Why do some folks here on YA get so bent out of shape when I attempt to expose the hypocrisy of the USMC?

Question

I have noticed that there are some folks on here, including a couple of squids, on here that get PO'd whenever I attempt to expose the Marine Corps for its hypocrisy. Specifically, I have learned within the last three months of the Marine Corps leadership's alleged cover up of the water contamination aboard Camp Lejeune that happened FOR NO LESS THAN THREE DECADES (being from the late 1950s to the mid 1980s) WITH THEIR FOREKNOWLEDGE that the water was already contaminated during this period of time. OK, so here is where the outright hypocrisy of the Marine Corps comes into play here. I was in the Marine Corps from 2000 thru 2005 and, while a young Marine attending my MOS schools, was continually threatened with receiving an NJP, article 15, captain's mast, etc for the SLIGHTEST of infractions. This was especially true while I was at my MOS school at Naval Air Station Pensacola, FL (yeah I know that I was a POG). But seriously, how does Marine Corps leadership think that it is OK to burn young Marines for petty things such as missing a stupid haircut or being late for one of their bazillion formations when, at the SAME TIME, they think that they themselves can DO NO WRONG as per the cover up with regards to Camp Lejeune's contaminated water. Now, I DON'T hate the military, but as a former Marine myself, I have a BIG PROBLEM with Marine Corps leadership preaching "honor, courage, commitment" to young NON-NCO's when the Marine Corps itself has clearly flat out LIED about its own shortcomings. So, where is the honor in lying to Marines, sailors, base civilians, and dependents for a period of 30 years?

Answer 1

Actually the water problem at Camp Lejeune was before three decades ago as you stated. The Marine Corps sent letters to marines who had served there in the time period. I got one of those letters. They provided a website where you could become more informed and ask for printed information. I requested the information and got it. The problem was in a very small part of Camp Lejeune and didn't affect 95% of the marines who served there.



While you were at NAS Pensacola you were on a naval station going to a naval school. Your barracks were commanded by marines, that's about it. When you went to class it was much more likely that you had a Navy instructor. Don't try to pull this crap, I went to a Navy 'A' school.



Yes, you can be in big trouble for a haircut, that isn't petty in the Marines Corps. I got in trouble for it myself. You need to learn to live by the regulations.



You and I both know that you either never served in the Corps or you have some problem with them of your own making.

Answer 2

So you have read a few articles in the JD news, and you are pissed off because you got in trouble for not following regulations? Do I have that straight? So why did you not continue in the Marine Corps? In 2005 the story about the water wasn't really big yet. So you just couldn't hack it because you didn't want to follow rules? If you are saying you are a "former" Marine, and that you were threatened with "captains mast" I would highly doubt you were a Marine at all, and rather, just someone pissed off about the contamination situation. Not that it is right what happened. But still, your story has flaws.

Answer 3

This response is for JD.



You are absolutely mistaken in your assertion that the water contamination was limited to a small portion of the base (Tarawa Terrace family housing). In fact the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) estimates that as many as 1 million Marines, Sailors, their families and civilian employees were exposed to the contaminated water aboard the base. Until recently, the USMC focused the public's attention towards an off base dry cleaner which contaminated Tarawa Terrace. What the USMC failed to tell the public, the media and Congress was that the DoN had potable water regulations in place since 1963 which would have prevented most of the human exposures aboard the base if they had been followed. They also failed to inform everyone that they were first warned 1980 that the base's water was contaminated. No action was taken until November 1984. The last contaminated well was closed in 1987.



The Hadnot Point water system, which served most of the base's population, was the worst contaminated system aboard the base.



Last year we discovered that the base's fuel farm, located on Hadnot Point, was another source of potable water contamination and that our exposures to benzene were overlooked. Then last January we discovered that the USMC lost an estimated 1.1 million gallons of fuel from the fuel farm. All this fuel was in the ground water used for potable water at Camp Lejeune and located within 1,200 feet of potable well HP 602 for Hadnot Point.



Please see our website www.tftptf.com for more information. We also have an annotated timeline referenced with the actual USMC documents. You may want to print out the time line on our website and cross reference it with the "official" USMC timeline. It should make you quite nauseated to see what they have been feeding you all this time.

Answer 4

Maybe you need to brush up on your knowledge on the case and the Marine Corps involvement.



The lawsuit alleges that the United States Government, through agents within the Department of Defense, knowingly exposed hundreds of thousands of Marines, sailors, their family members, and civilian employees to highly contaminated drinking water on the base at Camp Jejune, while at the same time actively disseminating disinformation to those exposed in an effort to minimize the significance of the exposure.

Answer 5

i think of it extremely is wholesome to be indignant. Have some style of emotional reaction to issues that are outrageous. To be dissatisfied whilst a answer that's shown is brushed aside. If people do no longer care approximately some thing they wont difficulty to respond to. i'm getting extra factors by utilising offering many little knee jerk short responses extremely than actual basic solutions yet i'm getting extra delight from analyzing and answering questions.

Answer 6

Do you believe anyone cares what you think? I hope not because you'd be sadly mistaken.

Answer 7

Do you have any links for this drivel?