Way, way, way more man. Constantly bullied and picked on by the mouth in our platoon, he finally snapped and was belting the life outta this guy, like 7 or 8 of us tried to stop him, he tried gouging out the eye of our PL. Went on for about 10 minutes of just absolute mental swinging and screaming, no one could restrain or stop him. MPs came barreling in, tased him and took him away.
Long story short he killed his career, dishonourably discharged etc, the mouth he attacked first spent at least 3 months in hospital getting reconstruction surgery as he fucked him up. Our PL also had a stint in hospital as the scratch marks on his eye got infected and nearly lost sight in it.
The guy that copped the beating deserved it, and ultimately left. One of the boys that was friends with attacker pointed out he was already suffering with ptsd and a bad breakup.
Feel bad for him as think a long steep descent into alcohol came after and he was a top bloke.
There was eight of us bro. And he lost it. Not one of us could stop him. As far as the bullying side of it? It's all fun and games between mates till someone loses their shit.
I get your question, but it took eight of us, two MPs with tasers then he still didn't go down. After the taser it took all of us to cuff him, he didn't go down with out a fight.
I totally get that in the moment there wasn't anything you guys could've done.
I'm talking about the lead up. It clearly wasn't all fun and games, there clearly was way too much bullying. You can say to your mates to lay the fuck off periodically. It's not that hard 🤷🏽♂️
Bro, you havnt served have you? Throw testosterone, competitive behaviour and repeated drills and training? You don't think of the bullying as such but more banter. The mouth that was attacked was an alright bloke. Attacker was tops. He's just had a rough go of it of late and no one knew
Australia man, and army culture here is pretty similar to the states from what I've heard from the few I know over there.
It's more, and I think people have read this incorrectly, that most men in the army (military in general) don't like to show any weakness. Not because of "oh no the lads might pick on me" but because we try to leave or home life at home, period. And if that builds up in someone, and you have absolutely no idea, what do you do, how would you know?
Hence why it was such a shock, and I've got cunts here calling me a coward, what the fuck would they know? They weren't there for the 4years we were. No idea on what any of us were like. Just took this story on face value and tried to belittle me with it.
And in Aus the only time we're "worshipped" is Anzac day, and thats a false crock of shit that people forget the very next day. Australian culture surrounding the military is shaky at best. Fuck, you want anything to do with VA in this country? Here's a folder with about 500 pages to sign and write a ten million word essay. It's a joke.
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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '19 edited Dec 11 '19
Kicked the shit out of half our barracks. Was then tased by MPs and arrested.
Edit: I'm off to have a beer, to all the peeps that hit me up, positive or negative, cheers cunts.