Army Sergeant Faces a Year in Jail Partly for Calling a Soldier Fat
I have ever seen anyone get court martialed and face a year in jail for incidents like this before:
If found guilty, the sentencing guidelines call for up to a year in jail and a bad conduct discharge. The charges against her stem from three incidents, which Kman described in his opening statement.
Stars & Stripes
Pointing a 9mm pistol at another sergeant during preliminary marksmanship instruction at the range near Allied Joint Force Command Naples in November 2017 constituted dereliction of duty, he said.
“She said, ‘Stay still so I can find my sight picture,’” the prosecutor said. “The government doesn’t care if SFC Barboza thought she was being funny.”
Repeatedly calling a specialist fat in front of other soldiers was maltreatment, he said, and Barboza had committed disrespect of a noncommissioned officer when she touched the hair of an African-American staff sergeant and made a derogatory comment.
You can read more at the link.
We can assume that any enemy that captures soldiers will not body shame them or touch their hair. But we can see a real danger from opposition psyops taunting soldiers for their appearance. We may need an addendum to the Geneva Convention.
Well, she did refuse non-judicial punishment so it’s her fault this went to trial. She sounds like a destructive influence on the unit anyway…pointing a non-loaded weapon at a person on the range to “sight it in” it pretty moronic. If she’s that stupid, it probably shows in every other aspect of her work.
Pointing a gun at somebody for a joke is grounds for severe punishment… starting at an ass-beating.
Her dumbass thought a court martial would be more lenient than NJP?
She was acquitted… https://www.stripes.com/news/jury-acquits-senior-nco-accused-of-pointing-weapon-at-soldier-and-calling-another-fat-1.563675
I’m going to assume at least six of the members of the jury recognized the fat and nasty complaints were actually justified. And frankly, I see this being brought to trial as a command failure in the 2nd NATO Signal Battalion. It ought to have been dealt with much more quietly; but there are either craven or racist people in her chain of command.
What has the Army devolved into?
Click-bait senses tingling… must fix headline… punish GI for such trickery…
Well in the big scheme of things, all of the involved have good documentation to support their PTSD claim. A win, win, win for everyone.
Setnaffa’s link didn’t work for me…but I found the Stripes article here:
https://www.stripes.com/news/jury-acquits-senior-nco-accused-of-pointing-weapon-at-soldier-and-calling-another-fat-1.563675
Arrgh, nevermind it was the same hyperlink…some reason it didn’t work for me when I tried it the first time