A sad tale.
http://www.stripes.com/news/marine-...azing-after-nephew-committed-suicide-1.408982
Marine in Afghanistan falls asleep four times on watch.
Like Bergdahl, these kind of events make me wonder if we are taking kids into the services not because they should be there, but because there's no one else available.
This is nothing new and my dad described for me a "blanket party" he was involved in while going through Navy basic in 1941. But some people just aren't cut out for the military.
http://www.stripes.com/news/marine-...azing-after-nephew-committed-suicide-1.408982
Marine in Afghanistan falls asleep four times on watch.
For 3 ½ hours that night, Lew did push-ups and crunches in full body armor with a boot on his back, according to a military investigation report obtained by the Marine Corps Times and reported in 2011. He was allegedly kicked, stomped and punched, and was ordered to dig a 6-foot-deep foxhole so he could serve watch standing up. At one point, a bag of sand was poured over his nose and mouth, military juries were later told.
At 3:43 a.m. on April 3 — 22 minutes after the violent hazing ended — Lew crawled into the foxhole his fellow Marines reportedly forced him to dig and scrawled a message on his arm.
“May hate me now, but in the long run this was the right choice," it read. "I'm sorry my mom deserves the truth."
Then he put the muzzle of his machine gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. He was scheduled to return home just a few months later.
Like Bergdahl, these kind of events make me wonder if we are taking kids into the services not because they should be there, but because there's no one else available.
This is nothing new and my dad described for me a "blanket party" he was involved in while going through Navy basic in 1941. But some people just aren't cut out for the military.