Wow. The level of disrespect is stunning.
http://fox6now.com/2014/02/18/wis-national-guard-investigates-military-funeral-honors-controversy/
I couldn’t help but notice the lack of former wartime service insignia on the right shoulders. Perhaps a deployment to Kunar Provence is warranted for these soldiers to fix their maturity problem. There are a few small FOBs that could use a hand…
Frigging beyond belief!
Time for some UCMJ to kick-in!
I can understand a group of guys, after spending a lengthy period of time rehearsing a solemn military service, taking a moment to cut up a little. From what I read, it’s a “training casket” and there were no actual remains involved. What I can’t understand is why any of these guys would post these pictures on a social media site. The lack of judgement is a greater concern to me.
Working in the medical field, I’ve heard and participated in more than a few conversations infused with a healthy dose of gallows humor that I’m confident would have caused patients and family members to blanche. But I never saw anyone stupid enough to record it and put it on the internet.
Not the first time stuff like this has happened. They should slam them. They’re adults and old enough to know right and wrong.
From another forum:
They should make these worthless pricks cycle through evolutions of nut crunchers until half of them wind up in the hospital. Then they should deploy them all to hostile areas and make them pull latrine duty during mortar attacks.
Then they should come up with some form of harsh punishment.
REMF’s!
Yeah, that second set of pics kinda seals the deal. Cutting the tension with a little humor is one thing. Making a mockery of the ceremony and lost/missing service members is way over the line.
Received this in email today from friend. This made me say somethings I don’t normally speak anymore.
After they pull shit burner detail they should be made to walk and find mines the old fashioned way.
That is still too easy. Route Clearance by ground pounding 1 boot at a time would still be too easy. Belly crawl all of Afghanistan is getting better.
When I saw the “Sucks 2 be U” I threw a TIA.
No humor there. USAF CC duty seems appropriate…maybe an EXTENDED stay in RC East…“Oh, time to rotate out? Uh, we lost your paperwork…but the XX Cav needs a combat controller, last one just got hit!”
POS, all of them.
Maybe after a few of them get the shit kicked out of them, some combat veterans can stand around their hospital bed and smile for photos and put them on the internet.
****ing POGs.
I am in.
But how exactly do we deal with the nationwide problem of self-obsessed, narcissistic, nihilistic, perpetually emotionally and psychologically adolescent dimwits, who have descended like a plague upon modern civilisation, which produced cretins such as this?
http://petapixel.com/2014/02/06/high-school-girl-takes-selfie-cadaver-wins-vote-repulsive-selfie/
http://www.stripes.com/news/us/air-force-will-take-appropriate-action-over-viral-pow-mia-emblem-photo-1.267780
Well the methodology in which to deal with such umm “people” would not be accepted as “legal” or “politically correct” by the modern standards of our society. However history tells us that wrongs will be made right through eradication. All great civilizations decay from within.
I seriously doubt this people considered that their pic may have been taken out of context when they took it. We ALL know soldiers can sometimes have a strange sense of humor. And I strongly suspect they are all thinking “oh shit, that was dumb” about now…
About now, before the advent of instant camera’s, social networking that the internet, a good First Sergeant would have them all burning shit while he screamed at them to get their head out of their ass, and the Company Commander would be standing over at the side just shaking his head. Sometimes the instant availablity of worldwide broadcast of stupidity isn’t a good thing. BUT WE DO NOT NEED TO OVERKILL THIS. I suspect that 90% of those in the pic are good soldiers, who a good ass-chewing will make them even better.
Maybe a start would be for parents to stop naming their kids things like “Cherish” and letting them grow up being told constantly they are “extra special.”
Of course this is nothing new, people will be as screwed up as society permits them to be. Currently we are an extremely permissive society that tolerates LOTS of things. Even worse when somebody does something wrong, instead of being corrected, they are often told it isn’t their fault and allowances are made.
When I was in 6th grade I knew better than to pull any of that shit and it wasn’t because the military had taught me better. All it takes is a parent who is more interested in making sure you are a good person rather than trying to be your BFF.
Asshats, asshats everywhere!
Unfortunately good parenting went out the window some time ago.
Of course this is nothing new, people will be as screwed up as society permits them to be. Currently we are an extremely permissive society that tolerates LOTS of things. Even worse when somebody does something wrong, instead of being corrected, they are often told it isn’t their fault and allowances are made.
Yep.
When I was in 6th grade I knew better than to pull any of that shit and it wasn’t because the military had taught me better. All it takes is a parent who is more interested in making sure you are a good person rather than trying to be your BFF.
Our Decadent Elites
by Peggy Noonan“We’re at a funny point in our political culture. To have judgment is to be an elitist. To have dignity is to be yesterday. To have standards is to be a hypocrite—you won’t always meet standards even when they’re your own, so why have them?”
http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2014/02/18/our-decadent-elites/
Drop the word “political” from her commentary and the sentiment is still accurate.
Only people capable of self-control are capable of self-government.
“No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.”
-George Mason
“A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy… While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties”
-Samuel Adams
My first thought when viewing that picture was “Who the hell was in charge of that detail?” As a former Officer myself, I would never have let that picture see the light of day. If they want to do something that goofy, they can take a picture without the casket OR the American Flag.
The HMFIC needs to stand before the man and these Soldiers should receive a Negative Counseling Statement at the very least.