SEE GI JANE TAPED TO A POLE; TROOP VIDEO RAISES EYEBROWS

Drudgereport.com ^ | November 12,2006 | Drudgereport

[Halls]

A provocative video hits the internet this week showing male soldiers in Iraq aggressively duct-taping a female soldier to a pole!

Titled, "When your the only girl in the maintenance section," the 4 minute long video shows a laughing female getting wrapped up with heavy tape.

[jellybean]

Just for you...

The Moods of a Woman

An angel of truth and a dream of fiction,
A woman is a bundle of contradiction,
She's afraid of a wasp, will scream at a mouse,
But will tackle a stranger alone in the house.
Sour as vinegar, sweet as a rose,
She'll kiss you one minute, then turn up her nose,
She'll win you in rage, enchant you in silk,
She'll be stronger than brandy, milder than milk,
At times she'll be vengeful, merry and sad,
She'll hate you like poison, and love you like mad.

[paulat]

That's a really repulsive version of womanhood.

[jellybean]

Sorry, I'm not a feminist so I recognize and appreciate the different facets of women. Apparently you don't.

[6SJ7]

We duct taped a FNG to the toilet in Flight Ops and took his flight suit and laid it on the ramp with a "remove before flight" streamer on it.

The 'remove before flight' streamer was a nice touch!
I've heard it is routine to do a little 'repainting' when an aircraft from another carrier makes an unscheduled visit.

[tarheelswamprat]

I would much prefer they'd made a video of themselves taping their embed reporter to a pole. Then leaving them there.

It would be an instant hit, all around the world...

[paulat]

Sorry, I'm not a feminist so I recognize and appreciate the different facets of women. Apparently you don't.

I don't like "chick-lit" Oprah poems. Apparenlty, you do.

[RadioAstronomer]

I have completely lost faith in FReeper men tonight. Would they want to see their patriotic daughters treated this way???

See my post #158 on this thread. We did this as a squadron initiation. And yes even the Colonel participated. (and was taped himself)

[paulat]

LOL!!! Apparenlty = Apparently

Also...just LOVE your "What kind of Goddess are you" quizzes on your page. Just the right kind of woman to lead a battalion!

[jellybean]

Actually I'm not much for poetry at all. I just like the sentiments expressed. If you don't that's fine with me. Won't keep me awake tonight.

[paulat]

Okey-doke!!! I can't take anyone who wants to call themselves "jellybean" seriously, anyway!!

G'nite!!!

[zeugma]

this is just harmless fun. if she were my daughter, I would be laughing along with her. what's the problem?

Exactly. She's laughing her head off the whole time.

Anyone who wants to make this into something sinister just wants to find something to yell at GIs about.

[jellybean]

I take very little seriously, so I'n not offended.

G'nite

[spunkets]

"We didnt study so we are stuck in Iraq"

LOL!

[zbigreddogz]

If she consented to it? Why?

If they were forcing her, fine, but if they are just having harmless fun, why should anybody be punished?

[RadioAstronomer]

See my posts on this thread. I guess we should have been repremanded and demoted as well. /sarc

[Abathar]

What no one seems to realize is that the same people who were duct taping her to the pole would probably crawl across broken glass and take a bullet to see that she was kept safe. I never saw anyone that was harassed like that unless the people doing it either did it out of hatred or out of fun and respect, and you don't tickle someone you hate. If that was my daughter they were doing it to I would be laughing my butt off and helping to hold her down.

[Just another Joe]

Try crossing the equator on a Navy ship to earn your shellback card!

Been there, done that, and you are entirely correct.
If some of the things that were done to me during that initiation ever hit the airwaves, the Dems would have a field day.

[Long Island Pete]

It's not like they put underwear on her head. Lighten up, they were horsing around.

[ArrogantBustard]

Dang! I'm impressed. Seems like most of these, they pick the smallest person in the group to tape to the wall.