For the past 6 or 7 years, I’ve kept an increasingly fat folder labelled “Atrocities.” It contained reports of abuses by U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan so egregious that even the military couldn’t ignore them. I retitled it “A Few Bad Apples” when it became clear that those who got caught had to be portrayed as anomalies so as to avoid the central question of what the hell they’re doing there in the first place.


Friday, July 7, 2017

Marine boot camp: the few, the chosen, the bad apples

A story about hazing a Marine recuit to death. 

Another story, another well-done story, another awful story. These stories show up periodically and give evidence that this is not just the actions of a few bad apples (the term is, of course, used), but the inevitable spawn of a corrupt, cruel, and misaligned culture.

Another story and what will change?


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