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07-01-16, 08:51 AM #1
15 Drill Instructors accused of "Hazing - Abuse"...
Sounds like another "Witch Hunt"...!!!
The Marine Corps is investigating allegations of hazing, physical abuse, assault, and oversight failures among 15 drill instructors based at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, officials said.
News of this sweeping new probe comes on the heels of the March 18 death of Raheel Siddiqui, a 20-year-old Muslim-American recruit who had been at boot camp just 11 days when he died from a reported fall from the fourth floor of a barracks building.
All drill instructors under investigation are attached to 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, to which Siddiqui was assigned, Capt. Joshua Pena, a spokesman for Marine Corps Training and Education Command, said in a statement.
"During the course of the Recruit Siddiqui death investigation, facts revealed a drill instructor was improperly placed in charge of recruits while he was subject to an ongoing investigation," Pena said in the statement. "Existing orders, policies and procedures to prevent improper assignments were not followed.
Interim corrective actions have already been taken."
The Siddiqui family has retained a lawyer, who has said publicly that he fears the recruit's Muslim faith may have subjected him to inappropriate treatment. Rep. Debbie Dingell, a Democratic Congresswoman from Siddiqui's home state of Michigan, has also queried the Marine Corps on whether hazing played a role in his death.
The allegations of recruit mistreatment by drill instructors date back to November 2015, according to the statement. They may provide context for what has been a year of tumult for the Marines' East Coast boot camp.
On March 31, Parris Island officials announced that Lt. Col. Joshua Kissoon, commander of 3rd Recruit Training Battalion had been relieved in the wake of a Marine Corps Inspector General investigation. That investigation has not been made public.
Then, on June 6, officials announced that Col. Paul Cucinotta, commanding officer of Recruit Training Regiment, which oversees the four Parris Island recruit training battalions, had also been fired. Unlike Kissoon's relief, Cucinotta's was directly connected to Siddiqui's death, an official confirmed.
It would later emerge that the senior enlisted leader of Recruit Training Regiment, Sgt. Maj. Nicholas Dabreau, had also been relieved.
As key leaders were removed, the Marine Corps also quietly sidelined a number of drill instructors as it launched a review of policies and procedures.
"Personnel were removed from their assigned duties of training recruits while ongoing investigations are underway," Parris Island spokesman Capt. Gregory Carroll told Military.com in a June 13 statement. "As the investigation continues, if warranted, additional actions may be taken."
The drill instructors under investigation will stay removed from the job of training recruits while the investigation continues, Pena said. He said they were all currently assigned to duties that did not involve direct access to recruits.
Pena told Military.com it was not clear when the investigation would be completed. The commander of TECOM, Maj. Gen. James Lukeman, will make final decisions about how to act on the investigation once completed. The Marine Corps has not ruled out criminal proceedings at this point.
In a statement, Lukeman said the Marine Corps oversaw about 1,000 drill instructors, and said the integrity of the Marine Corps recruit training program was a top priority.
"We take every allegation of misconduct very seriously and will review each investigation carefully," he said.
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07-01-16, 09:30 AM #2
There are SOME idiots that have been trying to destroy the Marine Corps and it's long proven traditions and training methods since at least the early 1970's, then the same group crybabies about their kids being abused by the enemy in war... as MY DI said, the only thing a DI cannot do to a recruit is "kill and eat them"... something that the ENEMY CAN and possibly HAS done.... think about that for a minute... if you are not HARDER than your enemy, how can you expect to defeat him????....
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07-01-16, 09:45 AM #3
OT, along those lines Chesty said it best:
“Our Country won’t go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won’t be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!”
– Lt. Gen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC
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07-01-16, 09:46 AM #4
William, we grew up in an era when you had to endure to survive. My Platoon Commander...SSGT. R.O.Reed was a living terror. Marines today wouldn't believe the things we were subjected to. I remember during the debates on water-boarding. A bleeding heart Senator said that's not America, to torture people. He commented....how would you like to be deprived of sleep, chocked, beaten daily, and put through bull**** till you had no will power, gouged in the eyes, and be constantly harassed, and made to feel ashamed of yourself.............A Marine in the back of the audience yelled out......I thought we was talking about torture....not Marine Corps boot-camp!
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07-01-16, 02:03 PM #5
3rd RTR. We just had this discussion this week about the DI's there being the hardest. Maybe this is an indication of that? I find it interesting this recruit just happened to be in the 3rd Herd - of all places.
Here is my biggest question. Why is it that PI stays in the headlines for leadership issues and we never hear anything about MCRD, San Diego? Only difference between the two is, PI has females (not a factor in this particular incident of course but it has been in others).
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07-01-16, 03:18 PM #6
That's because in SD they make tough Marines, not whinners like in PI. Any time a SD Marine pulls off his sun glasses.....you better stand down.
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07-01-16, 03:29 PM #7
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07-01-16, 04:04 PM #8
Leadership is the keyword. The Drill Instructors at SD are in the spotlight at all times as opposed to PI where they are out in the boonies and it takes more eyes to keep them in the spotlight. The SD Drill Instructors are constantly in the eye of the public as MCRD is located right down town and is a showplace for the city.
It used to be easier for a civilian type to get aboard the base than it was for a Marine.
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07-01-16, 08:39 PM #9
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