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While I agree that he should be reduced to private, given the bad conduct discharge, 6 months in jail -- unacceptable!! The following just doesn't equate to the jail time.

jury had found that he beat or otherwise denigrated 23 men in his charge last winter

or does it?

1 posted on 11/16/2007 3:03:48 AM PST by Former Military Chick
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To: Former Military Chick

They used to promote guys like this. We are in a downward spiral.


2 posted on 11/16/2007 3:16:15 AM PST by CalvaryJohn (What is keeping that damned asteroid?)
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While I agree that he should be reduced to private, given the bad conduct discharge, 6 months in jail -- unacceptable!! The following just doesn't equate to the jail time.

jury had found that he beat or otherwise denigrated 23 men in his charge last winter or does it?

By today's standards, my DI's would have received 6 life sentences...!

3 posted on 11/16/2007 3:17:12 AM PST by Jay Howard Smith (Retired(25yrNCO)Military)
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Sgt. Glass did what he did because he thought it was the right thing to do and because it was what he was directed to do by Sgt. Hankins and Sgt. Wendel,”

If the other Sgt's outrank him, I do not trust this article to get the ranks correct, they will go to prison.

4 posted on 11/16/2007 3:17:54 AM PST by highpockets
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“San Diego Marines”

Personally I don’t like to joke about how California attitudes seep into Marine Boot camp just because of geographical location but......

This trial has left coast/left wing pansies written all over it.


5 posted on 11/16/2007 3:24:11 AM PST by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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To: Former Military Chick

the worst I ever got was an 8 hour trash can watch...outside, in the winter.....


7 posted on 11/16/2007 4:08:58 AM PST by joe fonebone (When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout)
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The abuse ranged from hitting recruits with a tent pole and flashlight to making them drink water until they threw up, then making them wallow in the vomit.

That in and of itself justifies the conviction and sentence.

8 posted on 11/16/2007 4:19:54 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (“We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!” --Duncan Hunter)
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I have 2 reactions:

“In his closing arguments yesterday for the sentencing phase, prosecutor Capt. Brent Stricker asked jurors to send Glass to prison.”

Seeing statements like that shows just how self-righteous one must be to be a prosecutor — you have to leave the button in your brain in the “off” position that would normally tell you that you’re really going “over the top”.

Second, this strikes me an analogous to Abu Ghraib prison camp abuse, in that both prison and boot camp provide a ‘theatre’ for certain people with a sadistic impulse. That’s why the activities have to be carefully managed. In Abu Ghraib, the army let a very little gang of immature, deviant,obsessed national guardsmen/women bring (with help from the leftist media) shame on the US.

So oversight in these settings is critical, and was clearly missing here.


13 posted on 11/16/2007 5:36:39 AM PST by WL-law
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