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Hazing MCO 1700.28A 1 February 2012
ALMAR 005/12
"Hazing is prohibited and will not be tolerated. No Marine or Service member attached to a Marine command, including Marine Detachments, may engage in hazing or consent to acts
of hazing being committed upon them.”
Hazing & Discrimination
Learning Objectives1. Definition of hazing
2. Video – Background on Hazing Practices
3. Hazing Practices
4. Reporting Hazing
Hazing & Discrimination Conduct by one military member to another, regardless of Service
or rank, that causes suffering or exposure to an activity which is cruel, abusive, humiliating, oppressive, demeaning, or harmful. Soliciting or coercing another to perpetrate any such activity is also considered hazing.
Includes but not limited to:
• Any form of initiation or congratulatory act that involves physically striking another to inflict pain.• Verbally berating another.• Encouraging another to excessively consume alcohol.• Encouraging another to engage in illegal, harmful, demeaning or dangerous acts. Soliciting or coercing another to engage in hazing. • Consent by the subject is not a defense.
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Does not include:
• Command-authorized or operational activities• Requisite training to prepare for such missions and operations• Administrative corrective measures• Extra Military Instruction• Athletic events• Command authorized physical training• Recruit depot incentive training• Similar activities authorized by the chain of command
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No Marine, Service member, commander or individual in supervisory position may engage, condone or ignore hazing practices.
Responsibility of every Marine to ensure hazing does not occur in any form at any level.
Hazing is a leadership and warfighting issue?Mutual respect and dignity for all Service members.Violations are punitive in nature.
SEE SOMETHIN’…SAY SOMETHIN’
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• Psychological Sit-Up
• Ordnance Kiss
• Beaner Bomb
• Sharks and Minnows
• Trust Me
• Beretta Bite
• Swirlies
EXAMPLES• Fashion Show
• Pinning on Chevrons
• Funneling
• Shellback
• Pink Bellies
• Tapings
• Flopping
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VIDEOS“A FEW BAD MEN”
“Hell Night”
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• Peer pressure• Intimidation• Ignorance• Need to belong, or be accepted:
Why do Marines submit to, or accept hazing?
Clubs, work groups, religious groups, family, gangs, etc
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Funneling
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Toilet dunk
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Garbage chute:“My supervisor was a shellback and loved to pick on me during the initiation”
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The King
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FashionShow
return
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Pinning on Chevrons
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E-tool qual
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Pink Bellies
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Taping
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Flopping
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Crucifixion
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Hazing starts out simply. Handshake, some sort of congratulatory act.
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Does not include: Mission or operational activities
Required training to prepare for mission Administrative corrective measures Extra Military Instruction (EMI) as defined in JAGINST 5800.7F, Para 0103 Command authorized physical training Incentive training authorized at Recruit Depots in accordance with recruit training SOP…
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Report it via the chain of command.
If your immediate superiors are involved: Request mast to your Commanding Officer or Commanding General Contact the IGMC Hotline
(703) 614-1348 DSN: 644-1348
ORGMB.IGMC.HOTLINE@usmc.mil
WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
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Through the policies of the Commandant of the Marine Corps, we:
• Set acceptable standards of conduct• Ensure traditions stay alive• Pass on customs and courtesies• Attitudes• Behaviors
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There is but one rite of passage in the Marine Corps, and that is the
Crucible established by our 31st Commandant, General Krulak.
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QUESTIONS???