Infantry drill sergeants suspended after sexual assault allegations from female recruits

If wrongdoing makes it outside your BN chain of command then it is highly likely that what they did was founded. Unfounded complaints don't make it past Battalion commanders because they deal with it at the lowest level. Not all Drill Sergeants are high speed low drag professionals. If they were we wouldn't be having this discussion. Also they are not teenage girls, they are grown women who volunteered to fight and die as Infantrymen. A large problem in the military is marginalizing other Soldiers accomplishments because they are the wrong MOS, wrong Sex, wrong Orientation, or wrong Faith. A soldier is a soldier until they prove themselves to be less.

SSG Shawn North - Negative. Issues often times make it outside of the BN, especially those involving things such as SHARP and sexual misconduct. The army is always attempting to save face and many times the careers of good soldiers are ruined even without any evidence to prove the allegations against them. I have personally watched this happen to great people. It can be sugar coated all day long but the truth of the matter is that many people saw events like this occurring when the decision came down to allow females into the combat arms fields. We predicted it. Why? Because we have watched females pull the same crap just working in the same squadrons as combat arms males. I'm not marginalizing anything. I'm saying that at this time I am skeptical. I have seen far too many females cry wolf only to see that when the truth came to light they were still walking around without any repercussions and a man's career was ruined by false allegations. I will remain skeptical until the facts are released.

I agree with being skeptical. I agree with what we all predicted would happen. Having been a drill just last year my personal chain of command up to the brigade level was all about processing all allegations the right way. Immediate suspension of the Drill, followed by 15-6 investigation and either founded or unfounded. Unfounded in my experience did not affect any of the Drills that I worked with. I guess I should have said that, in my personal experience.

SSG Shawn North - Okay, so I suppose my only question is, why exactly was there a need to attack my character over my skepticism?

In the article it says "All five drill sergeants identified in the investigation."

SSG Shawn North - In which article? I have read this one (Navy Times) multiple times and several other articles (approximately 10 different ones) on this incident and none of them state the number 5 or five. That is why I asked. Which article and who was the author or distributer?
Thanks.

The army WTF moments article on their facebook page. Probably not the most reliable but that is where I saw the quote above.

Blame the Drills, a trainee is a trainee until they signed into there first unit. I was on Ft. Leonard Wood MO when incident happened. Trainee's were graduates of OSUT and didn't ship out right away, a DSGT hooked up with them at a hotel while they were on pass. My 1SG said this to all his drills: Don't F k them, don't hit them and don't take their money and I will have your back.