Posted on Aug 4, 2014
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So im sitting at work in afghanistan and i recieve a email about latest adverse actions conducted on soldiers in afghanistan. But this one story tells me that we as a military need to rethink who we feel should be recognized to lead and train soldiers.A SSG who maltreated, assaulted, and pointed loaded weapons at his Soldiers on multiple occasions received a Field Grade Article 15 and was reduced to SGT and ordered to extra duty and restriction for 45 days. Now when you see something like this why keep this person a nco or even in the army if we are supposed to be fighting the enemy why should we have to worry about our brothers in arms threatening our own lives.
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Woah, personally if I was purposely aimed at by a rifle of a superior, I would not sit there and take it.
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His chain of command made decision and we need to somehow respect that. I'm sure they weighed in those other factors as well. I witnessed numerous NJPs in my 10 years, many punishments of which I disagree on, whether too harsh or too lenient, but I also realized I didn't have all the facts.

I believe this would most likely teach him a lesson or 2, especially in pointing weapons at others. Furthermore he probably won't touch one for a while
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