Army suspends recruiter for anti-gay e-mail rants

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Source: Chicago Tribune

The fraught e-mail exchange between the Army recruiter who went headhunting for soldiers on the Internet and a freelance copywriter searching for steady work started innocuously.

The recruiter, sitting at her desk in Brooklyn, N.Y., fired off a message to the Jersey City job seeker who had posted his resume on CareerBuilder.com and invited him to apply to join the service. She noted that the Army had plenty of openings in military intelligence, aviation, translation and other fields.

In an admittedly sarcastic tone, the job seeker wrote back that he was openly gay and asked whether that would disqualify him -- though he knew the answer quite well, as he acknowledged later -- and said he had no interest in being in the military.

The exchange escalated into a series of insults and counterinsults, culminating in anti-gay, racist and typo-filled rants by the recruiter, who has been reassigned and is under investigation by the military. The text of the e-mails was provided by the job seeker but has not been disputed by the Army.


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[tblue]

1. Your tax dollars at work

[maddezmom]

2. reasssigned? she should have her butt fired

:mad:

[jobycom]

3. So, she's anti-gay, racist, and semi-illiterate. There's still time. The Republicans haven't chosen

a candidate for 08 yet.

[cboy4]

4. Well, when you have a bigot as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,

who went on record saying that homosexuality is immoral, it's not surprising others in the military feel it's alright to openly display their bigotry.

[saigon68]

6. Peter Pace is an extraordinarily evil simpleton

[cboy4]

7. Simpleton LOL!! That's a great insult. I'll have to remember that!

But yes, you are so correct!! :)

[saigon68]

10. In fairness to him, he's much smarter than

His boss, the muddling, lobotomized chimpanzee

[xchrom]

5. why? peter pace got to keep his job for the same thing.

[Ian David]

9. Peter Pace just bashed gays, not other minorities. See, you don't need to wear a hood to bash gays.

[xchrom]

13. lol -- you're right, dumb of me to forget that.

[Ian David]

15. Silly you... thinking that all men are created equal or something like that.

Librals...

(sigh)


:sarcasm:

[xchrom]

17. yeah that happens to me every year -- somewhere around april 15.

i don't know why?

[Ian David]

8. I think her skills could be more useful on the front lines clearing IEDs from the road. n/t

[LiberalFighter]

23. Are there any mean conniving lesbians that would enjoy her company

and make her life miserable over in Iraq?

[gratuitous]

11. "The text . . . has not been disputed by the Army"

But apparently this is no big thing in the Army, as the recruiter has merely been "reassigned." And if the recent history of military "investigations" is any indicator, don't look for the military to police itself. But all that "honor, duty and integrity" stuff is just for the teen-age suckers watching the slick commercials anyway.

[saigon68]

12. I wonder WHAT she wrote

And you are right. The upper career military is made up of a bunch of cowardly ass covering misfits who protect their own butts

[karlrschneider]

14. Some of it's in the OP's link

...

[saigon68]

18. Ya its FRESH alright

But in this case, Ramode appeared to show little restraint in expressing her views to Powell, who is African-American.

"You go back to Africa and do your gay voodoo limbo tango and wango dance and jump around and prance and run all over the place half naked there and practice your gay morals over there that's where you belong," she told Powell.

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[leQ]

25. excuse me for my ignorance, but what is "the OP's link"? (eom)

[Ian David]

16. Truth in Advertising: "An Army of One"

"An Army Of One: You're on your fucking own, dude."

[Kurovski]

20. The Army is desperate for personnel.

Still, it's lousy that the screwball is still collecting a paycheck from the taxpayer.

[Kurovski]

19. I'm glad to hear it.

She was WAYYYYYYYY out there.

[susanna]

21. As Charlie Brown might say, "Good grief."

Didn't this Army recruiter have a sliver of common sense? Wow.

[BigDDem]

22. ......"the Army had plenty of openings "

Here's your chance young republicans, go for it!

[ohio2007]

24. The Brits are looking for a few good men