Because this shouldn't be forgotten

[apis_cerana]

Private Chen’s Family Learns More About Hazing by Fellow G.I.’s

The officers in command of the battalion of Pvt. Danny Chen, who the Army says committed suicide in Afghanistan in October after being hazed by fellow soldiers, were aware of the harsh treatment he had repeatedly received, his family said Thursday

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[myrrhmade]

This story is awful and it just keeps getting worse. I wish the media hit this harder. Repeatedly. Heartbreaking.

[tabaqui]

How is there all this hoo-rah about the military and veterans but more people aren't organizing, protesting, and fighting for a change in how the military *works*?

Between crap like this and the number of women raped by their peers, the US military needs a *serious*, public raking over and restructuring. Or *something*.

It's terrifying to think my niece wants to join up.

[sarahofcroydon]

This, so much this. This type of thing is just about institutionalised.

[justabwaybaby]

My dad retired from the Army not long after I graduated from high school. My little sister and I were constantly told growing up that we were not allowed to join the military

[justabwaybaby]

So... my "not too terrible" story is still pretty damn terrible... but that's the only terrible story he told us.

[sdx]

Wow.
When we hazed in the Navy (onboard my ship, wont speak for other places) it was nowhere near that bad.

We sent people on mail buoy watches, or to "blow the EOOW so we could get underway" (and everyone would send them on a goose chase until they got to DCS, where the Engineering Office of the Watch was. You got your 3rd class crow tacked on by other 3rds and highers "to keep it from flying away" but nobody ever took anything that far. Silly errands that made you feel a little dumb. No racial shit whatsoever.

I cant understand how a command would let things get anywhere near that bad. And if officers were involved, wow. I'm really at a loss there.

[dncingmalkavian]

I don't get why hazing is even necessary. Isn't warfare bad enough without that bullshit?

[dncingmalkavian]

I am pissed like hell about this. I can't even. Some of the shit the military does, and has done, just appalls me, and this is one more example of why I never entered service myself.

[bashou]

I'm pleasantly shocked that the Army seems to be pro-active in trying this case. Wish they were more pro-active in preventing the hazings, but things probably get out of hand when you're engaged in a war that's taking longer than two world wars.