btw, this is what the "gas chamber" is <http://usmilitary.about.com/library/weekly/aa043000c.htm>
>It is made clear to you at the beginning of training that if an instructor
>feels 'threatened' by a recruit he or she may respond with extreme force
>and violence in 'self-defense'.
>the verbal abuse,
>the Sergeant would slap him in the genitals and exclaim, "Bangkok!"
>of learning how to kill 'Luke the gook', 'Jackie the Iraqi', and 'Joe rag
>head' with all means available and reciting cadences like 'Napalm sticks
>to kids' and 'We're gonna rape, kill, pillage and burn' while we ran on
>the streets of the base, I began to really question what the hell I was
>doing in the Marine Corps. Why were we de-humanizing these people? Does
>racism make the job of killing them easier? That certainly couldn't be
>what this was all about. Could it?
>One of the young Corporals in charge of our class liked to pace up and
>down the ranks and indiscriminately swat an unsuspecting Marine in the
>crotch. Non commissioned officers seem to have an affinity for this in the
>Marine Corps.
>Death threats
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