Army Officer Relieved of Command, Facing Discharge over Racist Social Media Posts

[rangerrebew]

 
 
7 Jan 2022
Military.com | By Steve Beynon and Konstantin Toropin

A lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve was relieved of command in 2020 and is now facing removal from the force after he peddled racist opinions to his troops and peppered his social media accounts with a consistent flow of outlandish posts attacking public officials that his own lawyer described as racist, inflammatory and in poor taste.

Lt. Col. Michael Spillane, a medical officer with the 7207th Medical Support Group based out of Webster, New York, wrote a memo to soldiers under his command in June 2020, warning them of the "medical crisis created by China" and that "peaceful assemblies have turned into riots, looting, and shooting."

It was a memo full of typos and half truths laced with partisan wink and nod warnings about Democrats and minority-led protests amid a reckoning of racial justice, a highly atypical memo from an Army officer to his troops. Spillane's commander, Col. Jeffery Wood, later described the memo as offensive and inflammatory, in documents reviewed by Military.com.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/01/07/army-officer-relieved-of-command-facing-discharge-over-racist-social-media-posts.html

[rangerrebew]

Why do I feel this had as much to do with the military purge as it did the racist posts?

[GtHawk]

From what I read of his 'generalizations' I didn't see anything overtly sexist or racist. The problem I saw was that he didn't kowtow to the socialist bullshit and expressed freedom loving patriotic views in what they admit was posted in his private capacity in a personal facebook account.

[Smokin Joe]

So, no extremism allowed....

How does that work dealing with our enemies?

At some point labelled as "hajis, sand "n-----", ragheads, skinnies, gooks, dinks, nips, Japs, krauts, Boche, Huns, rebels, bluebellies, redcoats, savages" and a host of other names considered demeaning, and intentionally so, for those people shooting at us were 'the enemy', not people.

The military isn't there for some sociology project. It is there to break things and kill people when just staring them down isn't enough: to project power against those who have decided they are the enemies of this Republic and convince them of the error of their ways.

I seriously doubt any other military is caught up in this nonsense. If you are serving you are a member of that branch, Look at your sleeve for your color, not at the arm coming out of it.

[rangerrebew]

The military isn't there for some sociology project. 

That's the way it used to be BM  (Before Milley).

[mountaineer]

"medical crisis created by China"

Not racist. Even if he had said, "created by the Chinese," it still wouldn't be racist.
Chinese is not a race.

[rangerrebew]

Chinese is not a race.

As I said, that was BM.

[Smokin Joe]

As I said, that was BM.

Ya mean the Milley who is more loyal to the Chinese than his CinC?