Regardless of guilt or innocence to this particular Marine, I just know that this does not work well for recruitment. A young man or woman hearing the news that a Marine or and of our Military has been found guilty of murder while fighting in Iraq or any other country they are in, would make that potential recruit to rethink signing up because something like this could happen to them.
Nothing like fighting a PC War.
We have a good number of Marines at our air base here. They have been bred to believe in nobody but their fellow Marine combat soldiers. They don’t even associate much with us airmen.
I can’t take offense, though. That’s why they’re special, and God Bless them for it. So this case isn’t really a big shock to them: they’re always felt that they can’t trust anybody except a fellow combat Marine. Note, I said combat. In the opinion of a couple fine Marines I’ve spoken to here on base since last night, they don’t look at JAG’s as fellow soldiers, they look at them as lawyers.
I tried to point out that there ARE good JAG’s, and was met by the “Marine Death Gaze”.
Regardless, Marines are God’s gift to the United States. They fight any number of opponents and still win, even if the opponents are home grown (like the media/JAG’s).