never saw any of them doing the kind of weird stuff described here.
December 14th, 2011 at 10:51 am
I won’t say all Sergeant Majors were dirt bags that only thought of themselves while I was in. A majority of them really cared about the soldiers welfare. My last sergeant major never saw combat. We got our marching orders in Korea to deploy to Iraq. He gets out of going so he can go back to the “Old Guard.” He was a complete waste of an E-9 pay if I ever saw one.
December 14th, 2011 at 11:03 am
I just wonder how many promotion and QMP boards CSM King sat on? Is her command going to be “No Slack” on CSM “No Slack”. It is my guess that she’ll submit her retirement paperwork and go quietly into the sunset. Maybe Obama will give her a job as the White House nanny or mail clerk.
December 14th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Just read King’s bio. It says a whole lot of nothin’
December 14th, 2011 at 3:24 pm
She is obviously an affirmative action appointee just like SMA McKinney was and look how that turned out.
December 14th, 2011 at 3:45 pm
wow. this article is some bullshit. Just because she has a corvette? Jealous much?
December 14th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
@ #34 (Liz): No, not jealous at all…in fact, a vintage 75 Stingray sits in my garage as I type this.
If the what I’ve read here (and on some other sites) is confirmed, the SGM needs to be disciplined severely. I’d settle for a Formal 15-6 followed by a permanent GO LOR, and forced retirement at this point.
Additionally, the fact that she, as a senior NCO, has never…as in EVER…deployed to either Iraq or Afghanistan is disgraceful. She has no…ZERO…business as the Commandant of a school where many highly decorated NCO’s pass through each year. She is so far out of her lane, it’s pathetic, as would a male with the same lack of deployment credentials.
December 14th, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Really, Elizabeth? That’s what you got from that post? Does your supervisor down there at Fort Bragg know that you’re spending the Army’s bandwidth on defending derelicts?
December 14th, 2011 at 4:12 pm
On the positive side, the commander has taken to quoting Teddy R. in response to his firing in the comments section of the Navy Times article. I’m sure that Teddy would approve (not). Feel free to stop by for a laugh, a good look at arrogance, and a big reason why I punched out of the Navy after my first enlistment.
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2011/08/navy-beachmaster-co-fired-080511w/
December 14th, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Bobo–I would certainly hope that’s not him making that comment, particularly when the IG is looking as to whether or not to burn him on more shit he’s pulled.
Then again, he was stupid enough to pull this stunt over the well-reasoned objections of his entire command all the way up to the XO, so I guess anything is possible.
December 14th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
You guy should read the comments on the CSM article. You have grunts and combat arms guys asking why the hell she hasn’t deployed and every POG coming out of the wood work making veiled threats about UCMJ for disrespecting a senior nco.
December 14th, 2011 at 6:00 pm
So asking why a senior NCO hasn’t made a single overseas deployment during TWO wars is somehow “disrespectful”? Jesus, they’d probably want me drawn and quartered with some of the questions I asked of the CPO’s and officers back when I was in.
December 14th, 2011 at 6:56 pm
@#36 Skynet is watching eh?
December 14th, 2011 at 7:14 pm
HOLY HELL!!!
I was just reading about CSM King on Wikipedia and found out that she was a Drill Sergeant for 5th Battalion, 3rd BCT Brigade, at Fort Dix, New Jersey in 1984. My basic training company was E-5-3 during the same time. I then remembered a DS King in my company but because she had a different PLT I didn’t know her that well. I then looked her up in my Basic Training book and there she was.
Here is a picture of her as a E5 Drill Sergeant in 1984.
http://cakmakli.smugmug.com/photos/i-wWm99pn/1/L/i-wWm99pn-L.jpg
December 15th, 2011 at 3:46 pm
The Army’s mission is seek out and destroy our nation’s enemies. She was seeking duty positions that did not require getting her hands dirty. But at the same time get promoted cause of her gender and race. Where’s the selfless service in her career?
December 21st, 2011 at 6:51 am
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December 25th, 2011 at 8:41 pm
I can squash the rumors once and for all. I was serving in the Company HQ’s of when she was our 1SG, it started here at Fort Bragg. Her ego got inflated and she was “in her world” TOP BITCH. The Senior enlisted within the Brigade were subjected to no mentorship or NCODPs to learn off from. After the Opera Show the Command wanted a positive spin off from the baby deaths that we were having and still having today. I have seen lower enlisted soldiers with her (CSM King) and Seniors too engaging in severely unprofessional acts. Some have texts and videos of her performing sexual acts while laughing…such craziness right. So now, CSM King who a “non combat” CSM is that unique? She has dodged the deployments for sure..cowardly I say and FINALLY someone will do the right thing and retire her and she will have zero influence on our men and women in Basic Training. EGO and power equals a poor excuse of an NCO…
If you want statements of her leadership bullshit just contact her last unit, Soldiers are just waiting to unleash the evidence…CSM King is a joke…
January 1st, 2012 at 9:59 am
boinking … lol
January 4th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
In the summer of 1956 Brigadier General Perry Hosington, Base Commander at Lincoln AFB Nebraska decided he wanted a lake to run his new speedboat on. So enlisted men from each squadron were assigned the duty on weekends of breaking up and place rocks along the edge of the Lake while it was being built. The local newspaper did an article with a picture of the airman “Volunteering” to work on (their) lake on (their) Saturday & Sunday off. Needless to say there were a number of telephone calls make to the newspaper disputing the “Volunteering” to work on our weekends off. To make a long story short, the story got back to a Four Star General in Omaha name Curtis Lemay the Commander of the Strategic Air Command which resulted in an ass chewing for our base commander and the end of our volunteering. On a final note the Lake was constructed with an island sitting in the middle which allowed the Base Commander and some higher ranking officers to race around the lake at breakneck speeds while the enlisted men and women were trying to fish from the shore.
January 5th, 2012 at 2:13 pm
CSM King’s two graduate degrees came from diploma mills (Alameda College and American Institute of Holistic Theology), which are both unaccredited and give “degrees” for cash. So not only is she boinking a subordinate, she has a drinking problem, her education is fraudulent. This is disgusting. She got the job because of PC BS. I’m sick of this affirmative action BS. There are plenty of MEN, including WHITE MEN who could do better than she ever could.
January 6th, 2012 at 2:07 pm
Anyone who has more than 5 years TIS has seen this type rise to the top before, based on “all thrust and no vector”. No Slack, but plenty Slick….. on the Right Sleeve…….
January 7th, 2012 at 4:13 pm
Drinking problem, ehh? It’s no wonder she avoided deployment. GO #1 would seriously put a dent in her “hobby”.
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THE REAL REASON WHY COMMANDANT OF ARMY
DRILL SERGEANT SCHOOL AT FORT JACKSON
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COMMAND SGT MAJ TERESA KING (FIRST BLACK
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DRINKING AND SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH
LOWER-RANKING SOLDIER – WE ALSO FIND OUT
KING’S MASTERS AND DOCTOR OF DIVINITY
DEGREES CAME FROM UNACCREDITED DIPLOMA
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It seems the female commandant of the Army’s drill sergeant school at Fort Jackson, S.C. has been suspended. That much has been reported in the controlled press. But what you haven’t been told – until now – is the reasons why such drastic action has been taken and what direction the investigation has been going in.
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In the case of King, the reasons she was pulled off the job after being hailed on page one of the New York TIMES when she was the named first female commandant in 2009, are sure to embarrass the Army big-time.
Yes, we know about the allegations she was having a sexual relationship with a lower-ranking soldier, as well as the reports the 50 year-old North Carolina native also had a drinking problem.
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But MCC investigators have checked out King’s educational credentials and come to a shocking conclusion. That’s the real smoking gun. The command sergeant major’s master and doctor of divinity degrees were issued by unaccredited diploma mills! They’re not worth the paper they are printed on.
We found out King’s master’s degree in business management from Alameda College was granted her for “life experience” and cold, hard cash.
Her impressive sounding “doctor of divinity” degree came from the American Institute of Holistic Theology. Once again, this outfit is unaccredited and sells diplomas for money.
It’s safe to say probers are looking into whether or not possession of these so-called college degrees gave King an unfair advantage over others in obtaining promotions and eventually the position as top-NCO at the drill sergeant school.
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Everything’s been “hush-hush” on the Army’s investigation. The Pentagon, ever mindful of the political implications of pushing this case, is reluctant for anything more to come out in public.
“If what they say is true,” a close observer told us, “the cause of racial diversity in top enlisted positions will have been severely damaged.”
Right now, the Army brass would like this scandal to “go away” and King be quietly put out to pasture after 31 years of service. They certainly don’t want it known that this daughter of sharecroppers and one of 12 children born into poverty years ago, has never deployed to a war zone in over three decades of active duty. While many of her students are highly-decorated veterans, having fought in Iraq and/or Afghanistan, King is ineligible to wear a combat duty patch because she never had to go into harm’s way.
January 7th, 2012 at 5:33 pm
1st of all. The fact that She has not deployed and was selected for the 2nd Highest CSM POSITION? OBVIOUSLY the Military selected her for her race and becuase she is Female..
If she was drinking and did no self enroll her self into ASAP and if she was messing with a SUB she is LUCKY she is not being article 15′d.
NCO’s LIke her give the NCO Corps a Bad name.. I was and always will be a Senior Non Com.. (I am retired) and I have NEVER violated my Oath of service or the Creed of the Non Commissioned Officer..
Bottom line is She was a Bad Selection for this position.
January 30th, 2012 at 12:48 am
HEY GUYS LET’S READ BETWEEN THE LINES. I CAN BET YOU THAT MANY IG COMPLAINTS HAVE BEEN MADE ON HER. MANY YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN CAREERS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED ON DAMAGED BECAUSE OF HER USE OF ABUSIVE POWER WITH THE USE OF HER GROUP OF PETS ASSISTING HER. DONT YOU THINK IT IS STRANGE THAT THERE ARENT ANY COMMENTS FROM ANY OF THE FORMER OR PRESENT ASSIGNEES TO THE DRILL SGT SCHOOL UNDER HER COMMAND. I BELIEVE THIS LADY MADE HER OWN ARMY AND DISREGARDED EVERY ARMY REGULATION EVER WRITTEN. INSTEAD OF TRAINING, AND BUILDING THE MORALE OF OUR MILITARY, MOST OF HER TIME WAS DRAGGING GOOD MEN AND WOMEN THROUGH MUD. FURTHER, MORE THEN CSM KING WAS SUSPENSED IN THIS CASE.
March 13th, 2012 at 1:32 pm
I was a DS FROM 05-07 AT FT JACKSON AN NEVER SAW FIRST HAND IMPROPER RELATIONS BETWEEN SUPERIORS AND SUBORDINATES BUT ONLY A FOOL WOULD THINK IT DOES NOT HAPPEN I SPENT OVER 21YEARS IN OUR ARMY. AND AT CSM KINGS RANK SHOULD HAVE EXERCISED A HIGHER LEVEL OF DISCRETION ITS TRULY TROUBLES ME TO HAVE TO SEE THIS WHEN WE HAVE ALL THOSE SUPERIOR. EXTREMELY HARD WORKING DS OUT THERE DOING THE RIGHT THING BUT YET THE TOP STANDARD BEARER IN HOT WATER BRING BACK THE OLD COMADANT ALONG WITH GENERAL TURNER TO RIGHT THE WRONG AND BRING BACK THE HONOR AND RESPECT TO THE DS SCHOOL AND MORE IMPORTANTLY THE DS THEMSELVES. “THIS WE’LL DEFEND”
March 13th, 2012 at 3:21 pm
I guess I got lucky, the two Sergeants Major I had at 3rd Amtracs were great. SgtMaj Gregory and SgtMaj Meza. SgtMaj Meza loved “his boys”. He would wander into the chow hall and walk around asking us how the chow was or go through the line himself. More than once I saw him go talk to the mess NCOIC, GySgt Wolz, if there was something he didn’t like. I remember him liking to come along when we were going to work with the Navy. He was like a big kid when it came to our tractors! He was like a mama Grizzly when it came to “his boys” but he was like a papa Grizzly if you screwed up. He had no qualms about chewing your @zz!
March 13th, 2012 at 3:48 pm
As for the Commander…I can’t picture either of the two Bn COs I had every pulling something like that, especially LtCol Harns. I would have followed him anyplace. He was like a commissioned SgtMaj Meza, always looking out for his Marines. the biggest difference was the Col didn’t have three beautiful daughters like the SgtMaj!?
March 19th, 2012 at 10:39 am
Why there was so much publicity about CSM King is beyond my compensation. If she was truly qualified for the job, appoint her, and expect her to do a superior performance. This should be true regardless of gender.
The story about her mouthing off because they walked on the grass should be the duties of the operations NCO or Field First.
Don’t spit into the wind and try to convince me it’s raining.
March 26th, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Well, I guess all the Crap-House lawyers have spoken and as usual guilty until proven guilty. Apparently the CSM was qualified for the job or the army would not have put her there. There are soldiers, airmen, sailors and marines of all ranks sittting in key positions with no combat tours. That just happens to be the nature of this beast. Got to tell you us americans love a good scandal and ride it for all it’s worth. In every walk of life there is going to be good and not so good, my only problem is why do we have to be the a–holes that have the genuine passion for airing dirty laundry all the time. We already look like idiots to the rest of the world as of late with our non-political savvy as of late.
March 28th, 2012 at 8:01 pm
Well at first I was a staunch defender of this lady because personally I don’t believe going into Combat defines a true soldier who is capable of teaching others how to survive. I only went to Somalia, but I didn’t get a combat patch, where I do believe others in my unit qualified for the combat patch. where I draw the line is the moral deficiency that is being reported and I help up to the highest standards while wearing my BDU’s…yes I said bdu’s because when I was in we wore the woodland camoflague pattern…i think the army is changing to appease people and that is lowering the standards…put them back in the solid od green vietnam era uniforms call them to service discipline them and let them see how strict life can keep this shit from happening again and again…
April 30th, 2012 at 2:20 pm
[...] legal action to get her job restored, according to the Stars & Stripes/Associated Press. We talked about it here, and the conversation sparks up every now and again over there. Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa King still [...]
May 1st, 2012 at 7:16 pm
[...] Army didn't explain why King was given "paid suspension" last December, but Jonn Lilyea broke the code: On SGM King, someone sent us some inside information that I don’t mind sharing. Apparently SGM [...]
May 6th, 2012 at 9:17 pm
I was an still am a DSL at the DSS. CSM is A fucking tyrant and the worst piece of shit I have ever been forced to work for. This woman needs to go the fuck back to whatever hole she has been in her entire damn career. I only have 2 years in combat…. But seriously… Why is the head of the DSS a non deployed, self loving, soldier fucking POUG???? Anyone? And as of yesterday they put her back at the School….WTF because she cried racism and sexism…. Bitch I am a female and I have seen what the fuck you do…. Shut your black ass pussy up…. How is that?
May 8th, 2012 at 10:07 am
Wouldn’t have admitted to being a female. Not a lot of female DSL’s at the DSS. Last thing I heard she will only be there till the 17th of May.
May 8th, 2012 at 10:51 am
Where should I start; the Army sucks!! I don’t say that lightly because I actually love an active duty Soldier Drill Sgt
or the fact that I have family whom previously served in the ranks; I say it because it’s so true!!
I have never seen such disgrace amongst females in the military until I deployed with an Army unit; trust…it’s as bad as bad gets!! Women are categorized by their willingness to lay down w/ these men in positions of power. They are vaginas in ACUs…the heterosexual woman understand the ‘shhhhh’ culture of sleeping w/ squad/platoon leaders to get a look at promotion boards, they understand it’s vagina roll call to be put in positions they are not ready to command…but if she’s ready to lay, she’s squared away for anything from Audie Murphy to Bronze Stars the whore in a velcro uniform doesn’t deserve!! I’m no hater, but the recent stories of the Army versus standards of conduct and discipline make me want to puck and file complaints to support the norm practice of sexism, racist, MOS-ism (seems the Army dislikes MOS that aren’t infantry in the higher posts)…just for GP!! I can tell you, the Army is F**** up from the floor up because y’all refuse to see yourselves…you refuse to accept you’re now the laughing stock of the service branches because you lack integrity, you make mockery of your values and you’re a shame for those whom served before you!! I hope like nothing more…CSM King blows the top off you shady characters in ACUs!!
Oops before I forget, the Army females who cry out against CSM King, are either the whores I mentioned above or lesbians made you couldn’t f*** her for profit; you Army women are all alike; simple-minded bimbos who want to get something for your nothing!! You’re the toilet bowl of women who serve with honor & dignity; sh*t ok fine, since you can’t do it…THIS I’LL DEFEND!! -Signed Air Force MSgt #salute
May 8th, 2012 at 11:22 am
Y’all talk about these combat badges like it’s the tip of the spear; let’s be honest!!!! I saw the people given these coveted combat badges, bronze stars, etc and they didn’t freaking deserve them. A female SSG ‘led’ as Convoy Commander because she had to in order to get an end of tour medal……she ‘sharted’ on every mission in Iraq, couldn’t hold it together during attacks and honestly couldn’t use a force tracker to command of convoy of sh*t from her azz into a pot; yet she’s somewhere in your great “combat patch” Army bragging about her combat experience & readiness…so I’m hoisting the BS flag on what makes for a combat competent Soldier!!
IMO, you all and especially the current supposed ‘female’ attending DSS, take a hard look at yourself, y’all cheat to pin on ranks up to SSG, you go to DSS to masturbate your ego trips and hope for a good look at SFC, you’re a disgrace and I’m pissed you’re a woman in the ranks of our nations greatest military!!!!! You doubt CSM King, you call her a support soldier, but she’s made significant sacrifices/strides to be competitive for her promotions and posts just you’re doing; how dare you…oh wait, “An Army of One”–tracking!! I’m just glad she’s still out running the many miles, has her jumps and such…unlike most of you Army chicks on a profile as long as the marathons I run and I’ve now serve over 15 years!! Check your AR, lead from the front, set the example and don’t try to screw for advancement…I think then you’ll be on her level, until then…STFU & lead these Soldiers better than you were. Until you wake up……THIS I’LL DEFEND!! -Signed Air Force MSgt #salute
May 8th, 2012 at 12:20 pm
Well, it appears we’ve got a live one in comments 63 and 64 above. Posting as “MSG” while claiming to be a MSgt in the Air Force, eh? O-kay. Perhaps you either need to put down the whiskey – or take your morning meds.
Personally, I have more respect for someone who deployed and crapped their pants daily while in-theater than for someone who has studiously avoided deployment since 2001. The fact that you don’t speaks volumes about you, “MSG”.
Oh, and you’re supposed to put your e-mail address in the box marked “mail” if you don’t want it published. If you put it in the box marked “website”, by design you’ve published it for everyone to see.
May 31st, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Wow. It’s hard to imagine going this far and avoiding deployment for this long considering how many have deployed 2-3 times. Oh, MSG- please run all future posts through the gibberish to English translator. All I got out of yours was something about lesbians defending the tip of the spear while sharting on convoys to get promoted so they can run marathon’s.
July 25th, 2012 at 2:58 pm
This situation has certainly generated alot of interest and hostility. For those of you reading who are not military gurus or are having difficulty summarizing the reason for the hubub…maybe I can bring perspective:
1-Why did you appear on the Oprah Show? Personal benefit/gratification-should have said “no thank you” and focused on your new job (humble professional)
2-To have served in the Army since 2001 and not deployed anywhere is quite amazing (someone in personell command has some explaining to do), let alone no deployments for the 15 years before that. Combat experience may not always signify a quality leader, however, it is military culture to expect that everyone “does their time, shares the risk”. Not to do so is considered taboo. If you haven’t been “selected” to deploy, as a professional soldier and leader, you should have volunteered. Typically, the situations you encounter during a combat tour will enhance your ability to prepare others for the same experience…that’s why we expect our leaders in key positions to have had combat experience. It speaks to being “one of us” and to your credibility and dedication to duty.
3-Senior leaders should be experts in counseling and the identification and resolution of personal problems that affect your work. You should have self-referred for help for your drinking problem. If you had any real friends, they would have busted you out long ago and perhaps you could have salvaged your career and your dignity instead of giving the DSS a kick in the nuts. Maybe you should spend some time analyzing why you apparently have no real friends.
4-Even animals understand that you dont shit where you eat. If you are single and want sex, look for it elsewhere, even the most junior leader knows the irreparable damage to unit morale and cohesion as well as your personal credibility and respect that inappropriate relationships can have when conducted inside the unit. Regardless of how indescrete you think you are, everyone in the unit will know, its unavoidable.
5-If you have not done anything wrong, we would expect you to speak up about it, your silence tells volumes. If you stepped in it, we would expect you to stand up in front of all (like you probably taught your subordinates to do) and say aloud for all to hear “I F***d up, I apologize for my behavior and I will face my punishment/immediately retire”. It’s just that simple. If you were not able to serve as a professional, you still have the opportunity to leave like one. In my very first basic leadership course as a Private First Class, I learned “seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actions”….CSM King, its your move.