If someone spoke to me the way as it was being described in the OP, it's banter that would be over very quickly. These comments are embarrassing enough having read it here and I can only imagine how dumb it sounded in person. Should they have said this with any amount of seriousness to the wrong party, even as a joke, they would've received nothing but the most humiliating blowback. The fact she didn't try to lynch them herself is the biggest shock to me.

She was stationed at a training centre, probably the worst place to have bullies of any description. I would wondered why this particular female was singled out for abuse in this particular place. She can't have been the only black soldier to have been stationed or trained there. There's a hierarchy in The army, did she approach her CO? What did her CO do, if anything? The abuse sounds horrific but strange she was the only one to come forward. I was in no way diminishing her experience, so why you're here to state the obvious is quite beyond me.