I pee Marine?

[IAN 2411]

Let's keep a sense of proportion here.

Now that film has been made viral keeping a sense of proportion will be almost impossibility. There will be those in the press that think they are a little bit morally right than others and it will most probably run.

I don't think pissing over a dead body justifies imprisonment,

I agree with that, but that film was their knife in the back.

but I do think it raises questions about a person's suitability to serve in the armed forces,

When in a combat situation and the fire fight is over, you realise your still alive but the adrenalin is still pushing through your body at a tremendous speed. The mind is not working properly because the adrenalin is pushing you on a high. There is no training that can compensate for the real thing it can only prepare you for the event. Neither can training predict the strength of mind in advance, that everyone knows at its best is unstable in the strongest of people, at some stage in a person’s life it lets you down then stupidity takes over.

because the civilians served by the military do not expect it.

What do they expect? What do you expect? I expect the military to go and do the job that is expected of them in any damn way that stops others having to finish the task. I expect there to be the small atrocities on both sides because that is the way forces get results and the way wars go. I expect it to be done without me being told in detail how it was done. I am relieved that it is them doing it now and not me, as I have done my bit. I will not throw the first stone at someone that has done something stupid in action, because under the same circumstances it could have been me.

As I said in my earlier post, I do not condone what they did but neither will I condemn them. The person that should have the guilt for that mild atrocity against the dead is the person that filmed it. He has shamed his country and the Marines, by placing it in a humiliating position in the eyes of the world. To be honest he has given away military secrets!!! I will ask again is this an isolated case? Do I really care or would I care if they were British? No I would only care if there was another dick head filming them and making it public.

The militarily, train and expect their soldiers to go and kill while fighting for their country without a conscience. I do not think it right because of one stupid act for any soldier to be given a conscience for his actions on his return home.

Be well IAN 2411