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Crazy News from a friend here in the U.S. Army.
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Lekker



Joined: 09 Feb 2008
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:00 pm    Post subject: Crazy News from a friend here in the U.S. Army. Reply with quote

I was out the other night talking to a friend who is here in the Army. Seems that at his base three male officers raped a male private, in the barracks. Also, some of them were busted for smoking crack or something. This is all just news, but I don't think he was lying. Crazy.
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Faunaki



Joined: 15 Jun 2007

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds like normal army life to me. I wanted to join when I was younger but read about the rate of females getting raped by their fellows and decided not to go that route.
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spliff



Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's a lot to take from your superior officers, IMHO. Was your "buddy" the one selling the crack?
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bovinerebel



Joined: 27 Feb 2008

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was out and about in a "base town" over the weekend. I've hung out at Songtan before and the army guys there are an alright bunch , although it being an airbase they are officer class.

I was hanging out at another base full of grunts this weekend though. All I can say is that I'm getting old. I could not wrap my mind around the fact that these children were soldiers. I spoke to a few of the kids and they do get up to all sorts of nonsense which I imagine easily wouldn't endear them to the locals.
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bassexpander



Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They are dipping lower and lower into the pool to find people to join the military in the USA. I read about this, and asked a mid-level officer friend about it. He said it's very true. He calls them the "Cap on sideways/baggy pants" crowd.
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I_Am_The_Kiwi



Joined: 10 Jun 2008

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:15 pm    Post subject: Re: Crazy News from a friend here in the U.S. Army. Reply with quote

Lekker wrote:
three male officers raped a male private


a male private....WTF
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Scotticus



Joined: 18 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:53 pm    Post subject: Re: Crazy News from a friend here in the U.S. Army. Reply with quote

Lekker wrote:
Seems that at his base three male officers raped a male private, in the barracks.


I had a friend in the Marines a few years ago. He would tell us stories about the shit they did to people (mind you he would tell these stories as if they were no big deal). My favorite was the guy who got his face spunked on by 5-6 guys while he was sleeping. You'd think there'd be more shootings with shit like that happening so regularly and with weapons so close at hand.
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CentralCali



Joined: 17 May 2007

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds like rumor to me. Got anything to prove the assertions?
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skeeterses



Joined: 25 Oct 2007

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I was attending college 5 years ago, I met an Army friend and he said that this kind of crap goes on in the Korean Army.
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Bigfeet



Joined: 29 May 2008
Location: Grrrrr.....

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sheesh, glad none of this shit happend to me when I was in.
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lastat06513



Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stuff like that can happen and as for the selling of crack?.......How could they get it past DHS?, especially since they monitor all freight coming and going to EVERY military base worldwide......I know that several DoD civs and a soldier were arrested for buying some hashish from some Eritreans in Kuwait and selling it to the Kuwaitis (they were returned to US custody and shipped back to the US under the SOFA treaty the US has with Kuwait).
Stuff like does happen from time to time, however such incidents are far and few compared to the greater public.......except for the statistical data on rape- the US military has the highest percentage of rape cases than any other part of American society...........
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R-Seoul



Joined: 23 Aug 2006
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:42 pm    Post subject: Re: Crazy News from a friend here in the U.S. Army. Reply with quote

Scotticus wrote:
Lekker wrote:
Seems that at his base three male officers raped a male private, in the barracks.


I had a friend in the Marines a few years ago. He would tell us stories about the shit they did to people (mind you he would tell these stories as if they were no big deal). My favorite was the guy who got his face spunked on by 5-6 guys while he was sleeping. You'd think there'd be more shootings with shit like that happening so regularly and with weapons so close at hand.


Hmm 'the guy' wouldn't have happened to be you Scotticus?
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DaeguKid



Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Location: Daegu

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

CentralCali wrote:
Sounds like rumor to me. Got anything to prove the assertions?


Yeah, he has a video he plans on putting up on youtube. No, wait he recorded the conversation with his buddy and is going to post a podcast! WTF? He told us it was a conversation with his buddy. Cali, the US army can never do any wrong in your world!

Do you think an organization as large as the American military is as clean as a whistle? If you do your bent. And another thing, it's the military, they don't air their dirty laundry in the media. In fact they put much effort to make sure it stays in house.

"got anything to prove the assertions"...my god! Rolling Eyes
DK
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Beej



Joined: 05 Mar 2005
Location: Eungam Loop

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:57 pm    Post subject: Re: Crazy News from a friend here in the U.S. Army. Reply with quote

Scotticus wrote:
Lekker wrote:
Seems that at his base three male officers raped a male private, in the barracks.


I had a friend in the Marines a few years ago. He would tell us stories about the shit they did to people (mind you he would tell these stories as if they were no big deal). My favorite was the guy who got his face spunked on by 5-6 guys while he was sleeping. You'd think there'd be more shootings with shit like that happening so regularly and with weapons so close at hand.


Did your friend really tell you this? Are you sure it isnt one of your supressed memories. Because I was watching Law and Order SUV and memory supression is quite common.
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CentralCali



Joined: 17 May 2007

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DaeguKid wrote:
Yeah, he has a video he plans on putting up on youtube. No, wait he recorded the conversation with his buddy and is going to post a podcast! WTF? He told us it was a conversation with his buddy. Cali, the US army can never do any wrong in your world!

Do you think an organization as large as the American military is as clean as a whistle? If you do your bent. And another thing, it's the military, they don't air their dirty laundry in the media. In fact they put much effort to make sure it stays in house.

"got anything to prove the assertions"...my god! Rolling Eyes
DK


Jerk. I never made any of the assertions or had any of the attitudes you have attributed to me.
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