I am sickened and horrifed at the Marine Recruit death.
I wrote to my Congressman.
I went to the training, we had 2 deaths, but that was 1978, and I had hoped things like that wouldn't happen in 2005, I was wrong.
My younger son (16 in April) has already spoken to the Marine recruiters. The training is tough, demanding, physically and mentally, but you shouldn't die from it. You shouldn't be terrorized.
Ah hell, I'm so sick about it.
Do you have a link to the story? I'm not sure what happened but any training death is unacceptable.
When I was at one of my advanced courses, there was also a group of young recruits training there. One of the females fell from a rope ladder and broke her neck and is now a parplegic. All because the TI's thought it would be good to take them on the confidence course....that had previously been banned and condemned.
i never could watch the news on tv... i have no clue whats going on in the world...
News is no longer news... it's all just information hyped to sell advertising space on television and in newspapers...
Originally posted by Chosen One
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That pretty much says it all. I watch too much news, I go into the deepest blue funk. I'll only go so far to keep up and then I have to take a rest or I just feel like...Ain't missing much besides the world's most horrific, poorly directed and stil continuing horror flick.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's horrific. I can't believe after hearing stuff like this for so many years people still want to enlist. I hope people wake up so people like this kid don't die in vain.Originally posted by -Dark Angel-:
...and I hate to be like this, but I wonder what happened in that pool, too.
I agree with you DA, maybe I'm just conspiricy minded, but there seems like a missing puzzle piece in that story. What did happen in that pool?
That is just horrible, and I am sure that this sort of abuse is all too common in the Military. As if the brainwashing isn't bad enough.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Marines probe boot camp drowning
Drill instructor caught on tape striking 19-year-old
By Jim Miklaszewski
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 7:39 p.m. ET Feb. 17, 2005An autopsy revealed 19-year-old Jason Tharp drowned last week during water survival training at the Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, S.C.
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Video shot on Feb. 7, the day before Tharp's death, by NBC affiliate WIS-TV in Columbia, S.C., shows Tharp, visibly shaken and almost terrified, taking a forearm shot from a Marine drill instructor.
In the Marines only five weeks, Tharp had written seven letters home telling his family he wanted out. His father, John Tharp, claims Jason had been singled out by drill instructors because he couldn't keep up with the rigorous basic training.
"I don?t know how they could treat my son the way we saw on that video," says Tharp. "He never hurt nobody. He'd do anything anybody asked him."
During last week's training, Tharp, seen on the WIS-TV video, at first refused to get into the water.
"He's just afraid because he is not able to do the swim correctly right now, and he just wants to leave and go home," said Staff Sgt. Anthony Davis on the Feb. 7 videotape.
After 20 minutes of trying to coax Tharp into the pool, the drill instructor turned physical in apparent violation of Marine Corps regulations ? striking Tharp across the chest.
"That right there, where this Marine grabs the recruit, this is not how you treat recruits," said Eugene Fidell, the president of the National Institute of Military Justice, when NBC News showed him the video. "I mean, this is a wrongful touching. Basically, it's an assault."
Marine Corps officials say Tharp voluntarily entered the pool the next day, where he drowned during a 25-meter swim. Officials also say there's no early evidence of any misconduct by Marine instructors at the time Jason drowned, but the conduct caught on camera the day before raises questions about exactly what happened in that pool.
Jason's father is considering a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Marines.
"We just want justice for Jason," says Tharp. "To get some kind of bill passed to where this won't happen to another family."
The Navy and Marines are investigating Jason's death and the conduct of the drill instructors who were supposed to protect him.
? 2005 MSNBC Interactive
This has really affected me and not in a positive manner. I don't know what to do. I wrote my congressman. I'm, hell, I don't know. I need to get away or something.
R.I.P Jason Tharp
This is a disgusting tragic story.
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