Fleet Marine Life #128 – Curfew
In Okinawa, I’ve always wondered why grown men have to follow a curfew. Okinawa isn’t exactly a dangerous place after midnight. It isn’t like it’s ridden with rapists and criminals who are going to come out of the bushes and harm us. I know cause they’re all Marines!
It’s even more ironic how the grown men, who are treated like children, are the men and women entrusted to guard our nation and handle billions of dollars worth of taxpayer money.
But, of course, the greatest of ideas that spawn from our wonderful, militaristic bureaucracy comes not from necessity but from reaction. I wonder how many alcohol related incidents it took to set off the higher ups to implement this child-like punishment? How many cars had to be flipped? How many houses broken into? How many out-of-town bar fights?
I’ve seen a few Marines go out of town and come back a few minutes late. I’m talking about good Marines that don’t cause any trouble. Who knows why they’re late? Maybe they lost track of time. Maybe they were helping some other fellow Marine get into a taxi. Whatever the case is, these Marines were late by 5-10 minutes and checked in. No one was harmed.
Instead of just letting these Marines go, no mercy is given by the higher ups. I’ve seen Marines get NJP’d for being a minute late! This curfew is childish and only seeks to belittle and punish those who haven’t done anything truly wrong in the first place.
Drinking too much alcohol and flipping private property over since 1775.
Good sir… I must confess my love for you… No homo. But I love your comics outside of the drawings it’s better than terminal lance… I’m not going to go into all the ways I’ve been fucked in the last 3 and a half years but let’s just say they sent me to okitraz for two years after being in Pendleton for 2 and a half… You should do a comic about one of my personal pet peeves; how marines can never have nice things cause they always break it… Some time out of sheer stupidity other times out of some I’ll founded want to be thug and vandalize shit… Idk
Except for the execution, I could totally see this happening.
bahahahaha..i just love your comics about okitraz..yea ive seen a few guys get njp’d for staying out past midnight..i told a buddy back home about one of my friends here getting njp’d for being out passed midnight and he kept asking me ” well what else did he do? ” he couldnt comprehend that the only thing my buddy did wrong was stay out past midnight..he was so confused lol..dude you need one on pro/cons..gotta mention my sexy 4.0/4.1 lol..and thats with no negative counselings..i couldnt imagine what it would be if i actually did something wrong lmao
Argh! I have to do one about pros and cons! Give me a day or two…
now that you mention it, I think I’ll hit up CoCo’s this weekend.
Level 10: SPICY!!! If you’re a little bitch
Ahh Coco’s… one of the few, if not the only, things I truly miss about that island
It’s ridiculous, but I blame all the dumbfucks that came before us for ruining it for everyone else. If I was out past curfew, I stayed out until the JSG’s were posted at the gates. Those guys don’t give a fuck!