"How is the Marine Corps supposed to change their societal culture of toxicity against women if staff NCOs are being implicitly taught to harbor resentment against them for consensual relationships, not being chatty enough, or earning awards?" Jones said. And her behavior and award appeared to influence the sergeants' bad behavior. The scenario described her as squared away and performing her job well, but added that she didn't socialize with other noncommissioned officers. She also took issue with the way the female corporal was depicted. "Accountability is preached day in and day out in the military, yet none was held for this situation until now." "Everyone along the line is responsible, including everyone who saw this training slide and silently questioned it instead of bringing attention to it," she said. Jones said she's thankful the Marine Corps is making the revision, but said the question never should've been included in a professional military education course at all. Without an instructor present to facilitate discussion to ensure that the correct lessons are learned, Marines are left to draw their own - and possibly incorrect - conclusions." "There are several issues included within the scenario that could foster further discussion. That was never the intent," Stephenson said. "One: It can imply that the Marines were drinking because of apparent favoritism or worse that the apparent favoritism might excuse their actions. The point Marines were meant to take away is that even apparent preferential treatment resulting from a relationship between Marines of different paygrades can negatively affect good order and discipline, Stephenson added.īut the scenario needs to be revised for several reasons, he said. Related: The Marine Corps Is Changing How It Promotes Sergeants and Staff Sergeants. "This scenario will be removed from the content by the end of November 2019 and all scenarios and content will be reviewed and updated in early 2020." "This course will be reviewed as a result of this deficiency being brought to our attention," 1st Lt. Now officials at Training and Education Command are changing the course. One person described the scenario as "galaxy brain nonsense." Another said they read it three times and still didn't understand the point. The irrelevancy of the first sentence, the mental gymnastics throughout the rest of the paragraph, and the answer being a picture of a NAM was illogical." "It was poorly constructed and littered with nonsensical points. "If I was taking the test, I would have no idea how to even answer the question because I don't know what it was actually asking," Jones said.
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