ping!
Another incident he [Jason Washburn] describes was a step beyond hazing. He and another marine had had a disagreement. The punishment was that they were tied together – and sent out on patrol.
“Outside of the camp, in a war zone tied together, patrolling? Insane,” he says.
Maybe this was an unconventional punishment for a couple of soldiers who were butting heads, but I can't see it as criminal, or any more dangerous than having two soldiers in a team who were at odds with one another.
When my kids were younger, there was a day that their sibling bickering had reached a point that I had to intervene in a way that some headshrinkers would probably call extreme. I tied one's right leg to the other's left leg, and left them on the sofa with the instructions that they were now stuck with each other. After their initial whining and grumbling, it wasn't long before they were laughing... and working together to get around the room and out to the kitchen for a snack. I only had to do that one time.
Granted, tying two soldiers together in a combat zone is not the same situation as two kids in a house in an American city; but the consequences of having two soldiers working at cross purposes just to piss off the other could get everybody killed. The officer who tied them together probably did them a favor, forcing them to work together to keep from getting themselves (and everybody else in their group) killed.
I don't have much patience with whiners, i guess.