A new kind of Soldier

Wait wait wait. The only reason I am responding to this is because of the "Females" tag you chose to use to categorize this post.<br><br>How it this any different than a male servicemember being shirtless with his camo pants on?<div><br></div><div>I dont consider myself to be a feminist, but I think that's a little unfair. If we as a society aren't going to have a hissyfit about a shirtless male in partial uniform, then.....we shouldn't get all huffy about a female doing it. Is a shirtless male being disrespectful if he is in partial uniform?</div><div><br></div><div>Should she have posted the pictures publicly? Prrrrrobably not. I cant understand why anybody would post half nekkid pictures of themselves publicly.&nbsp;</div>

Something has been said and the pictures are still up.  I find this to be another Soldier that DGAF.... If I knew where and who her chain of command was/is, I would definitely send this to them as her battle buddies have already sent her the regulation and told her these photos are inappropriate.

SFC Ortiz, indeed she needs to be corrected but I appreciate your efforts to solve the problem at the lowest level. I've seen too many people jump right to the extreme when it could've been solved much easier. Regardless of whether she listened or not, thanks for being an example, it's encouraging.

Besides the hands in the pocket...what's wrong? &nbsp;j/k<br><br>This happened over a year ago and was probably (hopefully) already handled.

I think it is just poor taste and very inappropriate. However, many youngins' are doing this these days. She needs to be pulled aside and counselled. This falls in my realm of what should be common sense, but not everyone shares my views. It also disgusts me that I'm sure she has battle buddies that commented or liked it, yet none will stand up and politely let her know it is inappropriate. What happened to policing up your buddies? In the civilian sector, people are losing jobs and not being hired over what is on their social media accounts. Why do they think the military is any different?

Social Media is a difficult situation. We, the older and followers of doctrine of the Army, look on and tsk tsk.  As Soldiers, we defend the 1st Amendment, but we have difficulty actually allowing full Freedom of speech/expression. I recall as a junior enlisted soldier, probably before this Soldier was born, I had no risk of things such as this occurring. Obviously, looking at me, I had no risk of people having any "sexy" opinion of me.   I am going to drop all rank except Father of four (two girls, two boys)...Have respect for yourself.  Pictures such as these are fine for a select person with whom you have a special relationship, but to broadcast pictures such as these will only bring all of these opinions down on you. My unit trains Battalion and higher units on such lofty ideals as Mission Command, which would say she needs some Commander's Guidance in order to demonstrate Discipline Initiative to propel herself to her best possible outcome. Counseling, not the public stockade that she is enduring right now, is what should have been pursued to correct this behavior/thought process. 

I have mixed feelings about this. While I understand that it is against the UCMJ, I remember before the internet we would take photos of us standing around guys with their shirts off showing off their muscles. Again it is wrong, but it is also nothing new, what is new is the social media. The questions about how to handle social media is still something new. While soldiers should always lead my example, is it right for us to pry into peoples personal pages? That is the same as going through their photo album book. While she may be expressing herself in ways we dont agree with, looking over her page she never does these things at her unit, but takes these photos in the privacy of her own home. If my NCO visited my home and happen to see a photo like this of me in a photo album would he be allowed to punish me, or would he simple council me? Truthfully if I was her NCO I would and someone brought this to me, I would probable start off with asking her not to publicly post the photos, to keep them for only friends. 

Honestly to be punished for taking such pictures would be against what we fight for our freedom! At the same time we shouldn't allow soldiers to just think that they can do what they want without any kind of action taken against the soldier. I agree with Amanda Hicks if it is ok for males to do it then in turn should be ok for females. Either way it is really not for us to judge a person on what they post on there social media. I don't agree with the picture but at the same time I don't think that she should be lets say kicked out or severely punished over such photo.

SFC Ortiz,

Why is it wrong for her to post them but alright for you to post them?&nbsp;