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Originally Posted by squeeeb
i know how to quote, i don't know how to quote from one thread and use it in another thread.
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OH, LOL.. I went into that thread, started a reply, got done with the reply, realized it didnt fit the topic at hand, so I copy/pasted the whole thing onto a new thread. hence the quote from another thread... sorry I wasnt more specific. I always assume the lowest common denominator... KISS (keep it simple stupid) has worked well in the past.
Forseti-6
nice to see an ossiffer on the forum here. The hazing thread I have been responding to, but I see that most people here do not agree with the idea of it, they see it simply as demeaning and debasing rather than character and team building. I personally always viewed those who could not hack the hazing as weak, and not someone I would want backing me up when the proverbial shit hit the fan.
On the flipside, there is a point where it goes too far. ANY one on one harassment I always viewed as over the line. I once had a SGT who lost the tool bag from the BLE for my hummer. He tried to blame me for it. We were having a command inspection in the motor pool, and the tool bag was there the day before when we rehearsed the layout. He put the equipment away, while I was called away to have the CI done on the FDC equipment. The next day, the tool bag was gone, and he locked me up in the motor pool in front of the entire company and started screaming at me at the top of his lungs. He told me that he could have my rank and take me back down to a private ( I was an E4 at the time) right then, he would rip my rank right off my collar. I looked at him and told him if he wanted it so bad, he could take it. I didnt say it loud, only he heard me, but for that comment, and his humiliation, he put me through a 2 hour smokeathon in the platoon hallway of the barracks screaming at me to get him to swing at him the whole time. (on a side note, he was a pansy, and he couldnt break me, finally someone called the MPs and they showed up. That SGT became a PFC a few days later and I never said a word to him again)
My point, sometimes even the higher ranks can go wrong as well. Was that hazing.. I dont think so, I think that was more along the lines of a personal vendetta against someone. Hazing is a group sport.