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...ABERDEEN, Maryland: Army officials are denying claims by five white female army recruits at the Aberdeen Proving Ground who say they were pressured by military investigators to claim falsely that they were sexually abused by their superiors. "I agreed to tell them what they wanted to hear," said recruit Kathryn Leming, "in order that they leave me alone." Darla Hornberger, a 30-year-old private from Oklahoma, supported Leming's assertion, sayin g: "They put it down on paper. All I did was sign it. (They) had what they wanted in their heads and that's what they...
Hoster's accusation could do more damage to the Army's image than the multiple probes now under way of drill sergeants who allegedly assaulted female trainees at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground and other bases. Last week General Reimer told a Senate committee that among those 170 trainers there are "a few bad apples." But Hoster's allegations, if true, suggest a more pervasive rot. "Because of Aberdeen, the non-commissioned officers are the part of the Army under the most scrutiny for sexual harassment," says military sociologist Charles Moskos. "When the sergeant major of the Army...
...year veteran who served with the infantry in Vietnam, he rose through every enlisted Army leadership position before reaching its peak. Four of his brothers have worn Army green and his identical twin James is sergeant major of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, overseeing troops at Aberdeen and the Army's other training bases...
Unlike the rookie soldiers who came forward at Aberdeen, Hoster, 39, is no raw recruit. A Bronze Star winner and ex-drill sergeant, she was one of the youngest sergeant majors ever. Hoster told TIME last week that McKinney called her in May 1995 and, even though he didn't know her well, asked her to be his p.r. adviser. Within weeks of taking the job, Hoster says, his "Jekyll and Hyde behavior"--personable and professional in public, enraged and profane in private--turned her life into "a living hell." Things only got worse in March when Zuberi...
Hoster actually called the Army's harassment hotline in November but hung up without giving her name after a frustrating exchange with its untrained staff (such calls have sparked more than 1,100 Army criminal probes since last fall). About that same time, McKinney went to Aberdeen to tell the troops that the Army knows how to fight sexual harassment. "The system we have works," McKinney told them. And then he urged abused Army women to speak up. "If soldiers want to fix the issue," he said, "they must come forth...