While the vast majority of the men and women serving this country are fully serious about their position, there are many of a new breed that are clearly not up to the challenge. The DOD changed the rules to allow people in by lowering the standard in order to fill recruitment needs for the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Gangs in the military are a problem as well. This story is not just one of adolescent boys entering into the man's world of tough Marines. It goes much deeper than that. Is this a sign of the attitude causing an increase in military rapes? This study addresses girls as willing but we really need to wonder if this idea about sex is carried over into deployment and beyond. Where is the leadership on any of this? What are the Marines doing about this? Has discipline been forgotten? What does this say about the rest of the Marines when something like this comes out? Is it an isolated case of a group of young Marines or is this a problem across all bases? Next, what the hell is wrong with the female Marines? Don't they understand what they are doing?
U.S. Marine Corps an Orgy Palace of Stoned, Drunk, Horny Teens, New UCSF Study Suggests
Mon Jan 05, 2009 at 12:59:00 PM
By Matt Smith
While doomsayers bemoan America's ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, researchers at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center may have turned up a brilliant silver lining.
Thanks to desperate recruiting methods required to staff those wars, the U.S. Marines may be turning military service into a male sexual fantasy land, where recruits are paid actual money to cohabitate with drunk, stoned, horny teenage girls.
UCSF scientists tested and surveyed 2,157 female U.S. Marine recruits -- out of 2,288 possible respondents -- with an average age of 19. Researchers found that the young women were more than twice as likely as non-military young women to be infected with venereal diseases. And the recruits were prone to engage in behaviors likely to get them sick again.
The sexually-precocious female recruits "perceived that sex is more likely and enjoyable under the influence of alcohol, and were heavy alcohol and drug users before recruit training entry," according to a November 2008 UCSF study titled "Relationships among Sociodemographic Markers, Behavioral Risk, and sexually transmitted infections in U.S. Female Marine Corps Recruits."
