Air Force officer under fire for Facebook comment on missing Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen.
A former Wisconsin Air National Guard officer, Betsy Schoeller, wrote comments about Guillen’s death, saying “Sexual harassment is the price of admission for women into the good ole boy club.”An Air Force officer is under fire for a Facebook comment regarding missing Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen.
Army Pfc. Vanessa Guillen, 20, has been missing from her unit since April 22, 2020, according to the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command.In a group called Veteran Humor, Betsy Schoeller, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee lecturer, responded to a post questioning how Guillen was allegedly killed on the base without anyone noticing. Schoeller wrote in a since-deleted comment,"You guys are kidding, right? Sexual harassment is the price of admission for women into the good ole boy club.
The school noted that for legal reasons, it cannot fire Schoeller for her posting, which is protected by the First Amendment."UWM cannot regulate the private speech of its employees," it said in its statement.Saturday that Schoeller's comment is"inconsistent with our values" and"we do not condone them in any way." The statement noted that Schoeller retired from the Wisconsin National Guard in 2017.
Schoeller said she was not implying how she felt, but was"giving voice to the messaging that women hear in the culture of sexual harassment: The message we receive from the culture is not only will you suffer from sexual harassment, if you squawk about it, you will suffer even more." Guillen, 20, was last seen at Fort Hood, an Army base outside of Killeen, on April 22, according to court documents. Human remains were discovered near the base on June 30, authorities said, and an investigation is underway into whether they belong to Guillen.
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