SHARP
It comes from the Secretary of Army Directive Memo 2013-21 DTD 7 NOV 2013. Para 3.B.(2) states: No further action is required if a commissioned or warrant officer who has been convicted of a sex offense has already been subject to an elimination action for that conviction and has been retained.
As you know all Special (BCD) and General Court Martials com with a decision to seperate and a characterization of service. So as I read this memo, that was seperation action, and they did not identify him for seperation.
Now Para 3.B.(1) does say that Commanders will initiate a seperation, but again, I think that based off the title of the story and the fact that the Court Martial did not identify him for seperation, this will not apply.
SGM also with these types of action in the military it brings us back to another post from SPC Adam Perkel.
Agreed.
Standards are meant to be applied uniformly.
APFT is another such example.
Great post SGM by the way.
If someone wants to rape or sexually assault someone regardless of how much training you shove down their throats, it's not going to stop them from wanting/ needing that control and power over their victims. People who want/ need to do those types of things to another human being, needs some SERIOUS help with their issues. The SHARP training program the Army has designed is by far, one of the worst programs out there in the Army; it's a check the block type of program. That training they give out every single time does not prepare a victim for the type of things they will have to endure through out the whole process of the Court-Martial. There are so many gaps in that program.
There are so many females and males who get away with charges in cases of sexual assault and rape all the time regardless of their rank. I mean look at the statistics they put out for the year 2012. It is horrible that a LTC got away and is still in our ranks, it's not right by any means. I just wish the Army would open it's eyes and actually "CARE" to really fix the problem, and stop letting their Commanders run the show when it comes to Court-Martials for sexual assault and rape cases. A judge can find the defendant guilty and then regardless if "all" evidence proves them guilty that Commander of the defendant can say their not-guilty and everything is wiped clean. I don't think those Commanders understand how badly they effect the victim when they say not guilty or maybe they do and just don't care.
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