It's total horseshit.
A soldier under their command, slipped a slide into the presentation beforehand that some may have found to be offensive in nature toward blacks. The soldier in question was himself black. Jenio and Puckett had no idea the presentation had been tampered with before they started.
Based on the info and evidence at hand, this is PC BS run amuck.
I don't buy that for one minute, The BC and CSM job is to review those slides and aprove them and it's the job of who ever is giving the brief to double check them before the brief and check the equipment to make sure it all works and it's correct. If a person fucked with those slides, then that person would have been dealt with.
I don't think this just b/c of a poawer point, there is a lot more to the story!
One of them is mine.
Don't know the LTC in question, but I do know CSM Puckett personally. He is one of the finest NCO's in the Army today, is the epitome, word for word of the Ranger Creed and one of the most exemplary, professional Warriors you will ever have the privilege of meeting or could possible serve with.
As Loon stated, this whole thing is akin to tossing the baby out with the bathwater / total PC horseshit.
The whole thing wreaks and is another reminder why I got out when I did rather than go on to the SMA at Bliss when that carrot was dangled in front of me.
Fuckin idiots.
The Army has shifted big time from what was the normal of your day and what is the normal of today. I don’t like it but it is the way it is now.
If there was some racial things going on in the unit and being over looked or there was some issues that did not meet up with the Army’s “values” and the CSM and BC did not work to solve those issues or they did not stop what ever that problem was, then the buck stops with them.
That CSM’s job is to insure the enlisted men are being treated fairly and to resolve issue that go against Army regs and “values” and if an issue came up he should be advising that BC on how to take care of it. If they failed to do so, then they should have been relieved, regardless of what their background was before that.
Again I think there is a lot more to what happened!