Who is Sergeant Jonathan Pentland?
Updated: Apr 15 2021, 4:50 ET
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SERGEANT Jonathan Pentland has hit headlines across the US after appearing in a video that took the internet by storm and went viral.
The Fort Jackson drill instructor has found himself in hot water with authorities - but who is he, and what is he accused of?
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Who is Sergeant Jonathan Pentland?
Jonathan Pentland is a US army first class based at Fort Jackson in Columbia.
According to social media accounts connected to Pentland, he has been stationed at Fort Jackson since at least 2019 and has worked as a drill sergeant at the garrison, a 53,000-acre complex that trains 50 per cent of all soldiers and 60 per cent of women who enter the Army each year.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 09, 2021 at 9:53 AM
A Michigan National Guard soldier patrols in Afghanistan alongside an Afghan soldier and a Latvian ally. Now the Army is struggling to refocus on defending allies like Latvia against great-power threats such as Russia.
WASHINGTON: The Army is still struggling to reorient itself on great power threats, said the commander of the infantry and armor training center at Fort Benning.
Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe
After two decades of counterinsurgency in Afghanistan and Iraq, “we’ve got to get east of the Vistula and north of the Han,” said Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe, referring to rivers in eastern Poland and central Korea respectively. “We have to get onto the map sheets where our near-peer competitors may operate against us – and, therefore, we’ve got to take our own trainers out of what they’re comfortable with, [i.e.] the Middle East map sheet of your choice.