My favorite part of the below story is how one of the officers was accused of not completing their Anti-Terrorism Level-1 training. Wearing a PT belt might be more effective at stopping the below stupidity than the AT Level-1 training:
Then Lt. Col. Roger T. McDuffie in a photo released by the U.S. Marines.
Three married U.S. Marine officers have found themselves under investigation for a night in February that went off the rails in Bogotá, involving allegations they went drinking with some local women, were slipped illicit drugs, robbed of U.S. property and landed in a local hospital emergency room.
The men may have fallen prey to what is known as “burundanga poisoning,” according to a report on the investigation conducted by the Marine Corps Forces, South, a Southern Command subsidiary, and obtained by the Miami Herald.
The report recommended that Marine Col. Roger T. McDuffie, a Harrier pilot who serves as the chief of operations at the unit known as MARFORSOUTH; Maj. Andrew L. Mueller, described as a theater security cooperation planner; and Maj. Mauricio Saenz, exercise planner, face “appropriate administrative or judicial proceedings.” [Miami Herald]
You can read the rest at the link, but these three ended up bringing the prostitutes back to their rooms at the hotel, while walking by other Marines at 4:30 in the morning mustering to get on a shuttle bus to the airport. After getting to their rooms they were then robbed of their government phones and laptops among other personal possessions by the prostitutes. To make this story even more incredible is that one of the officers actually used his government travel card to take out a cash advance to pay two of the prostitutes.
CH, you mean those poor, under-nourished womyn forced to sell their bodies and whatever they can steal from their clients?
Smokes
7 years ago
Wow what a huge f-up; fraudulent use of a GCC and loss of equipment… As it’s 2 Majors and a Colonel I expect the full extent of theater justice to be applied and to see these guys back in circulation within a few weeks. Semper BLehh!
“Would the military suggest a woman is to blame because she went to the wrong bar, wore too short of skirt, or had too many drinks?”
…and then brought the men back to their rooms?
They slipped ’em a “Mark Lewis”.
https://www.rokdrop.net/2017/02/seoul-court-gives-no-jail-time-to-british-dj-mark-lewis-who-smuggled-date-rape-drug-into-korea/#comments
Well, now I understand why they told us not to fraternize with officers…
This is a clear case of victim-blaming.
CH, you mean those poor, under-nourished womyn forced to sell their bodies and whatever they can steal from their clients?
Wow what a huge f-up; fraudulent use of a GCC and loss of equipment… As it’s 2 Majors and a Colonel I expect the full extent of theater justice to be applied and to see these guys back in circulation within a few weeks. Semper BLehh!
They need a curfew and prostitution and human trafficking training.
These guys are the victims.
Any hint that they brought any of this on themselves is victim-blaming.
They were not only too drunk to give consent, but they were drugged.
Would the military suggest a woman is to blame for her rape because she went to the wrong bar, wore too short of skirt, or had too many drinks?
I think not.
“Would the military suggest a woman is to blame because she went to the wrong bar, wore too short of skirt, or had too many drinks?”
…and then brought the men back to their rooms?
Nope.
AND reflective belts for all field officers. /jk