I had over 20 years , active and Guard and we were always trained not to do this kind of thing , 1 concession I would make is I was never in combat so It may be from the stress he misbehaved
the spotlight was placed on them by the guy taking the video and releasing it to the world - - - Updated - - - I expect better of our military as do most military personal "R.I.P. (Patriotic) Marine Who Peed On Dead Taliban Dies" it was not a liberal that started this thread and attributed this man to that incident in the title as if this is what he is to be remembered for .
He used the enemies guts to grease the tank wheels!! Lol. Patton was the man. We need more generals like him.
Oh yeah, they'll tell you not to all day long. We get cultural sensitivity training and all that stuff prior to every deployment. Then a parachute grenade takes the front of one of your soldier's head off. Sensitivity goes out the window. You have time to reflect on it later when you are pressure hosing your buddies brains out of the wrecked humvee.
Now he can pee on them all the time. He can just look over the edge of heaven, take aim, and pee all over all the Taliban/ISIS/Al Qaeda/Hamas/Hezbollah/Boko Haram members on their way to hell.
I know, blatant hypocrisy. If it wasn't for those guys who pissed on the Taliban then people like that "artist" wouldn't be able to freely express his himself by putting a crucifix in a jar of (*)(*)(*)(*) and (*)(*)(*)(*) on a whole religion. Funny how that works eh?
Ah, okay. So you're trash if you overdose on drugs -- the exception being if you have served before. Then it's nullified. Got it.
The U.S. Army had it's George S. Patton and the U.S. Marines had it's Chesty Puller. Patton and Puller were cousins so they say. http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=775 http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=55 >" Lewis Burwell Puller was born in West Point,Virginia, on June 26, 1898. A second cousin of General George S. Patton and the grandson of a Confederate veteran, Puller came from a military family and idolized the likes of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and Robert E. Lee while growing up..."< http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Puller_Lewis_Burwell_Chesty_1898-1970
That's some dangerous logic and you know it. Where do you draw the line? Do you also think it's okay if a few local girls get raped because the boys need to "let off a little steam"? - - - Updated - - - It wasn't enough to kill the bastards?
Are you trying to put words in my mouth or something? I never mentioned about anyone being trash, nor said the word in my statement. Does the Taliban getting disrespected bother you that much or something? Geez I'd hate to see your anger when people get beheaded, burned alive or knowing children are being sold as sex slaves.......Oh wait a minute, you don't SAY (*)(*)(*)(*) ABOUT THAT!!!!!!!!!!!! - - - Updated - - - Trying to equate Islamic nutjobs who try to kill everyone too innocent women who get raped? nice!
Why add fuel to the flame. By uploading the video of Marines urinating on the corpses of dead Taliban combatants, you've just incensed a whole bunch of people. Youtube gets 1 billiion unique visitors annually, many of whom love to find something to hate about the United States...you've just given them a reason. I personally don't consider it all that egregious, though I've never been in combat, however some may find it offensive so why give them ammunition to defame the U.S. armed forces? Why upload for any resident of planet Earth with an internet connection to watch? Someone did not think this through.
No, the danger is to you, the leap you just took was amazing. Wear a GoPro and share the feat with us next time, better than base jumping I'm sure. Cheers Labour
Nope, the rape is not ok. There is a difference between combatants and innocents that it is never ok to cross. As soon as someone takes up arms against me or my men, it's game on. I'm sending you to hell, and I don't care much how it is done, humanely or otherwise. If it is an honorable opponent, is try to give him a quick and painless death. If it is ISIS and the like, I could care less if they suffer or are humiliated. If they are non combatants, I do my damnedest not to harm them, but it is war, and (*)(*)(*)(*) happens sometimes. War is hell.
You can expect reality FA, and that is the way it is. War on the real battlefield is not some video game, and what the enemy does to our soldiers has always been far worse that what we have done. You would have to be there to understand
Yup, it changes you for sure. It somehow brings out the best and the worst in you at the same time. It will make you willing to extinguish a life one moment, while risking your own life to protect others the next.
99.9% of ALL solders - EVER - who have worn a United States Military Uniform would fine the whole thing distasteful and disrespectful. These men have no honor and to think they did is disservice to the millions who've worn the uniform proudly and didn't feel the need to urinate on an enemy warriors dead body.
this was disgusting and anyone that does it or supports it should be ashamed of themselves, if the Taliban did this to American soldiers would you be so excusing of them, of course not, we would be disgusted and rightly so - we have come to expect this from them, lets not come to expect it from our own..... we are better then that ..
You obviously don't realize Americans are humans also, and what you find disgusting is something you have no clue about. My worse fear in Vietnam was not being killed, it was being captured and tortured. So please spare me your righteous indignity, war is ugly, and we have all witnessed how vicious and brutal islamo-nazis really are
I don't know what unit you're in, or have been in, but that is pretty damned mild compared to a lot of the stuff I've seen. Granted, we don't go posting it on Facebook or whatever, but if you've been outside the wire more than a few times, you will see things like this. It's not pleasant, but to say they have no honor is a pretty terrible thing to say to someone who sacrificed so much for their country.