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You took the easy way out in your response.

Actually, the "easy way out" would have been a hit-and-run post. Not my style at all.

Reading the other posts, it seems a lot of other posters agree that what the soldiers did was wrong.

The fact that this thread is going to go over 400 posts indicates that while "a lot of other posters agree that what the soldiers did was wrong", there is significant disagreement to that opinion. From what I've seen, most of the dissent appears to be coming from active military, former military, or spouses of active or former military.

I, too, respect other people's opinions. However, you called for the dishonorable discharge of soldiers coming out of a war zone for having some harmless fun. A lot of posts like yours do not seem to be about the soldiers at all, but about how it makes US look, or how it makes YOU look. In other words, people are getting indignent because they are embarrassed.

The bottom line is, those folks have been over there fighting for us, and this "party" doesn't embarrass me in the least. Those pictures, and the descriptions, are so totally tame it is asinine.

Perhaps you haven't seen some of the other pics posted. I wonder if any involved are married? I wonder how their spouses feel? Sometimes other people need to be considered also. And, like I said, since one of the women involved is from my community, I feel she embarrassed our community also.

Wyatt...I've active military, combat vet, and I believe that these knukleheads were wrong. Not nightly news wrong or Courtsmartial wrong, but still wrong. The senior NCO's should have broken the party up before it got out of hand. SP/MP's frequently bust up rowdy parties at the local fleshpots when they get out of hand and this one was on base!

P.S. What was your service may I ask?