ROK Army Staff Sergeant Broke Regulations By Visiting Itaewon Club
Life for this ROK Army Staff Sergeant must really suck, not only is he infected with COVID-19, but he has been outed as being gay, subject of derision across Korea for creating this cluster infection, and will likely get smash by ROK military justice for breaking an order:
South Korea’s military on Wednesday reported three more COVID-19 infections linked to a cluster that emerged in Seoul’s Itaewon district recently, bringing the tally to 11. The three soldiers apparently contracted the coronavirus from a staff sergeant at the Cyber Command in central Seoul.
Of all the cases uncovered so far, four soldiers and five officers worked at the Cyber Command, and the other two officers were stationed at an Army base in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province.
The staff sergeant at the Cyber Command initially tested positive Friday after having visited a club in Itaewon on May 2 in violation of rules the military had imposed to cut risks.
The sergeant is believed to be responsible for all the infections linked to Itaewon at the Cyber Command.
Korea Herald
You can read more at the link, but let this be a warning to everyone in USFK thinking about going out to any bars or clubs. Could you imagine the negative media if a U.S. soldier caused a massive cluster infection like this?
People like the ROK NCO don’t give a damn about good order and discipline. It’s pretty obvious this bozo cannot ever give an order and expect it to be obeyed, so he needs to shed those extra stripes.
They don’t give a damn about the people they work with. He went into places where “social distancing” isn’t practiced. And he went in knowing the risks of sharing the virus.
And this particular Cybersecurity person thinks maybe the gay staff sergeant was involved in sharing office secrets with people he met on the hill–in the clubs or elsewhere. He should be very closely cross-examined about every bit of classified or even sensitive information to which he had access. His bank accounts and those of his family need to be audited thoroughly back to the time he got the job in that command.
Alternatively, he might just be a malingering malcontent pursuing a medical exuse for a vacation. But it should be investigated as if he was purposely attempting to lower readiness.
When we work for a civilian firm with no access to classified materials or impact on national security, this is not a big deal. When we work for the military, especially in sensitive roles like his, we must be held to a higher standard and treated accordingly.
And his chain of command need to be given the third degree to verify this is not common in that organization.
“Pour encourager les autres.”