Phil Smith
Col USMC (ret)
Phil Smith is a retired Marine Colonel. He enlisted in the Marine Corps and became an infantryman and then a reconnaissance Marine. We’ll talk to him about stopping the cycle of hazing that the Marine Corps goes through repeatedly: Class, Lecture, Warning, HAZING EVENT, investigation, court-martial.
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John Ubaldi
MGySgt USMC (ret)
Founder, The Ubaldi Reports
How does the Marine Corps deal with “hazing”? We’ll begin a long series of conversations about the subject with most enlisted Marines.
John Ubaldi was an 0311 and 0369 (infantryman and Infantry Plt Sgt) we’ll here his thoughts on these questions:
(1) What is hazing in the Marine Corps?
(2) Why do Marine haze?
(3) Who hazes?
(4) Who is the key to minimizing (knowing it won’t be eliminated) the amount of hazing that Marines experience?
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Dan Lamothe
Military Reporter
Washington Post
Washington Post military reporter Dan Lamothe joins us to discuss an article he wrote based on a Freedom of Information Act request. You can find the article here.
“The recruit’s skin was “liquefied” at the service’s storied boot camp at Parris Island, S.C., the documents said. The injuries occurred after he was ordered to perform unauthorized exercises under an upside-down laundry bin on a floor covered in bleach and required to stay in his wet pants for hours. The recruit reluctantly told another drill instructor about his burns that night, but stayed in training for a few more days. His condition deteriorated after he was told that he would not be able to graduate with his peers if he sought medical attention.”
Ultimately, the Drill Instructor was punished by a year in the brig. Intervention by other Drill Instructors might have spared a fellow Marine and the recruit horrible experiences.
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