What is your malfunction you maggot Elliot Spagat!
Posted on 08/24/2007 9:17:27 AM PDT by kellynla
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A Marine drill instructor has been charged with 225 criminal counts connected to abusing recruits, a Marines spokesman said Thursday.
In one incident, Sgt. Jerrod M. Glass allegedly ordered a recruit to jump head-first into a trash can and then pushed him further into the container, according to court documents cited in The San Diego Union-Tribune. He is also accused of striking recruits with a tent pole and a heavy flashlight.
Two other drill instructors, Sgt. Robert C. Hankins and Sgt. Brian M. Wendel, face special courts-martial in the case, the Marines said. Arraignment dates have not been scheduled for either Marine.
A fourth drill instructor, whose name was not released, was disciplined and reassigned to administrative duties.
Glass postponed making a plea during a court appearance at San Diego Marine Corps Recruit Depot, where he worked, said spokesman Austin Mansfield. The charges include 91 counts of assault, 90 of failure to obey lawful orders and 27 of cruelty and maltreatment.
The charges cover about 110 alleged incidents between Dec. 23, 2006 and Feb. 10, the Marines said in press release. No member of his platoon was seriously injured.
Glass, who had worked as a drill sergeant for less than a year when the alleged mistreatment occurred, was relieved of duty as a drill instructor in February. He is scheduled to go to court-martial Nov. 8.
In court Wednesday, Glass did not speak except to answer basic questions from the judge, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Meeks. Defense lawyer Capt. Patrick J. Callahan asked that all counts be read aloud.
Callahan did not immediately respond to a phone message for comment Thursday.
About 17,000 recruits graduate each year from the San Diego depot. Newly enlisted Marines train there and at Parris Island, S.C.
Last year, four Marines at the San Diego depot were charged in the drowning of a fellow drill instructor during a water survival training course. Two were acquitted of wrongdoing in the case. Charges were dropped against a third Marine and a fourth received nonjudicial discipline.
Gary Solis, a former Marine Corps prosecutor and judge who teaches law of war at Georgetown University Law Center, estimates that on average about six drill instructors, or DIs, are charged nationwide each year with abusing recruits.
"These kids are helpless before DI's," Solis said. "The DI is God and they have no immediate recourse."
Abuse charges against Marines have become less common since six recruits drowned during a training exercise at Parris Island in 1956, Solis said.
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Good grief.
Complainers are frickin’ little maggots...
Not so. There’s a difference between discipline and outright abuse. I saw a DI go way beyond what was necessary....he was a sawed off shrimp who picked out the biggest recruits to abuse.
To this day I’d love to kick his ass.
If these pantywaist can’t take the training in boot camp;
they sure as hell won’t make it when the manure hits the fan.
Semper Fi,
“Hollywood Marine”
Kelly
What is your malfunction you maggot Elliot Spagat!
I’ll have to rely on Marines and military guys to tell me what side to take in this. What’s normal, what’s necessary, and what’s leftwing, castrate military men and send out a bunch of defenseless girlie men into combat BS?
This thread ran yesterday too.
You would be surprised at the number of pantywaists who think this guy was wrong.
Like I pointed out yesterday, Just a question: How do you prepare a recruit for capture?
If you can’t take a smack from a DI, how in hell are you going to handle POW time?
Just a thought.
I was in Navy bootcamp in the early 90s. Our CCs openly stated that us nubs had it easy thanks to crybaby wusses who couldn’t take it and ran home to Mommy. Mommy then would complain to her Congressman that little Johnny had to do too man push-ups. The wussification continues.
Already posted (with much wailing and gnashing of teeth)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885328/posts
That DI gave you something to remember and get pissed off about if you were ever taken captive...
“No member of his platoon was seriously injured.”
Is all that anyone need know.
If you can’t handle boot camp, you can’t be a Marine.
Semper Fi,
Kely
I took a fist in the pit of my stomach more than once. It got my attention and I never made that mistake again. Recruits nowadays are wimpy little maggots.
All my DIs were Viet combat vets. Gruff, steely-eyed, physically in good shape, and dedicated to making sure that those that wore the uniform on graduation day were up to the task ahead serving in the fleet.
They tucked us in every night and gave us a big kiss on our foreheads and wished us all sweet dreams. Well, all of them except for one DI. He stuffed a real f*-up in a wall locker and was ready to squirt lighter fluid and torch the recruit.
Needless to say, he was stopped by a fellow DI and was relieved of his duties. The rest of them could get physical from time to time but usually it was an elbow to the solar plexus, one DI was an expert shot, drop ya to your knees oft times but ya usually didn’t get that unless ya messed up.
FRom what it sounds with this DI and a couple others, they took it too personally, by that, their duty to breakdown and rebuild recruits that are up to the standards for being called a Marine. In these cases, let the Marines police their own as they have in the past.
Political correctness is a cancer that will ultimately destroy us from within.
Are you a Marine?
what is this country coming to when a MARINE can’t take a little discipline??
I was in the military 20 years ago... Military Police... we got our As*es tore up on a daily basis in boot camp! we took it like men... and I’m a woman!
“If you can’t take a smack from a DI, how in hell are you going to handle POW time?”
Thank you!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
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