Posted on 04/30/2015 10:53:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Marine temporarily assigned to Camp Pendleton was found dead in the barracks, military officials confirmed Thursday. The man, who is stationed at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, came to San Diego for an advanced career course this week. First Lt. Luke Kuper says the Marine checked into Staff Noncommissioned Officer Academy on Monday.
He was found unresponsive in his room at about 8 a.m. Wednesday.
Medical responders pronounced him dead a short time later. Officials have not released any details about what caused his death, saying it is under investigation.
The man's name is being withheld until his family can be notified.
"Marine Corps Base Hawaii is saddened by the loss of one of its Marines, and condolences go out to family and loved ones," said Kuper in a release.
As a rule, staff NCOs don’t OD. Right now, since the there is no other explanation, I’m going to assume an aneurysm, one of those little pranks Nature likes to play.
RIP
Yup, people die from just being born. Just hope he was an honorable Marine. That would mean he served his Nation well in his short time on Earth and has a legacy his family can be proud of.
Amen.
Perhaps, worst, are deployments, when staff NCO wives always wonder if a staff car is going to pull up in front of a shabby cinderblock duplex, with an officer and a chaplain.
I don't know about today, but back when, I knew E-7s and E-8s who had to work extra part time, smoked hand rolled to save money, and you literally lived at the whim of some idiot like Obama.
Prayers up
I saw a long interview with Harold(?) Moore - General in Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam about the “We were soldiers” movie. He and his wife pleaded with the director to redo the taxi cab scenes (bringing the telegraphs to the homes). In the movie the taxi, and then later the wives, go to the wives’ nice homes on base.
Moore said that as soon as the men were deployed, the wives had to find their own housing off base. Usually some run-down rental home, dark apartment, etc. And he wanted that to be shown - that was how these hero's families were actually living.
Marine Force Recon (MARSOC) are stationed and train in Hawaii. More likely this Marine died from the stresses of specialized training and some sort of hidden physical defect than a drug overdose of any kind.
(The cloudy description of this man’s MOS and reason for his presence on Camp Pendleton leads me to believe he is a Force Recon Marine. The Marines tend not to acknowledge the existence of Spec Ops troops believing that such a descriptor detracts from their image as the world’s largest elite military force.)
What was interesting, later, was after we were out in the civilian world. I was contract engineering for DoD, and the wife and I would be driving past on-base housing, say at Tinker AFB, or Hill AFB, or Charleston AFB, and you could only tell the housing was military because of the chain link fence. Actual houses, with car ports, green grass, swing sets...
The wife was just short of screaming fury. I never knew if she was angrier at me , for being a Marine, or the Corps for their attitudes about families.
This story was posted at NBC yesterday evening, and it says he was discovered Wednesday.
More than 24 hours later is a LONG delay for the family to be notified. There is a time limit for notifying the family, I think it is within 4 hours of the death being discovered. (I'm a bit rusty on the rules, since I have not had a notification training refresher course for a while.)
I certainly hope they've managed to locate the family to do the notification. If there is no current address for any family on record, that, too, is a terribly sad story.
Prayers up for this man and his family.
Well said. Thank you for your service.
What was not put in the movie is that mostly BRASS had the base housing back then, not much different today.
We just watched the 40th Anv. Documentary on the fall of Saigon, it was all focused on the inept Amb, and some flights of the friendly’s out. Not a lot was shown of the support from ships like the USS Midway. Frequent Wind was not even mentioned. Hubby was on the USS Midway when they were pulling the Amb out and they shoved Jolly Greens over the side to make room for a small plane to land with a friendly high ranker family aboard. Hubby is now a Ret. SCPO with 20 yrs, and another 20 yrs teaching Jr. College.
RIP.
Could be gay interaction. Super violent mental illness.
Doubt the gay idea. Not because of Pride in the Corps, but simply that Staff NCO's, as a rule, have been in long enough, in excess of 5 years, and at least one re-enlistment, that the pole smokers have been largely weeded out by the greedy personality flaws that accompany gayness.
It's something that doesn't get a lot of press, to list the secondary sociopathic greed prompted behaviors that seem to couple with homosex. Thing like searching for the Ultimate Forever Orgasm, (BDSM, drug abuse, cross dressing.), profoundly selfish attitudes, ("I can do anything I want!"), the "You can't possibly understand me!" meme, contempt for 'breeders', which have always been there, if unstated. These do not react well with the Corps' code.
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