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Brawls, disorder mar Georgia National Guard boot camp for teens at Fort Gordon
Atlanta-Journal Constitution ^ | 1/13/2023 | CHRIS JOYNER, JENNIFER PEEBLES AND STEPHANIE LAMM

Posted on 01/15/2023 4:05:21 PM PST by simpson96

(Tribune News Service) — A massive brawl broke out on a parade ground at Fort Gordon in Augusta one afternoon last fall, when about 70 teenage recruits of the Georgia National Guard’s Youth Challenge Academy slugged it out. Some used homemade weapons, including metal shanks, crudely sharpened toothbrushes and tube socks filled with metal padlocks.

Overwhelmed, the academy’s staff — most former military drill instructors — called for help, summoning the military police to break it up and ambulances to treat the injured. Two boys were taken to the hospital, one with a concussion, the other with bruised ribs. Others were treated on base after the Oct. 13 episode and sent back to barracks where cadets were placed on lockdown.

Within 24 hours of the brawl, a second melee involving more than two dozen teenagers broke out in one of the barracks and senior military leaders shut down the five-month boot camp in its first week, sending all 170 cadets home and barring them from Fort Gordon for a year. The violent week marked a debilitating breakdown of order for the state program that for three decades has helped at-risk youth complete high school education in an atmosphere of military discipline.

Since the shutdown, parents have been given little explanation from the National Guard about how the camp spiraled out of control so quickly. But an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation uncovered leadership failures and mismanagement by state officials who oversaw a program plagued by a history of violent episodes, of which the October melees were the largest.

Leaders rushing to meet a new enrollment quota last fall skipped their normal vetting process.

(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: brawl; georgia; nationalguard; searchandfind; youth

1 posted on 01/15/2023 4:05:21 PM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96

Hood rats doing hood rat stuff.


2 posted on 01/15/2023 4:06:40 PM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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To: simpson96

No need to look?


3 posted on 01/15/2023 4:07:17 PM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: simpson96

“Teens”.

Snort.

L


4 posted on 01/15/2023 4:09:50 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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5 posted on 01/15/2023 4:11:41 PM PST by Bobalu (Elon should buy the Washington Post—and turn it into a newspaper.)
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To: simpson96

Sounds like they recruited from the Bloods and the Crips at the same time.


6 posted on 01/15/2023 4:12:12 PM PST by The Duke (Never Retreat, Never Surrender!)
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To: simpson96

Should have let them kill each other.


7 posted on 01/15/2023 4:13:29 PM PST by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: simpson96
Leaders rushing to meet a new enrollment quota last fall skipped their normal vetting process.

"Vetting process" = ensuring that you don't have violent felons in the class.

8 posted on 01/15/2023 4:17:25 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: simpson96

blame leadership because R’da’le’ron aint never done muffin wrong


9 posted on 01/15/2023 4:17:37 PM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: Husker24

Seal them in and supply weapons and ammo then terminate any survivors.


10 posted on 01/15/2023 4:20:18 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: Lurker

‘Yutes’ turn the camp over to PMC Wagner


11 posted on 01/15/2023 4:20:34 PM PST by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: AbolishCSEU

“No need to look?”
Indeed. Captain Obvious is afraid his lifetime position is in jepordy
Sad that even when we are joking, we are not.


12 posted on 01/15/2023 4:21:34 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Sequoyah101

13 posted on 01/15/2023 4:24:35 PM PST by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: simpson96
Fighting over drug territory.?
14 posted on 01/15/2023 4:27:29 PM PST by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: simpson96

No surprise here. Just feral black kids being feral black kids.


15 posted on 01/15/2023 4:53:58 PM PST by Four of Six
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To: simpson96

Since the shutdown, parents have been given little explanation from the National Guard about how the camp spiraled out of control so quickly.


Because your little animals are feral and belong in prison.


16 posted on 01/15/2023 4:57:33 PM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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Sounds like they don’t need boot camp. They’re ready to be sent into combat now!


17 posted on 01/15/2023 5:37:10 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: simpson96

For anyone not familiar with the Youth Challenge Academy, it is pretty much exactly what its detractors claim it to be. “At risk” youths get a chance to go through a military-style tough love summer camp. These types of incidents (gang riots, mass fights) are always close to the surface and it depends upon the counselors and cadre to keep things under control.

For all you closet (or not so closeted) racists who like to giggle at the failure of teenagers who grew up without any sort of boundaries, support systems, or positive role models in their lives just because of the color of their skin... there’s a special place in hell for you. Unacceptable.


18 posted on 01/15/2023 7:25:10 PM PST by jz638
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In other words, Youth Challenge Academy consists of criminals and hoodlums.


19 posted on 01/15/2023 7:31:39 PM PST by sport
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the failure of teenagers who grew up without any sort of boundaries, support systems, or positive role models in their lives just because of the color of their skin...

Has nothing to do with color of the skin - it's all about the culture. I have neighbors from Africa, skin darker than most of their African American comrads. They work hard, their kids are well behaved, and they even fly MULTIPLE American flags.

20 posted on 01/15/2023 8:16:41 PM PST by 11th_VA (XX < > XY)
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