Sexual violence in the military is not unique to the eleven U.S. Marine bases on Okinawa. It also occurs in the military generally among American military personnel.
Some persons have enlisted in the Marines to escape civil crimes. I recall one high school girl who was murdered in Alaska by two fellows who enlisted in the Marines subsequently yet were tracked down and apprehended by the state police.
In just two years- 2015 to 2017, 65 Marines at Okinawa bases were jailed at courts-martial for sexual offenses. The warrior mentality may not be at the top of the moral food chain, although original sin corrupts everyone from the fellatio of a U.S. President by a student intern to the Marine at Okinawa convicted of bestiality.
War such as Marines are thrown in to does not occupationally attract the best and brightest kind of people. Dull, savage and loyal killers aren’t usually the kinder gentler souls writing calligraphy although there are some martial arts movies to that effect.
The morality of the Japanese occupation Army in the Philippines was not renowned for excellence. Even so, one would like impeccable warriors that are better than Lancelot at moral values; warrior-priests that would not step upon an ant unless ordered, who would then execute the order without trouble.
U.S. Marine Corps Sexual Violence on Okinawa
The nominal criterion is that there is a certain percentage of individuals that will perpetrate crimes. There may be specific training remedies and punishment configurations that would reduce the number of incidents. Yet the United States has an ineffective prison convict corrections philosophy domestically. It may not be reasonable to expect that the military would have a better system.
Wikipedia has an article on the 1995 case where three marines abducted and raped a 12 year old girl from Okinawa…
“The trial concluded in March 1996. Prosecutors had asked for the maximum sentences for the men, 10 years each. The judge sentenced Gill and Harp to seven years' imprisonment; Ledet received six and a half years. Their families also paid "reparation money" to the family of the victim, a common practice in Japan.
The three men served prison terms in Japanese prisons and were released in 2003 and then given other than honorable discharge from the military. After release, Rodrico Harp decried prison conditions in Japan and said that the electronics assembly prison labor he was forced to do amounted to slave labor.
Ledet, who had claimed he did not rape the girl, died in 2006 in an apparent murder–suicide in the United States. He was found in the third-floor apartment of Lauren Cooper, a junior Kennesaw State University student and acquaintance whom he had apparently sexually assaulted and then murdered, by strangulation. He then took his own life by using a knife to slice open his veins at the elbows.” -1995 Okinawa rape incident - Wikipedia
The nominal criterion is that there is a certain percentage of individuals that will perpetrate crimes. There may be specific training remedies and punishment configurations that would reduce the number of incidents. Yet the United States has an ineffective prison convict corrections philosophy domestically. It may not be reasonable to expect that the military would have a better system.
Wikipedia has an article on the 1995 case where three marines abducted and raped a 12 year old girl from Okinawa…
“The trial concluded in March 1996. Prosecutors had asked for the maximum sentences for the men, 10 years each. The judge sentenced Gill and Harp to seven years' imprisonment; Ledet received six and a half years. Their families also paid "reparation money" to the family of the victim, a common practice in Japan.
The three men served prison terms in Japanese prisons and were released in 2003 and then given other than honorable discharge from the military. After release, Rodrico Harp decried prison conditions in Japan and said that the electronics assembly prison labor he was forced to do amounted to slave labor.
Ledet, who had claimed he did not rape the girl, died in 2006 in an apparent murder–suicide in the United States. He was found in the third-floor apartment of Lauren Cooper, a junior Kennesaw State University student and acquaintance whom he had apparently sexually assaulted and then murdered, by strangulation. He then took his own life by using a knife to slice open his veins at the elbows.” -1995 Okinawa rape incident - Wikipedia
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