The Denham family who lived up the block, lost their eldest son to the same fate - "accidental drowning" at Parris Island.
In his case, the DI was found guilty, but it never brings the deceased one back. There were promises of improved training techniques, and to ease up when fatigue becomes obvious.
Given the rigors of basic at Parris Island, it sounds as thought they've returned to overworking the recruits.
I can only hope that this incident forces them to reevaluate their procedures and methods, once again.
I know - the Marines are tough, but do they have to keep killing them before they can finish training?
In the 50s they used to tell the new recruits in a company of 100 to look around as 4 of them would be going home in a box before graduation because they didn't listen. Don't know if that became fact but that was what they told them; so I'm told.
If that were the case then more than one in 20,000 recruits would be dying, they aren't.
but do they have to keep killing them before they can finish training?
What an asinine statement. I doubt you know much about recruit training or what kind of recruit Tharp was.