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...military's greater problem: a seeming inability to police itself. In spite of leaders' repeated "zero tolerance" pronouncements--concerning political extremism, racism, sexual harassment and hazing--authorities are just as often forced to acknowledge a breakdown in the chain of command. Last week a sixth soldier at Maryland's Aberdeen training ground was brought up on charges of sexually harassing a trainee, while the Citadel, a military-training school, is in the midst of its own hazing scandal involving female cadets. Blood pinning cannot be written off as the overexcitement of young Marines: one video plainly shows a first lieutenant...
...they have crossed all the t's and dotted all the i's when this issue is revisited before Congress." Sexual harassment in the Army came to national attention last November, when evidence arose of a series of abuses in one company at the Army's ordnance school at Aberdeen, Maryland. Thompson notes that the harassment problem in that instance was more alarming, since it seems to have involved the complicity of a company commander and ignorance of the problem several levels above that. Says Thompson: "At Fort Wood, it seems to be a horizontal problem, not a vertical...
This doesn't excuse the Japanese, it just throws a particularly nasty light on the goings-on at Fort Leonard Wood and the Aberdeen Proving Ground. Generally speaking, sexual abuse is visited on women of the other side. One's own women are supposed to be sacrosanct; in fact, the most hallowed argument against having women in combat is that our men would be so busy protecting them that they wouldn't have time to do any serious fighting. When U.S. troops marched to the chant, "Two, four, six, eight,/ Rape, kill, mutilate"--which they did until well into...
...certainly nothing fine. We're talking about having one's clothes ripped off and being passed from pawing hand to pawing hand (Tailhook, 1991). About being raped and then told by one's assailant that "if you ever tell anyone about this, I'll slit your throat" (Aberdeen Proving Ground, 1996). This is not about sex and its regulation or lack thereof. This is about...
...other lesson of Aberdeen is that the U.S. military may well be, to use the classic military terminology, fubar, or screwed up beyond all recognition. Some forms of abuse--like sexual harassment--have been defined by the law as criminal. But the soldier who turns on his comrades with savage intent commits a far graver category of crime. Whether he shoots them in the back or assaults their bodies with his own, he's confusing his fellow soldiers with the foe--and the word for this is treason. When a woman can't trust her drill sergeant, neither...