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| Army suspends drill sergeant school chief |
| 2011-12-16 |
| The first female commandant of the Army’s school for drill sergeants at Fort Jackson, S.C., has been suspended from her position, according to an Army official. Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa L. King was placed on suspension pending further review and investigation, a spokesperson for Initial Military Training Center of Excellence said. King, a 28-year Army veteran, gained notoriety when she took the helm at the Drill Sergeant School in September 2009. In 2010, King was named to Oprah Winfrey’s “20 women rocking the world” power list and appeared in the October 2010 issue of Oprah Magazine, noted WIS-TV, a local television station that was first to report that King was suspended. “She is still the commandant of the school. She is not carrying out the duties as commandant,” said Stephanie Slater, a spokesperson for the command. Slater would not elaborate on the circumstances behind King’s suspension, citing the ongoing investigation and King’s privacy. King rose to become the first female first sergeant named to oversee the headquarters company of the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, N.C., a unit with 500 paratroopers, 22 sergeants major, 22 colonels and three general officers. She has served in South Korea and Europe, and held jobs at NATO and the Pentagon, yet despite those accomplishments, she has not deployed to either Iraq or Afghanistan through 10 years of war. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #14 I echo that too - not the gender but the person. Anyone that has been through the last 10 years and hasn't deployed, well that's suspicious. Especially senior NCOs. I know people in the Guard that have been deployed 4 times. Its there, all she had to do was ask. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2011-12-16 23:16 |
| #13 I've had female superiors that I respected and would hire as my superior - if given the choice. It's the person, not the sex. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-12-16 21:45 |
| #12 I dunno. Our last command sergeant major was female. She did a good job, and went on to a Marine aviation unit that deployed. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-12-16 21:11 |
| #11 Female, That's enough. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-12-16 19:43 |
| #10 You peeked. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2011-12-16 17:47 |
| #9 Sounds like she is a protected species Eric Holder's people. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-12-16 16:30 |
| #8 Hmm a CSM and never deployed? Sounds like she is a protected species and the "boinking" probably went UP and down the chain of command. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2011-12-16 14:12 |
| #7 Apparently SGM King was boinking a subordinate and had a serious drinking problem. Would this boinking be in the traditional sense, or alternative sense? IYKWIMAITYD |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2011-12-16 12:42 |
| #6 Apparently SGM King was boinking a subordinate and had a serious drinking problem. |
| Posted by: gromky 2011-12-16 10:48 |
| #5 The next sounds you hear will be dozens of pundits, columnists and bloggers burning or otherwise deleting their past articles. I'll go with fraternization and other conduct-unbecoming. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-12-16 10:07 |
| #4 Probably something very serious---otherwise it would be non-extension rather than suspension. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-12-16 10:01 |
#3 This link says:King has the nickname of “Sergeant Major No Slack” after the “noslack” vanity plates on her black Corvette. |
| Posted by: gromky 2011-12-16 08:25 |
| #2 Probably called it a "whiteboard" instead of a "dry-erase board" or something. |
| Posted by: gorb 2011-12-16 02:32 |
| #1 Zipper failure? |
| Posted by: badanov 2011-12-16 00:37 |