I have been in a new unit here at Fort Bragg, NC for about 10 months. Since I have been here I have been negatively targeted because of my ethnicity.
I am a mid career soldier, a NCO with 6 years in the Army.
Since I have been in I have been to airborne school, air assault, expert infantry, advance airborne. I have competed in several soldier boards and have won on the company, battalion and even one brigade level competition. I have always worked very hard, followed orders and completed task to or above the standard. My PT scores are always above 290, I'm 10 minutes early to every formation and always in the right uniform. My ratings and monthly counseling in the past have always been excellent.
10 months ago when I was promoted I was sent to this new unit here on fort bragg and since then I have had nothing but problems with this 1SG.
He addresses me as m_th_r F_ck_r, or B_tch and I have noticed that he does it to many people in the unit. He has put me on Charge of quarters and other duty roster more than anyone else in the unit. I have started counting and in the past 10 months I have spent 19 weekends (either a saturday or sunday) on the CQ desk pulling 24 hour duty. When I asked him about it he lit me up, put me at parade rest, slammed his office door and chewed my ass for literally 45 minutes. He told me to never question him. Since then I have just driven on with the mission and sucked it up, but he keeps coming with it. I have been put on additional duties, he has assigned me additional duties as the training room NCO, the ammo NCO, weapons NCO, NBC NCO. special pops PT NCO.. all of this on top of running my own section.
The weird thing is whenever anyone (of his race) in the unit is given additional duties they are taken off of the Charge of Quarter roster. Of course I do not want to quesion him on this and when I have asked other senior NCO's in the unit about the situation their advice is to stay as far out of his path as possible because he will crush anyone who gets in his way. (most of the unit including the company commander is truly afraid of opposing the 1SG)
It is so completely obvious that there are racial as well as other issues with this 1SG, however nobody is willing to take the heat and say anything.
My last attempt at making sense of how he runs things ended with a painful ass chewing and threats.. (truly ungrounded) at taking my rank. In addition to the ass chewing I just ended up with more **** work and duties. Additionally, he will call me into his office have me stand at parade rest while he sits in his chair and asks me questions for 30 + minutes at a time. He'll ask me if I like the additional duties he has given me, he'll ask what I think of other soldiers in the unit, he'll ask me things like why are you such a dumb ass. This one is really amusing, seeing how I have busted my ass in night school and will finish my masters in education this year. He has a GED thats it.
Anyway, I can go on but my questions are:
1. Do I have to put up with being called B_tch and Mother F....
2. Who can I talk to without him retaliating on me or others in the unit
3. How the hell can I get out of this unit!
I like the army and planned to stay in but this guy has changed how I feel about alot of things!
I am a mid career soldier, a NCO with 6 years in the Army.
Since I have been in I have been to airborne school, air assault, expert infantry, advance airborne. I have competed in several soldier boards and have won on the company, battalion and even one brigade level competition. I have always worked very hard, followed orders and completed task to or above the standard. My PT scores are always above 290, I'm 10 minutes early to every formation and always in the right uniform. My ratings and monthly counseling in the past have always been excellent.
10 months ago when I was promoted I was sent to this new unit here on fort bragg and since then I have had nothing but problems with this 1SG.
He addresses me as m_th_r F_ck_r, or B_tch and I have noticed that he does it to many people in the unit. He has put me on Charge of quarters and other duty roster more than anyone else in the unit. I have started counting and in the past 10 months I have spent 19 weekends (either a saturday or sunday) on the CQ desk pulling 24 hour duty. When I asked him about it he lit me up, put me at parade rest, slammed his office door and chewed my ass for literally 45 minutes. He told me to never question him. Since then I have just driven on with the mission and sucked it up, but he keeps coming with it. I have been put on additional duties, he has assigned me additional duties as the training room NCO, the ammo NCO, weapons NCO, NBC NCO. special pops PT NCO.. all of this on top of running my own section.
The weird thing is whenever anyone (of his race) in the unit is given additional duties they are taken off of the Charge of Quarter roster. Of course I do not want to quesion him on this and when I have asked other senior NCO's in the unit about the situation their advice is to stay as far out of his path as possible because he will crush anyone who gets in his way. (most of the unit including the company commander is truly afraid of opposing the 1SG)
It is so completely obvious that there are racial as well as other issues with this 1SG, however nobody is willing to take the heat and say anything.
My last attempt at making sense of how he runs things ended with a painful ass chewing and threats.. (truly ungrounded) at taking my rank. In addition to the ass chewing I just ended up with more **** work and duties. Additionally, he will call me into his office have me stand at parade rest while he sits in his chair and asks me questions for 30 + minutes at a time. He'll ask me if I like the additional duties he has given me, he'll ask what I think of other soldiers in the unit, he'll ask me things like why are you such a dumb ass. This one is really amusing, seeing how I have busted my ass in night school and will finish my masters in education this year. He has a GED thats it.
Anyway, I can go on but my questions are:
1. Do I have to put up with being called B_tch and Mother F....
2. Who can I talk to without him retaliating on me or others in the unit
3. How the hell can I get out of this unit!
I like the army and planned to stay in but this guy has changed how I feel about alot of things!