Remember the horrible puppy-tossing incident?

Well, now the marines are being punished for it.

From http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/11/marine.puppy/index.html

"The U.S. Marine Corps has disciplined two Marines over a videotape that showed a Marine throwing a puppy over a cliff, the military said Wednesday.

Officials did not specify the role that each man played in the incident, which received international attention after a video of it appeared on YouTube.com March 3.

Lance Cpl. David Motari is being processed for removal for his role, the Marine Corps said, and Sgt. Crismarvin Banez Encarnacion also has been punished.

The video shows someone throwing a black-and-white puppy off a rocky cliff. The dog makes a yelping sound as it flies through the air.

"That's mean. That was mean," someone off-camera is heard saying.

YouTube removed the video about a day after it was posted, "due to terms of use violation," the site said.

The Marines were quick to condemn the video when it surfaced, calling it "shocking and deplorable."

Marine officials said the disciplinary action followed a thorough investigation, according to a statement that the Marine Corps Base Hawaii released Wednesday.
"The actions seen in the Internet video are contrary to the high standards we expect of every Marine and will not be tolerated," the statement said."

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Craig has a new rank, come and salute or end up cleaning the officer's latrine!

Arsenault was first checked out on this equipment in November 'o7, and has contributed steadily since then, except for a breeding break:

http://blog.videosift.com/arsenault185/My-Brand-New-Daughter-and-the-reason-I-was-away

So if you want a taste of some of his new promote power, get on his good side now and work some stuff out of his Pq:

http://arsenault185.videosift.com/member/arsenault185/pqueued

And, being a wise sifter he's made sure his Queue is full, too...

http://arsenault185.videosift.com/member/arsenault185/queued

For a little more info, check his entry on MG's recent Sift Post: >> HERE:
In which he claims to be the "better half" of MarineGunrock. I'm sure that's up for debate.

Arsenault also has has a good comments to votes ratio, He's a hard wokin' Sifter who has probably voted for many of your posts.

So Thanks be to Arsenault! Keep up the good work!

From The Washington Post
Army Spc. Monica Brown was awarded the Silver Star for treating wounded soldiers under fire after their convoy was attacked in Afghanistan, and is only the second woman to receive the award since World War II. Despite her heroics, she was pulled from combat missions because of gender.
"We weren't supposed to take her out" on missions "but we had to because there was no other medic," said Lt. Martin Robbins, a platoon leader with Charlie Troop, 4th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, whose men Brown saved. "By regulations you're not supposed to," he said, but Brown "was one of the guys, mixing it up, clearing rooms, doing everything that anybody else was doing…."
In addition to the article, here’s a CBS interview with Brown and Katie Couric.

DARPA is at it again with bugs that become bugs!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/06/scirobot106.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox

Sifters! AH-tennnnn-TION!

One of our soldiers had just been *promoted to the rank of gold! Arsenault185, with his massively dull and unoriginal screen name, has been a troubled sifter, what with no Whoopie pies in Korea and having to post videos during the U.S. night.
So why don't you all go over to his queue and help his wannabe Marine ass out.

Dismissed!

Copied from Nationaljournal.com/thegate:

Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died yesterday at age 92. He lived in Columbus, Ohio, where he ran an international air-taxi service after leaving the military as a brigadier general in 1966.

Paul Tibbets in the Enola Gay The Columbus Dispatch reports that Tibbets was under hospice care after being ill with heart disease. He told the Dispatch in 2005 that he wanted to be cremated and have his ashes scattered over the English Channel, although his family said final arrangements are not set.

He was 30 years old on Aug. 6, 1945, and an experienced World War II pilot who had gotten his start dropping leaflets for a candy company out of the backseat of a biplane. The Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortress bomber, was named after his mother.

Tibbets, who gathered some media attention over the years, said repeatedly that he didn't regret the decision to drop the bomb.

"I'm not proud that I killed 80,000 people, but I'm proud I was able to start with nothing, plan it and have it work as perfectly as it did," he said in a 1975 interview. "You've got to take stock and assess the situation at that time. We were at war, and you use anything at your disposal.... I sleep clearly every night."

After the initial drop that killed nearly 80,000, Hiroshima continued to mount casualties from the radiation's aftereffects: 130,000 out of a population of 350,000 were dead by the end of the year. Japan surrendered nine days later, after the U.S. also dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

"If Dante had been with us on the plane, he would have been terrified," Tibbets said later. "The city we had seen so clearly in the sunlight a few minutes before was now an ugly smudge. It had completely disappeared under this awful blanket of smoke and fire."