There was a headline today about
soldiers leaving army due to misconduct on the rise. If you have
been paying attention to the news for awhile there has been a string
of general officers that have had to resign for differing reasons
including drugs or sexual misconduct. Having served in the army it
is not hard to understand that officers and the enlisted have
problems. The thing that has happened it seems to me is that in
especially the officers corp this kind of behavior slowly became
tolerated, sort of like what happened in the Catholic Church. The
pedophile epidemic didn't just happen over night. It was overlooked
and tolerated by the hierarchy, and some of these pedophiles rose in
the church they accepted this culture and even condoned it. The same
thing has happened in the military. You don't have sexual deviants,
and drug users just pop up. Their fellow brethren knew they were
there but over looked their behavior. I am not sure how this is going
to be cleaned up, but for this country's sake it better be. Just
because these people have risen to a high level they should not be
treated with kid gloves, but booted out of the service.
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