The Marine who threw a puppy over a cliff, recorded it and then posted it on YouTube is “being processed for separation” (typical military language):
The Marine Corps said Wednesday it was expelling one Marine and disciplining another for their roles in a video showing a Marine throwing a puppy off a cliff while on patrol in Iraq.
The 17-second video posted on YouTube drew sharp condemnation from animal rights groups when it came to light in March.
The clip shows two Marines joking before one hurls the puppy into a rocky gully. A yelping sound is heard as it flips through the air.
“That’s mean. That’s mean, Motari,” an off-camera Marine is heard telling the Marine who tossed the black and white dog. The off-camera Marine snickered slightly afterward.
Lance Cpl. David Motari, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment at Kaneohe Bay, is “being processed for separation” from the Marine Corps, the Marine Corps said in a news release. He also received unspecified “non-judicial punishment.”
posted June 12, 2008 at 1:47 pm
The guy needs therapy. Otherwise, he may throw a human being off a cliff next time around.
posted June 12, 2008 at 1:52 pm
But the Marines were absolutely right to expel him.
posted June 12, 2008 at 2:31 pm
I’m a veteran and I support the troops, but I do believe that this type of behavior is partly a by-product of the extremely aggressive training and indoctrination given to our direct combat units, especially infantry and especially the Marines. They encourage a very strong kill-or-be-killed mentality. It’s what makes them such effective soldiers, but it also de-sensitizes them to a certain degree. Combine that with a person who is perhaps naturally cruel to begin with, and this is what you get. This and war crimes.
It becomes a real double-edged sword. I like the security they provide, but some of the conduct and attitudes I witnessed in the service made me uncomfortable. It’s one of the reasons I left. I’m not sure what the answer is.
posted June 12, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Good, I could care less about the puppy but that was just criminally stupid and the military doesn’t need guys like him going on.
posted June 12, 2008 at 4:21 pm
This made me so sick. I guess anybody is taken into the military nowdays. it is really getting dark out there but we have to shine forth our lights of Jesus for those who want to change.
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posted June 12, 2008 at 4:25 pm
“the military doesn’t need guys like him”
Hmmm …
“They have reduced the educational standards, for example, so that they’re getting more soldiers who didn’t go to high school, let alone graduate from high school.
Recruiters are granting thousands of what they call “moral waivers”. A “moral waiver” it turns out means they’ll take someone who has committed a crime or even someone who has been in prison. Last year, a total of 8,129 “moral waivers” were given to men who volunteered for the Army.” Andy Rooney, 60 Minutes
And don’t let’s forget that they fired very capable (and much needed) Arabic translators simply because they were gay.
Maybe the military DOES ‘need’ these aggressive, dog-murdering types – to fill in so many vacancies caused by sheer stupidity and homophobia.
OR, maybe America needs to re-think its selection for “Commander/Decider-in-Chief”. The current one is a disml failure on so many counts, prime among them being his dishonesty.
posted June 12, 2008 at 5:49 pm
So, recovering ex-whatever, I’m assuming you can prove that THIS PARTICULAR Marine was recruited under some kind of moral or educational waiver? NO? Then you’re just using this sad incident to make yet another frivolous swipe at the administration. Thanks for clearing that up.
posted June 12, 2008 at 5:56 pm
I’m no fan of this administration. But whatever level of this administration made this decision, they were right.
My father, who was a Marine in WWII, told me of his comrades knocking gold teeth out of Japanese soldiers, dead and alive, and dumping the bodies in a lagoon. Atrocities of the other side are well known. War brings out horrible things in good people. But the difference was, nobody posted the second world war on YouTube.