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Originally Posted by Hakahura
This is hardly prisoner abuse or "Tailhook".
"I'll never understand", easy answer to that is to serve for a few years in any service for pretty much any nation.
Speaking as a serviceman this is just part of the life.
Relax, chill out, the military is different to civilian life.
We do have different standards and values.
To my eyes this video is a bunch of shipmates having a laugh entertaining their shipmates.
Unfortuantly this officer will probably end up in alot of trouble, IMO thats a shame because a sense of humour is one of the prime requirements of any serviceman. If you can't have a laugh or shrug of something that offends you, how on earth would you cope on operations?
Really who do you want to defend you? A collection of PC touchy feely hug the world types.
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Yeah, see I don't buy the whole 'it's in the culture' argument. I also don't believe that requiring military personnel to excercise the discipline and forethought as to not engage in this type of behavior while on active duty makes them poor soldiers, or touchy feely hug the world types. Furthermore, since I do live in a western liberal democratic republic, where the military arm is answerable to the civilians, I see outrage over this behavior as perfectly normal, reasonable and acceptable.