{"id":17079,"date":"2012-04-12T00:16:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T03:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17079"},"modified":"2012-04-12T00:17:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T03:17:03","slug":"marines-define-hazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/12\/marines-define-hazing\/","title":{"rendered":"US Marines Officially Define Hazing"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the recurring questions during the recent controversies over military hazing has been what, precisely, is <\/em>hazing?\u00a0 While some may think it should be obvious, the nature of the military environment — and the need to explicitly enforce a regulation — make it far less so.\u00a0 Now<\/a>,<\/p>\n

The new Marine Corps policy now defines hazing as \u201cany conduct whereby a military member or members, regardless of service or rank, without proper authority causes another military member or members to suffer or be exposed to any activity which is cruel, abusive, humiliating, oppressive, demeaning or harmful.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Patriot Perspective makes some interesting distinctions<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Exposing a Marine to \u201ccruel, abusive, humiliating, oppressive, demeaning or harmful\u201d acts with the purpose of making a correction means that a Marine might be saved from being kicked out, from poor decisions, or from their own problems that they need to get over in order to watch out for their fellow Marines and make it back home safe.\u00a0 Everybody gets \u201chazed\u201d according to that definition throughout boot camp \u2013 because it\u2019s a matter of corrections and character building.\u00a0 The same thing happens afterwards in the fleet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that there are MOSes that still have actual hazing rituals \u2013 and they are part of customs and courtesies, but informally \u2013 and they\u2019re voluntary<\/em>.\u00a0 The Navy still conducts hazing rituals (for shellbacks and polliwogs and golden shellbacks and things like that), but they\u2019re voluntary<\/em>.\u00a0 If you want to go run around the deck of a ship in your underwear and get hit with the fire hose in the Arctic Circle, well, that\u2019s up to you.\u00a0 If you want to wade through bilge and garbage that should\u2019ve been thrown off the fantail to get your golden merman or whatever the Navy calls it, that\u2019s fine \u2013 it\u2019s voluntary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those Navy guys have an interesting idea of fun, but what do you do when you’re crammed together on a boat for months on end?\u00a0 Then again, the Air Force does have its Namings<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the recurring questions during the recent controversies over military hazing has been what, precisely, is hazing?\u00a0 While some may think it should be obvious, the nature of the military environment — and the need to explicitly enforce a regulation — make it far less so.\u00a0 Now, The new Marine Corps policy now defines hazing as \u201cany conduct whereby […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,2710,149,2,36],"class_list":["post-17079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-hazing","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}