February 07, 2005
Mudwrestling: Crime Against Humanity
The fact that a couple of female MPs engaged in some mud-wrestling at an Army Detention Center in Iraq isn't too shocking. Young people like to party hard, and cops party even harder.
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As long as the women—and the men cheering them on—were off-duty, and provided none of the prisoners witnessed the event, I'm not so sure this was an awful, awful thing.
Kids are at the mercy of their hormones sometimes, and need to blow off steam. This was a way to do so relatively harmlessly.
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I'm not wild about this sort of thing going on in a combat zone — it's a straight, if long, line between this and the orgies that were part of the mess at Abu Ghraib — but bottom line: they're grown-ups. They're out there standing between us and evil. Who are we to scold them for getting wild off duty?
I will confess that I didn't realize thongs were GI-issue underwear these days, but I'm awfully out of touch about these things.
Posted by: Jeff Harrell at February 07, 2005 01:15 PM (UAuME)
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The only thing I can imagine being a problem is if some of the participants or spectators are superiors of others involved. Just like you wouldnt have either a female boss or employee behave like this at a company picnic, this shouldnt happen in the military. It likely strains or completely breaks the chain of responsibility and/or command.
Posted by: David C. at February 07, 2005 04:45 PM (Smzsb)
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This all seems ridiculous to me. How much manpower (read $) have they spent on this inconsequential BS?
And, I'm not sure the demotion of this one woman was entirely fair. I mean, surely there were guys involved? I don't know too many women who like to just spontaneously mud wrestle in the absence of getting egged on by the guys. Well, except in certain blue movies I guess.
Posted by: k at February 07, 2005 05:15 PM (6krEN)
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I think the thing that bothers me the most is that now the news had gotten ahold of the story there won't be any "soldiers gone wild" video hitting the streets soon. Darn the bad luck.
The next thing you know people will be demoted for "smiling" on duty because it might offend someone.
Posted by: Jeremy at February 09, 2005 12:06 PM (farnf)
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