Posted on 05/27/2017 3:41:38 AM PDT by Enterprise
Three married U.S. Marine officers have found themselves under investigation for a night in February that went off the rails in Bogotá, involving allegations they went drinking with some local women, were slipped illicit drugs, robbed of U.S. property and landed in a local hospital emergency room.
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Hay Street was a place I drove by once. I just never had a desire to go there. In summer 69 I was an O-3, and; the Maj. I worked for had been in Laos in 62-63, had been at C&C Det. FOB 2 in 66-7, plus he’d been a POW in Korea for 1,000 days. Myself and two other CPT’s in the company went to the Smoke Bomb Hill O’ club during the week after work with the Maj. We’d occasionally have a beer at the green beret sport parachute club on the weekend. That was no place to run one’s mouth as rank meant zip there.
Carrying an I-Pad and a laptop on liberty, in a foreign country?
“Send lawyers, guns and money...”
They were specifically ordered to not go in that area.
Zevon!!!
If only the media were this dogged in pursuit of low-crimes and misdemeanors committed by members of congress.
>Men who lack wisdom, morality, and self control are lousy soldiers.
Tell it to General Patton or Ike.
Since you served you probably know the term. "Different spanks for different ranks."
Depending on the severity of what was stolen the Colonel could possibly survive and retire, but probably with a demotion to the last highest rank he served with distinction. The Majors are on the edge of getting the boot or Levenworth, again, depending on what was stolen and how far they got with the prostitutes.
For àll the crazy, at least I came out with a good story - lol!
Lol...I dated a lovely Cubans in college. Her parents had escaped from Castro and had to completely rebuild their lives. Lovely people.
This would have been in the 1980s. Anything more might serve to identify me, if not you. So lets call it a better than even chance that I might have known you.
I could understand losing a phone under such circumstances but who in the he’ll takes a laptop or iPad with them on a night of debauchery ?.
A Punitive Separation for a US Military Officers is called: “Dismissal From Service.” For Enlisted Members, Punitive Separations are: 1. a Bad Conduct Discharge (result of a Special Court-martial), and 2. a Dishonorable Discharge (result of a General Court-martial).
I expect that the General will not call for resignations, that hurts the families of these idiots. He’ll want to get a pound of flesh from these guys and send a clear message, in my humble opinion. The Colonel will probably submit for retirement as soon as the legal matters are dealt with while the Majors will flounder at some desk job until they reach twenty years of service. I could be wrong.
Dumbbells!
When military personnel are in foreign nations for short periods of time, they might be housed in a hotel. It’s likely that the cell phones and iPad were kept in the hotel room. When the officers blacked out, the items were stolen from the room they were staying in.
Oh, I was a kid in High School and then to College in the 80s.
If only the media were this dogged in pursuit of low-crimes and misdemeanors committed by members of congress
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In this country an E1 is expected to act on a higher moral standard than that which pols act.
We ‘know’ this to be true as the Pols tend to write the laws pertaining to the REST of us...
Well honey, what really happened was that I had caught a cold and while I was visiting an orphanage I met a woman who said she was a trained nurse, and she gave me some pills. I had an allergic reaction and I woke up in the hospital. HONEST!
I wouldn’t either.
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