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In reply to the discussion: Teacher gets 30 days jail for raping 14-year old student who later killed herself [View all]Flying Squirrel
(3,041 posts)And a disciplinary charge COULD have therefore been made. In practice, though, it's pretty much an automatic pay grade increase with time and the higher-ups make little distinction between anyone from E-1 to E-4 pay grade (Private through Specialist) unless one is promoted to Corporal which is a Junior NCO (non-commissioned officer) and requires extra leadership training. I guess the point here to me is that by not making the charge, the Army is in fact being very egalitarian - being gender-blind as well as color-blind. If the specialist were male then there almost certainly would have been no charge made; so, if there had been a charge made because the specialist was female, it would probably have been perceived to be reverse discrimination. The female specialist in question would probably not have wished for this kind of attention.
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