Sergeant needs to remember she is a sergeant

Here is a not-pleasant story about a soldier who has undergone harassment because her name sounds Muslim-like, SFC Naida Hosan.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/05/09/soldier-says-she-was-harassed-over-muslim-name.html?ESRC=army-a.nl

A couple of things: First, soldiers can be d_cks. There is no getting around that. Second, she is a sergeant first class and should know how to handle d_ck remarks. In her progression from E1 to E7, she should have had several classes on hardassness; she should have learned right-this-f’n-second-counseling when somebody – anybody – makes a denigrating remark. Fix the problem when the problem happens.

But then, maybe I’m thinking like an old NCO; at least a 4th Infantry Division brigade commander would think so. No more informal, up-against-the-wall, close quarters counseling. That kind of corrective action is now “hazing.”

From The Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Files

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