The elephant in the room: We will NEVER know what happened between Casey A and those women. It was truly a private matter. If he had been convicted of some crime, it would become public record, but, short of that, nobody has any clue whatsoever.

Then you’d be wrong.

I do think Lonergan is silly to have gotten this worked up over a college paper op-ed. But I also agree that college students aren’t 12, they’re legally adults and if you’re publishing, then yeah, don’t be a fucking baby and learn to deal with the fact that what you write might get you an angry response, even from…

For many, military indoctrination will result in emotional and mental leveling, but it’s not mandatory. To teach someone to obey orders in tense, stressful situations and to harm others as called for does not require the debasement or complete dehumanization of the enemy, much less of team mates or friends who happen…

It’s a weird, sleep-deprived, stressful time where lots of strange ideas seem normal. I remember someone telling me that a guy tried to hang himself in his platoon, and a bunch of recruits stood there and watched him because no one had the wherewithal to try and stop him or shout for help— all common sense leaves you…

Well said.

I’ve heard they mentally and emotionally destroy/tear down Marines in training camp. They want clean slates in order to get them ready to fight in the front lines.

Eh, I did those things minus the killing and for me it zapped all sense of power and autonomy. But it wasn’t my choice, these men sign up for this, they put themselves in line for those situations. I think many of the men attracted to the military are the chauvenistic, hyper-masculinity-worshipping cavemen who would…

So let me get this straight. They go through weeks, months, and years of hard physical training in what is supposed to be the manliest of the manliest service branches - marching, sleep deprivation, hand-to-hand combat. They throw grenades, fire rocket launchers, and shoot all manner of weapons from pistols to heavy…

And another article noted 6000 sexual assaults reported in 2015 by active duty soldiers.

At least some of them probably aren’t currently in the Marines. Almost everything seems to lead to rape threats and death threats these days. Who knows, maybe some are just random guys who like to threaten. But dishonorable discharge would be appropriate.

You should be able to trust people. Co worker and romantic partners should be people that you can trust. It’s that simple.

So basically any large group of men just turn feral and can’t be trusted? It might seem hyperbolic but I am truly wondering. Why exactly should I trust men?

This is why men shouldn’t be allowed in the military.

I’m not sure that many of those guys were thinking that far ahead, or even thinking with the head on their shoulders.

“Sgt. Maj. Ronald L. Green, the top enlisted member of the Marine Corps, was more direct. “These negative behaviors are absolutely contrary to what we represent,””

The same people who will rail against ISIS (and claim to defend the country from those awful religious terrorists) happily threatening rape of a guys wife and the sexual violation of his daughter because he exposed their hatred of women.

I am so fucking pissed off at these human refuse bins, for so many reasons. I am pissed at the violation of my fellow servicemembers and veterans. I am pissed that that violaton went on so long. I am pissed at the harassment of the whistleblower who held up the integrity to which we are all supposed to swear. I don’t…

“Brennan tells the Marine Corps Times that there’s a ‘bounty on pictures of my daughter...It has been suggested that my wife should be raped as a result of this, and people are openly suggesting that I should be killed...Can you imagine being one of the victims?’”

I don’t know, I have mixed feelings about that. I attended a good journalism school, was an editor at the school newspaper, and heated back and forth between student writers and alumni happened occasionally; not to mention the brutal weekly critique sessions with our faculty advisors. It’s part of the learning process…