Army investigates 'racial Thursday' slurs
Source: UPI
Army investigates 'racial Thursday' slurs
By Amy R. Connolly | March 19, 2015 at 2:22 PM
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army is investigating claims Fort Wainwright soldiers have free reign to use racial slurs every Thursday as a way to encourage camaraderie.
Dubbed "racial Thursday," soldiers in the 2nd Platoon, C Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment say they are allowed to use racial slurs and make racist comments with impunity, the Army Times reported. Two anonymous soldiers told the Army Times the event is a tradition and, although officially forbidden, it is ongoing.
U.S. Army Alaska spokesman Lt. Col. Alan Brown confirmed an investigation was launched into the allegation.
"The nature of those allegations are not at all commonplace about how soldiers behave and how they're treated up here," he said.
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JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)America is. And if America would stop with this good case of the stupids - we wouldn't have threads or ops like this.
That said - thanks for posting this.
I'm paying their salaries and they need to knock it off.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Nothing encourage camaraderie more than being called a racially derogative term!
Judi Lynn
(160,540 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)tblue37
(65,357 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Twenty years ago, the division EO office would have fired the entire chain of command of 3-21 Infantry for even thinking of ignoring "racial Thursday."
Oktober
(1,488 posts)As is, it sounds like a dumb 'tradition' carried on by a few 'old timers' in a very small group.
I would be more concerned if it was BN or BDE 'Racial Thursday'.. This sounds like a couple of idiots who think they are carrying on some grand thing that is better left in the trash.
I'm curious what they mean by 'officially forbidden'...
In short, it could be as full blown awful as the headline tries to make out but based on experience, I suspect not.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Since their food is supposedly Italian, they could follow it up with "Fascist Fridays".
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)It's bad enough Don Young's been continually re-elected for forty-one years now...but THIS?