He was waterboarded at VMI. His tormentors still got into the military.
The former Virginia Military Institute cadet was scrolling Facebook when he saw a trio of photos that made him seethe.
The images showed a graduating VMI student being sworn in as a Marine officer on a December day in 2019 at the school’s historic Memorial Hall.
The former cadet knew the freshly commissioned Marine second lieutenant in a way he’d never forget. Just across the street from Memorial Hall, that same student had helped waterboard him and another VMI freshman inside the barracks as part of an unauthorized initiation ritual, according to two lawsuits, a VMI police report and the transcript of a VMI disciplinary hearing.
One VMI official testified that the January 2018 incident, though brief, was one of the worst episodes of abuse against a freshman he could remember at the nation’s oldest state-supported military college, where hazing is prohibited by state law and VMI policy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/30/vmi-waterboarding-hazing-rat-line/
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There is no excuse for VMI (or The Citadel, or any other state "military college"
to exist. I resent my taxes going to this institution when ROTC is available at other state-run schools.
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