Originally Posted by
Shackeng
“bring your entire service into disrepute”
Huh?
On what basis do you draw that conclusion?
This officer did not get to his rank without knowing the rules or the undoubted outcome of his public plea for accountability. Whether you agree with him or not is irrelevant. How many of us would sacrifice our careers (and pensions) to ensure that an issue about which we felt so strongly required public debate?
I only hope his pleas are not in vain, but experience suggests otherwise.
Oh course they will be in vain. This will be forgotten by Monday. That said he may have had a point, but he knew he was committing career suicide. The best way for him to have done this was resign and then speak out. Or better yet stick it out another few years and get to the rank to actually be able to make positive changes. But in reality he probably already knew he had gone as far as was ever going to go.
All he has done is make it seem acceptable by all those junior ranks to speak out, criticise, and generally whinge on social media about their senior NCO’s and officers they don’t agree with or don’t like they way they are treated.
You can’t have it both ways. He was ok because his message was so important and valid, but Private so and so moaning about Captain Cloggs being a moron wasn’t. But then if Captain Cloggs really is a moron, then does that make his social media rant ok? And who do we get to judge whether Captain Cloggs is an idiot? Convene a panel, or just a show of hands?