U.S. soldiers punished for not attending Christian concert

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Platapus

We had something similar when I was in basic (30 years ago). You had a choice whether to attend church or not. If you choose not to attend, you cleaned latrines. Most of us decided to attend and just think of other stuff.

It was not right, but evidently it has been going on for a while.

Same here. Only I went to basic 18 years ago. (wow, it's been that long?). Every sunday, you had a choice. It was either go to this non denominational christian service, or get put on some crappy detail and have some TI riding your ass.