Fort Hood report shows readiness trumped SHARP program

In almost every unit I was in during my Active Duty career, the SHARP and EO Reps were the biggest offenders. It became a running joke in most units. Whether the leadership knew this or cared was always a mystery to me.

As a man who grew up in a family mostly of women, and currently a husband and father of a teenaged daughter, I don't need government lectures and powerpoint presentations to tell me how to treat women. I have always tried to share my values on this subject with my Soldiers, as some of them might be husbands and fathers one day, and wouldn't want anyone messing with their wives and daughters.

I retired in 1998 when it was still EO and Sexual Harassment. At battalion level it was typically a black female E-6 that held the position or an NCO that wasn't deployable. As an MP we always had females in the unit that we worked alongside daily. My soldiers knew that I expected them to treat each other as brothers and sisters.

SSG(P) (Join to see) - My first unit the EO rep for BN was a walking EO complaint...I don't know how he even was still in the Army once I saw all the stuff in his file when I was in S2. He did lose his clearance over some shit.

The point of SHARP shouldn't be telling people how to treat others - by the time people are 18 if they can't treat others humanely and not sexually assault, they probably shouldn't be among society. SHARP should be about telling people here's what sexual harassment is, here's what sexual assault is. Here's your resources. Here's what you can do as a bystander if you see it. And addressing more that anyone can be a victim and anyone can be a perpetrator - it's not a gender specific crime.

But sexual predators are out there - and they slip in because they generally don't get caught until multiple victims later. In WLC - we were doing EO. SHARP didn't exist yet. Rape came up and "marital" rape came up. This dude in my class says "I can't rape my wife. She's my wife. If I want sex, she's giving it to me." I blew up at him. The SGL had to shut it down and put us on break. That was 2007.

The issue is sexual predators don't care about anything but gaining power over those they view as weak. No PPT is going to stop that. We'll never have zero cases of sexual assault ever.

SFC Don Vance - And that's how it should be. When I was in ROTC 1990-1992, my class was so close that we were more like brothers and sisters. We learned together, went to the field together, partied together, drank together, changed in the same room, etc. We were all on the same team and had eachothers' backs. Mess with one, you messed with all. Most of us are still as close, 30 years later.

Many more MSG (Join to see), its called sensationalism!