Marines find culture of hazing, abuse at boot camp after recruit's death at Parris Island

[rangerrebew]

Marines find culture of hazing, abuse at boot camp after recruit's death at Parris Island

By: Jeff Schogol and Gina Harkins, September 8, 2016 (Photo Credit: Sgt. Jennifer Schubert/Marine Corps)

Multiple investigations into the death of a Muslim military recruit at the Marine Corps’ fabled Parris Island training center have uncovered a troubling pattern of mistreatment, and officials are responding with a series of policy changes designed to improve accountability and prevent future missteps.

Twenty Marines are facing administrative punishment or potentially more consequential legal proceedings, a military official told Marine Corps Times. The three investigations were launched in March after Raheel Siddiqui, 20, fell nearly 40 feet to his death from a barracks stairwell just days after arriving at Parris Island, which is located along the South Carolina coast.

The incident has prompted questions about the way recruits are treated and disciplined as they train to become Marines – especially minority recruits. One congresswoman has spent months pressing top Marine leaders to prove that Siddiqui’s Muslim faith did not lead to any mistreatment during his time at Parris Island. It followed years of immense pressure from members of Congress about how military leaders are tackling the issue of  hazing in the ranks.

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/articles/marines-find-culture-of-hazing-abuse-at-boot-camp-after-recruits-death-at-parris-island

[rangerrebew]

Instead of turning people into warriors, I think the Marines should focus on manners at the table, knitting, home keeping.

[Free Vulcan]

You can't handle the truth!

[TomSea]

This is actually a pretty hot story, it may depend on whose news you read. 

20 Marines face discipline after death of Muslim recruit from Taylor

Twenty Marine Corps personnel face possible discipline or criminal charges after investigations into the death of a 20-year-old Muslim recruit from Taylor found multiple violations of policies and procedures at a key recruiting outpost, including indications that Raheel Siddiqui was physically abused and called a “terrorist” by his drill sergeant.

Marine officials told the Free Press on Thursday that while Siddiqui’s death was a suicide as initially reported  by the Corps, an alleged assault by his drill sergeant, who forced Siddiqui to repeatedly run the length of a squad bay and slapped him, was the likely impetus for his jumping over a wall and falling three floors to his death in a stairwell on March 18.

More: http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2016/09/08/marines-discipline-raheel-siddiqui/90066786/

[geronl]

Instead of turning people into warriors, I think the Marines should focus on manners at the table, knitting, home keeping.

real men and warriors allow themselves to be abused and raped too. The new normal.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

This is actually a pretty hot story, it may depend on whose news you read.

Other than slapping the recruit, which he should not have done, the DI did nothing wrong.  Can't predict a kid will snap like that and leap down a stairwell just because he's getting yelled at/made to run.

This kind of stuff does happen periodically, with instructors having to occasionally be reigned in -- really started with that platoon that was marched into a swamp decades ago, killing a bunch of the recruits.  Hopefully, they won't go too overboard with this.

Perhaps should make it easier for recruits to claim psych and drop out.

[TomSea]

Other than slapping the recruit, which he should not have done, the DI did nothing wrong.  Can't predict a kid will snap like that and leap down a stairwell just because he's getting yelled at/made to run.

This kind of stuff does happen periodically, with instructors having to occasionally be reigned in -- really started with that platoon that was marched into a swamp decades ago, killing a bunch of the recruits.  Hopefully, they won't go too overboard with this.

Perhaps should make it easier for recruits to claim psych and drop out.

This may be all so but what I was referring to are the reports in the mainstream media who like to dwell on and try to make this into a story about a Muslim recruit being tormented. That's all I was saying, right or wrong.

At least one other recruit overheard the drill instructor say: “Why are you even here? You’re gonna kill us the first chance you get, aren’t you, you terrorist? What are your plans, are you a terrorist?”

http://patch.com/michigan/dearborn/20-marines-may-be-charged-death-muslim-marine-michigan

The Wall Street Journal had an article on this as well.