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title: "UK’s Top Sgt Major Rips Racist Soldiers A New One In Twitter Video"
date: "2018-04-13"
modified: "2018-04-13"
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# UK’s Top Sgt Major Rips Racist Soldiers A New One In Twitter Video

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/02/18987844-1.png>)

Uniformed white supremacists, take note: Sergeant major's gonna get you.

As race hate gains steam globally, Great Britain has been roiled by a few white-riot knuckleheads in its Army: Three of five men arrested last fall for membership in a neo-Nazi front were serving soldiers. Two of those service members [were acquitted yesterday on terrorism charges](<https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/12/nazi-salute-british-soldier-cleared-of-terrorism-offence>), but one — Cpl. Mikko Vehvilainen — pled guilty to illegal possession of CS tear gas, which he'd held along with a shotgun, a crossbow with homemade projectiles, electrical wiring, custom body armor painted black, "a Hitler Youth knife and an SS ceremonial dagger," a manifesto by the worst mass-shooter in history, and reams of violent anti-gay, anti-minority writings.

And Sgt. Maj. Glenn Haughton isn't fucking having it.

Haughton, the British Army's senior enlisted advisor — who [actually was a warrant officer](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Haughton>), but *went back* to the enlisted ranks specifically to take this job — cut a video message for the troops Friday morning, and it's fucking lit. The slightly street-accented, heavily tatted, perfectly bloused piledriver of an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran told his charges: If you're a dirty Nazi, get out fast. And if you *know* a dirty Nazi, you can help me nail him:

https://twitter.com/armysgtmajor/status/984480200464519168

Here's the text of his message (emphasis added):

*Alright, lots of you have been following the media coverage about a case in Birmingham Crown Court involving allegations of extreme racism against two British soldiers.*

*It’s good that they’ve been dealt with like this, in a civilian court, with a civilian jury. **We might be soldiers, but we’re also citizens, and we’re bound by the law of the land.** And I for one wouldn’t have it any other way.*

*The bottom line is this: There is no place in the British army whatsoever for any form of racism. **That’s why one of our core values is respect for others. What’s difficult to understand about that?***

***If you’re a serving soldier or a would-be soldier, and you hold these intolerant and extremist views, as far as I’m concerned, there is no place for you in the British army. SO GET OUT.***

***I do not believe that right-wing extremism is an endemic problem in the British Army. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Like any large organization, it might be there.** It is the duty of every soldier if they see this behavior to have the moral courage to do something about it and report it up the chain of command.*

*Each of us has a responsibility to make sure that our great institution, the British Army, is a place where everybody can thrive, and an institution that our nation is proud of.*

Bravo zulu to Haughton and the British Army. If this clip doesn't make you want to smash fascists, work on your sleeve rolls, and bang out more preacher curls, I can't help you.