Yes. Of course.
You're absolutely right. It was a hard thing to hear and a weird thing to hear being assigned to someone who had said such problematic things—not just about me, but other stuff he had said.
For me, in some ways it set the tone of what to expect going forward in this organization. Here was a man in his forties, maybe, going after a 19-year-old girl who hadn't completed her basic training or anything like that, and making these incredibly inappropriate jokes about child pornography, etc.
For that to be written off by the people around me, saying, “Oh, you know, that corporal has a reputation”.... He was known for saying these really, they would say, “out-of-pocket things” or whatever, but they always just sent him back to his unit in Cape Breton and hid him away there until the next rotation or the next summer season came around.