I find it disgusting that our service men & women, those who fight & die for our freedoms, are denied even the most basic of freedoms.
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Military service = not free
You can disagree with the content of the concert, but when in the early phases of one’s military service are you free to do anything other than be stuck in barracks? Basically when you’re doing shit work or training. Period. “It sounded like I was being pressured, although I was given a choice” said one person. Yeah – you can go to a crappy concert with content you disagree with or you can be in your barracks. That’s not punishment. That’s just the nature of the biz.
More or less the same thing happened when I was in basic training, circa 1986, every Sunday. The four of us that normally didn’t want to go to church would not have morons traipsing over our work, so it that 90 minutes we got things pretty shiny, with a nice, quiet interlude to ourselves – about the only private moments we got for that three month stretch. No real news here, unless the DI was a first-class asshat about being in their face about not being Christian or something.
This is pretty normal. Whether it is right or wrong is debatable, but there are a lot of programs that the Army spends a lot of money on to help build up a soldiers mental and spiritual fitness.
I would spend the money differently, but I’m not in charge.
I *am* a Christian – Methodist – by upbringing and this never happened to me while I was in the military. Services were offered but certainly never mandatory and *never* forced on anyone that I saw. If anything like that had happened in my presence I’d have been in the CMC’s office so fast it might not have a door any longer.
When I was in basic, you had to go to church on Sunday, but you did not have attend a service. For us heathens, there was a room we could sit in and meditate/reflect on whatever we wanted. The only rules were no sleeping & no talking.
This article is talking about soldiers who are no longer in basic training, which means a lot of the basic BS should be over with.
Now, I could be wrong here, but requiring soldiers to attend a religious event during the workday is a big no-no (especially when they should be in training), and requiring them to spend liberty time to attend such an event is also a big no-no. Attending a concert is not military business, it’s a free time event.
The proper way to handle such an event is to tell people that if they want go, fall in. If they don’t (& it is during the workday), then they can join a work party on post. If the concert is during liberty hours, they should be free to go on liberty.
And finally, why the hell is the military spending money on concerts?! If these groups want to sing for the troops, they can sign up with the USO, or volunteer their time to play for the troops.