Posted on Jan 28, 2022
Sexual harassment is now officially a crime in the US military
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Seriously, thought it had been with sexual assault. Even back under Bush Jr. in the Navy, careers were being upended of sexual harassment. Curious, do these new Regulations provide any framework for protection against false claims? I hold huge reservation against any system that designates the accuser automatically as the victim without evidence to back the claim. This is why I have such a concern. I was in Corporate America for both of the big sexual harassment eras before and after the turn of the century. While all sexual harassment claims should be taken seriously, the system that HR Departments banded together to create painted the accused as guilty, leaving no avenue to prove their innocence. As such, the accused were summarily fired, blackballed, ridiculed and harassed, both publicly and online.
The problem was that the system was very sexist. In the days of old, it favored the man. That had to change. Instead of bringing equality, the HR Dept's developed a purely woman centric system for sexual harassment. It was so one-sided that men were not allowed to actually file their own sexual harassment cases. It was not long before vindictive women began to falsely accuse men. I worked for a global telecom giant and it was extremely bad there for a while. To just be accused, falsely or not, was literally the complete end of your career. Only when several cases of wrongful termination, brought forth from those false claims, did the corporations get their HR Departments back to a more judicial system of innocent till proven guilty. A few years later, this dangerously weighted system was instituted at every college campus across America. The same pitfalls occurred. The Duke Lacrosse Team false accusation in aught six comes to mind. We have seen the METOO movement turned it into a political weapon. False accusations for political gains go unpunished.
So what are our Brothers and Sisters, who are Actively Serving, going to be facing? A fully weighted system where the accused is automatically guilty, or one based upon the fair doctrine of innocent till proven guilty?
The problem was that the system was very sexist. In the days of old, it favored the man. That had to change. Instead of bringing equality, the HR Dept's developed a purely woman centric system for sexual harassment. It was so one-sided that men were not allowed to actually file their own sexual harassment cases. It was not long before vindictive women began to falsely accuse men. I worked for a global telecom giant and it was extremely bad there for a while. To just be accused, falsely or not, was literally the complete end of your career. Only when several cases of wrongful termination, brought forth from those false claims, did the corporations get their HR Departments back to a more judicial system of innocent till proven guilty. A few years later, this dangerously weighted system was instituted at every college campus across America. The same pitfalls occurred. The Duke Lacrosse Team false accusation in aught six comes to mind. We have seen the METOO movement turned it into a political weapon. False accusations for political gains go unpunished.
So what are our Brothers and Sisters, who are Actively Serving, going to be facing? A fully weighted system where the accused is automatically guilty, or one based upon the fair doctrine of innocent till proven guilty?
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MCPO Roger Collins
Excellent post, Sam. We had similar experience over the years. Military and civilian careers.
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PO1 Sam Deel
Yes, Sir. Just hope that innocent Service Members aren't caught up in the learning curve. During the Administration of 44, there was a paradigm shift in a great many things focused around Fraternization Regs. The shift was towards a more relaxing of the Regs. I was in that Active part of the Navy that is embedded in the Navy Reserves, so perhaps my outlook on the matter was skewed from that. We had husband and wife teams within our own Squadron. In the Corporate world, an unrelated third party can make sexual harassment claims. I know that from experience. I dared to complement a Lady on meeting her weight loss goal (my wife ate the time was struggling). Some senior member of her group overheard in the din of the cubicle farm and it was a nasty trip to HR to be branded as some sexual predator. The only thing that saved me was not the testimony of the woman I complimented, but the actual acting President of the company who liked my work ethic and personal morals. He stated that I was now a marked man by HR and they would be watching me closely. And watch me like a hawk, they did. Wonderful company, but HR made it a very toxic environment. And I was not the only one that HR had targets on. I saw this in other corporations that I worked in, including one where the "victim" turned out to be the predator. Just trying to bring up awareness of that double-edge sword.
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Thank you my friend MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. for posting the perspective from task and purpose which I receive via email that sexual harassment is now officially a crime in the military. UCMJ would have to be adjusted to ensure that charge is included,
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