A female master sergeant reenlisting wore a hand puppet during her swearing in ceremony to amuse her children. A video was made of the ceremony and posted to Facebook.
Not all vieweres were amused.
The sergeant lost her position, the colonel was demoted then retired, and the person who took video was also repositioned.
Story at Daily Caller.
Original reporting at Air Force Times. with this photo.
YouTube videos are not good.
Commenters universally blame Obama's distain for military and concomitant degradation. Do you think that's a fair assessment?
By way of contrast, Daily Caller published another post I Spent Four Days In The Field With The National Guard -- Here's What I Learned by Joseph Lafave that describes the present day National Guard as remarkably professional and exceedingly demanding with certain advantages over regular forces while maintaining hilarious sense of humor throughout. Suggesting it's laughter and humor that make the hardships imposed bearable.
I suppose there is a time and place for that, but not while swearing in.
I found this post particularly interesting.
It matches every other work environment that I see, except a bit more extreme.
The guys at Denver Pizza Co. today show the same seriousness / humor.
The guys at Golden Triangle Auto today show the same seriousness / humor.
Doing an important ceremony with at touch of whimsy is one thing. Video taping the solemn ceremony is another. Posting it to Facebook yet another. I think that was her mistake.The humor they share with each other is kept to themselves while the image they project is pure seriousness.
9 comments:
I agree there is a time and place, and that mostly the wrong was posting to the public, which isn't the place. That said, lets consider for a moment that both of those people were punished with a harsher sentence than Hillary Clinton.
Okay, she did something stupid. But a career ender? I don't see it.
Maybe there's someone at this site who's served in the military and has another take.
Maybe there's someone at this site who's served in the military and has another take.
That's a silly take. Their punishment was handed down by their chain of command, which is senior members of the military. If you disagree with the punishment, then deferring to only other members of the military will not change the results.
Leland, I understand the decision is final. I was just wondering whether having a military background might incline one toward a more severe reaction to her infraction. More severe than my civilian reaction. That was obviously the case for her superiors. Did they even have a choice? Perhaps military law mandated her firing.
They can always find something in the UCMJ to punish someone. For myself, even though I can appreciate the humor, the occasion has a seriousness requiring a certain decorum. That said, this is overzealous punishment for the infraction.
The military is not there for fun and games.
The level of immaturity shown by those two is unbelievable. The officer in charge should have slapped that puppet off her hand. Gone Patton on her dumb ass.
I guess those days are gone. Kind of like West Point graduating and commissioning an out and avowed communist.
You want to Barney the Purple dinosaur your re-enlistment oath, then that isn't the place to do it. It's a time honored tradition which requires a level of seriousness not shown here. Given that, I wouldn't have given out such a harsh penalty. Maybe a good dressing down and a fuckton of PT to shake out any complacency cobwebs, but demotion and retirement?
I can’t believe the commie is still in the Army. His fingers and toes must have been highly crossed when he took the oath. His heart too.
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