There’s got to be a better way than handing down communal punishments [Stars & Stripes], but for the love of Christ, this business with the cabbies has got to STOP!!! (HT to reader)
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As I say, beat a cabbie, get sent to Iraq. You won’t be missed.
And the fact that military “policemen” are often the violent criminals…
Maybe we need to go back to hiring Hessian mercenaries or something.
This is an old but interesting take on USFK and a journalists night out on the town with a PR guy. I would have assumed things would have changed/improved in the decade since this article was written, but that seems not to bve the case.
http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/us-army.htm
Apologies if everyones read it already.
GNC? Creatine? Roid-rage?
If Kimsoft was still alive, I would tell him that the black and white photos were way better than the artificially colored ones…I will miss Kimsoft’s excellent writings and photos.
Communal punishments tend to work. When I was in the Air Force, during boot camp we had a guy who refused to do anything, including getting up in the [early] morning. A sergeant had to kick his butt out of the bed, and while he went up and brought back the dude, we were running around the block, singing our unit song. At 5am. On an empty stomach. After a few days, that dude had 500 angry guys to contend with. Way more efficient than whatever punishment a sergeant could have inflicted on him…
1) The guy behind Kimsoft is dead!?
2) Three guys jumping on a taxi driver. How classy. It’s a shame that they are fueling the rabble-rousers with this. Once again, it’s the case of a few ruining for everybody else. Yeah, esprit the corps my…
Communal punishment was necessary to placate the Korean public. That’s what Koreans understand and so that’s what needed to be done to keep the peace. Although it got Koreans residing in the US to begin to think differently about collective guilt, the VTech massacre did nothing to change that mentality in Korea.
Necessary to placate the Korean public? I’m reminded of the scene in “Full Metal Jacket” (maybe not based in reality), where the drill sergeant punishes everyone because the fat recruit had a donut. Then later, everyone beat the hell out of the fat one.
Maybe that’s what you good soldiers whose representations are getting tarnished by the bad ones should do…just beat the shit out of these “military police” who can’t themselves seem to stop beating up civilians. Enforce order in your own house.
Learn to hold your drink! If you can’t drink than keep it to the base. Especially the males! I wouldn’t lockdown the females.
Did a female ever attack a cab driver?
“…Maybe that’s what you good soldiers…should do…just beat the shit out of these “military police” who can’t themselves seem to stop beating up civilians. Enforce order in your own house.”
Sounds like a plan — all it will take is a few good men! As long as they can be assured of getting Lt Caffey as their defense lawyer later….
Blanket Party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I get the sense that GIs don’t “live” in Korea in the same sense that many of us here do. Ergo, no fondness or connection with the country.