Prosecutor says Marine Corps drill instructor was

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Prosecutor says Marine Corps drill instructor was a 'bully'

WTF, that's the 'job description!'

Since they probably still steam letters home, open. "Hi ma, dad, really great here, lots of fresh air and exercise. D.I.'s are tough but fair and............strong!"

I watched a guy opposite me get the shit kicked out him for writing "pardon the Gung Ho stationary", mocking the Iwo Jima flag raising watercolor on the stationary they provided us.

I started my next letter with the 'fresh air and exercise' blah, blah, blah, and deftly segued into "great stationary, huh? Do you know how many Marines died on that island so we could enjoy the freedoms we have? Many.

So I figured I was 'inoculated' from sever beatings resulting from
inartfully worded letters. Joker was silly but he was also smart.

Source: Associated Press

Emery P. Dalesio, Associated Press
Updated 8:30 pm, Wednesday, November 8, 2017

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — A Marine Corps drill instructor was a "bully" who punched, choked and kicked recruits, focusing his abuse on three Muslim volunteers he derided as "terrorists," a military prosecutor said at a court-martial Wednesday.

Eyewitnesses testified of seeing Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Felix slug recruits in the face and hit others with a rifle, terrorizing recruits sometimes while drunk, Lt. Col. John Norman said in his closing arguments.

"He was drunk on power and sometimes Fireball whisky, and he used that power again and again," Norman said. "He abused his power to abuse his recruits. He punched them. He kicked them. He degraded their religion, and he put them in industrial appliances."

Felix did not testify. His chief defense attorney, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Daniel Bridges, said the dozens of prosecution witnesses gave contradictory accounts which the government unfairly fashioned into a case against the brawny drill instructor who called all recruits "terrorist."

Young men told investigators fanciful stories including one in which Felix grabbed a recruit by the throat and lifted him off the ground with one arm, Bridges said.

http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Trial...341317.php

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