Hazing. A very benign-sounding word that is a severe offense has EVOLVED over the years to include many more severe violations of servicemember rights.
Hazing is any action that is “cruel, abusive, humiliating, oppressive, demeaning or harmful.”
SECNAV Instruction 1610.2A
HAZING is bullying. Bullying comes in all shapes and sizes. Those are tools “used” to create “tough” servicemembers, from ridicule to physical and psychological harm.
In 2010 a sailor spoke up to refused to get the H1N1 vaccine. The sailor was too scared to speak up because they were practicing a Muslim. The sailor was disallowed to enjoy privileges on the ship they were attached to and could not participate in certain activities. In 2012, the sailor was assigned to land-based duty, but they still felt horrified that they were treated in such a discriminatory fashion.
Why did they refuse to get the vaccine? The hospital corpsman did so because they realized that the VACCINE had PORCINE DNA. In other words, it had PIG DNA as the vectors used to culture the vaccine were pork cells. The sailor was a practicing MUSLIM, and ingesting PORK is haram (sin). Were American Muslims advised of this before they took the vaccine?
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No more SHELLBACKS I guess!
The pussyification of the military continues.
Drivel. And Tore needs to hire some copy editors.
Hazing used to serve a useful purpose; to weed out the wimps. Now the wimps are running the military.
What’s wrong with being a Shellback, I am an official Shellback having crossed South of the Equator in March of 1973 on board the USS Kitty Hawk CV 63 on our way to Mombasa, Kenya. That was quite the party that day, with fake women wearing wigs and coconut boobs and all before they let real women on board ships in the US Navy. I even have a commemorative plaque that’s framed under glass to prove it, my wife framed it for me as a gift one year.
WHY do we have the ENEMY in our military? STILL?! 😡
Nidal Hasan & Ft. Hood 2009 (“workplace violence” 🙄 ) ring a bell?! 😡
Hell, for 12 weeks in mid-1969 I thought my name was maggot, my girl friend was Rosey Rotten-Crotch, hazing, mental and physical abuse was the right of passage.
The same was practiced for decades.
The mentally and physically weak became tougher and stronger, those that didn’t were medically discharged.
Well, except the college educated, anti-war draftee who chopped his trigger finger off. He went to Leavenworth for malingering and destruction of government property.
It was all good.