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In regard to hazing in the Marine Corps and the other services, there does not seem to be a definition of that word included anywhere in this article. I know that recruits do get a summary of it, but it was not supplied with the article.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2021\/02\/07\/nearly-90-of-military-hazing-complaints-come-marine-corps-data-shows.html<\/a><\/p>\n From the article:\u00a0 An annual report on hazing within the military, obtained via a public-records request, shows that the Marine Corps, the smallest Defense Department service by population with the exception of\u00a0Space Force<\/a>, owns the lion’s share of hazing complaints and substantiated hazing incidents. The data, from fiscal year 2018, shows that 256 of 291 total hazing complaints that year, more than 88%, were made in the Corps, and 91 of 102 substantiated hazing incidents took place among Marines.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Navy<\/a>\u00a0was a distant second, with 17 complaints and 10 substantiated incidents; then the\u00a0Army<\/a>, with 13 complaints, none substantiated; and finally the\u00a0Air Force<\/a>, with five complaints, one substantiated. At the time of the reporting, 71 total complaints had been found unsubstantiated, 110 were pending a decision and eight were inconclusive or unknown.<\/p>\n The data, released to Military.com this month, provides what could be a troubling snapshot taken shortly after the Marines faced national scrutiny over hazing episodes at boot camp in\u00a0Parris Island<\/a>, South Carolina. Recruit Raheel Siddiqui reportedly jumped to his own death in 2016 from the third floor of a Parris Island building after abuse at the hands of a drill instructor, who received 10 years for maltreatment and other crimes at a Parris Island court-martial. Other\u00a0Marines who trained recruits were found to have inflicted chemical burns requiring skin grafts<\/a>\u00a0— the result of forced physical training on a bleach-covered floor — and ordered naked trainees to run back and forth, then jam together against the walls of a shower. – article<\/p>\n Whatever reasoning there is, if any, behind making physical attacks on recruits, it makes no sense. However, when you stoop low enough to do something like that shown in the photo, or something that will damage or injure your subject\/pupil\/recruit, it speaks volumes about you as a trainer or an instructor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"