Hey Joe….did you see where a Maryland National Guard officer was forced to wear a chain as a punishment??His commanding officer, named in the complaint, was “Captain Jacob Day”. OUR own Jacob Day?
WASHINGTON – Sgt. Bruce Weaver recalls in an instant the heft of the chain that the all-white trainers at the Maryland National Guard forced him to wear during training at officer candidate school.
For three days, Weaver, a Black soldier in the Maryland National Guard, hauled the chain – running, falling behind under the burden, being hectored by instructors. They claimed it would remind him to follow the chain of command.
He was stunned. It felt as if he’d been subjected to the kind of punishment used by enslavers, Weaver told USA TODAY.
“At first, my inclination was to drag it,” Weaver recalled of the events five years ago. “They said, ‘No, no. You wear it. That will keep you down.’ That hit me. That hit me. I suppressed it and kept going. The next day, they said, ‘You’re still wearing this chain.’ I told them this is inappropriate punishment. It’s also messing with me psychologically. Chains mean something to Black people.”
A USA TODAY investigation brings Weaver’s previously unreported case to light as it nears resolution after years of delayed investigations and conflicting findings.
It is not Jake Day. He is in the US Army Reserves not the Maryland National Guard for your information.
That’s that Muppet Burt looking idiot.
Hopefully Day will not be allowed to resume his position in Wicomico County!
It’s not like this practice was invented for this slacker,
it’s been successfully used as a remedial aid
by army officer corps trainers for about 200
years, about 150 years before any black man could even
be an officer in any service.
Don’t be a race-baiting, PC snowflake, soldier!
Maryland National Guard got some explaining to do Lucy!