Up To 20,000 Sailors & Civilians Eligible for Re-Education [Update]
I’ve seen some things in my years in the Navy that I thought were a little over the top, but this takes the prize, hands down:
The US Navy will conduct background checks on its 20,000 sailors and civilians in Japan after a series of crimes including the murder of a taxi driver, a local city office said….
In the survey starting next month, the first of its kind for US forces in Japan, the military will ask all 20,000 naval service members and civilian personnel about their lifestyles and attitudes.
If the military finds those with problematic attitudes or violent tendencies, it would give them intensive training and counselling, according to a document that the US Navy gave to the city.
First of all, now that the cat’s out of the bag, just how many of these Sailors and civilians do you think will honestly fill out the survey knowing they could subject themselves to reprogramming? And what will this survey look like? Just imagine…
Q: You wife has just baked your favorite kind of cookies, but she says you must wait until after dinner to have one. Do you:
A. Heed her warning and wait.
B. Wait until she’s not looking and steal one.
C. Talk your impressionable young child into stealing one for you.
D. Assert your kingship over the household and bash her head in with a hammer.
Hmmm…that’s a tough one.
I think perhaps it’s time the Navy take a close look at the leadership in Yokosuka and how they’ve been managing the “liberty incident” problem. You know, I don’t hear many stories of Sailors in Norfolk or Gaeta or Bahrain or even Sasebo killing for cab fare. Could it be the local policies in Yoko are driving them over the edge?
[Update] Here’s the story with the Navy’s spin.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 08:53
This is rich. What if they ask if they are homosexuals? Then we’ve got a lawsuit?!? What about the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’? If we are prevented from asking certain embarrassing questions that will disqualify someone, why are not just as prevented to subject ourselves to some weirdos pschoanalysis? Oh brother!
I do care what happens, and I do care what they say. EITHER way, it’s still GO NAVY! on the football field.
May 2nd, 2008 at 09:00
To All Enemies of the USA
[Pic] ‘Nuf said.