What do you want to bet that as this story evolves the word ‘gay’ is inserted somewhere...
Maybe Lew’s death was made to look like suicide.
The sergeant is in charge of training his troops/ Marines.
What about the platoon commander and company commander? Where were they?
Maybe Lew’s death was made to look like suicide.
I think this child would have done the same in or out of the Corp.
Certainly not the Marines fault.
Cyclic rate on a SAW is 650 to 800 rounds per minute. No doubt that squeezing the trigger would fire more than one round...even in a suicide.
Shades of “Full Metal Jacket.”
“And the next sum’bitch I catch coppin Z’s in the bush, I’m personally gonna take an interest in seein’ him suffer. I —— you not.”
Just profound sadness here from the father of a Marine LC - soon getting promoted.
Hasn’t “Sleeping on Guard Duty” historically been a Capital offense?
I am sorry if my comments sound brutal, but falling asleep on guard duty in a combat zone is unforgivable. Others lives depend on your watchfulness. Falling asleep on guard duty is breaking faith with your fellow marines/soldiers/sailors/airmen. He deserved some very severe punishment. It didn't, however, have to be physical. Nevertheless, I understand his follow marines' rage.
It happened four freaking times??!! Why wasn't he removed and given judicial punishment and sent to work as a cook after the second offense? If he had a sleep disorder, why was he given combat duty at all? How do even get through basic training without learning how to stay awake? He really was endangering his fellow marines. Sorry if that sounds brutal, but the marines are in life and death situations over there every day and night, and you HAVE GOT to pull your weight.
I'm surprised Lew wasn't brought up for sleeping on guard duty.
I’ve fallen asleep a number of times while on duty at the office!
“Hazing” hell !! Sleeping on guard duty is a case of “deriliction of duty” and subject to a general court or “such less punnishment as his commander may reccommend.
From the way the story reads it appears his fellow squaddies tried to deal with a serious infraction without resorting to steps that would/could have resulted in a “DD”.
But the sniveling twerp showed them !! >PS
BTW, if they had proof he was sleeping on guard why didn't his superiors court martial him and have him shipped out?
I see no problem with the other NCO’s giving this guy some on the job training. You fall asleep on guard duty and you are letting down everyone in the unit and putting their lives at risk. Unacceptable behavior.
Cases like this one only provoke sharp and angry “discussions” on the Internet, Capt Obvious wannabes who’ll inform us with all the sincerity they can muster that the boy could have been responsible for deaths of 100s of his fellow Marines (so how come falling asleep at least 4 times, and probably more, he didn’t?!), and a lot of stupidity.
No question among those who’ve experienced a little of life, and not a lot of military discipline and the necessary thoughtlessness of military life, that a 21 year old consistently falling asleep on duty must be suffering from a sleeping disorder, depression, or some other “shameful” malady, and finds himself in a war, where different rules apply, cannot admit to it, self-diagnose, or complain (”A marine doesn’t complain!”), or else he’s been kept awake 20 hours a day, because it’s war, because, because...
Shiite happens and people fall asleept. It’s a physiological function, for those of you in Camp Rio Vista. D’uh!
Sad. RIP.