Chelsea Manning Was NOT ‘Harassed,’ Says Former Squad Mate. He Was Not A Team Player

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By Saagar Enjeti

In a recent blog post that has since gone viral, one former soldier sheds light on Chelsea Manning’s character in the lead-up to his unprecedented leak of vital national security information.

The soldier’s account differs strongly from Manning’s insinuations about her time in the U.S. Army. A 2013 Rolling Stone profile says of her experience:

Boot camp had been a misery. Bullied relentlessly, he suffered anxiety attacks, got into fights, even peed on himself (more than once).

The soldier posted his account on his personal blog in which he heavily disputed this idea saying instead:

Manning called out the uniform of the day, waited until her squad was dressed and had moved out to the morning formation, when she then put on the real, correct uniform of the day and ran to catch up. The commotion at the formation was her saying that she heard at the last minute what the real uniform was and it wasn’t her fault they were wrong; the rest of the team apparently was having none of it. In the Army, if everyone is wrong together, then they’re still right; uniformity is one of the highest virtues in our military. If one person is technically “right” but the rest of the team is uniformly wrong, then the technically “right” person is still wrong; everyone is still punished equally. By week two everybody knew that, lived it and lived with it. Everyone, except Manning.

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