Much is still being made of the trainee who died in Paris Island. They keep showing a film of the trainee's CO shoving "Hitting" him. All I saw was the CO placing his hand on the trainees chest and giving a light shove. I have several personal thoughts:
When recruits report for training, the doors should be closed behind them and nothing heard or seen from them until they complete training. Many of us have experienced what we thought were abuses at the time, only to laugh at or even appreciate the effectiveness later.
We used to joke about the marines having a 14 man squad since they had two PIO individuals with them. Based upon recent damaging photos and film when are they, and the rest of the military going to learn.
Believe me, the Marines or any other service are perfectly capable of handling their own investigatuins without the media's and the likes of KKKKATIE Curick helping.
Take off the kid's gloves. I made the transition from the old to the new army. For every soldier you can point out that straightened up and flew right because of non-judicial punishment, I'll show you ten who did so because of a few good ass whippings. There was a day when the PSG was the biggest and baddest dude in the platoon. And if he couldn't handle a particular individuall he and the other three PSGs could.
Let our soldiers be soldiers for crissake. Soldiers kill the enemy not ask permission to search their person.
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