WASHINGTON – A Muslim Marine said he was called a terrorist and ordered into an industrial clothes dryer multiple times by a drill instructor who then turned it on, burning him, according to an article published by The Washington Post.
The treatment of recruits in the Marine Corps have been extinsevely investigated following the suicide of 20-year-old Michigan resident Raheel Siddiqui, who was called a terrorist by drill instructors on numerous occasions.
But Siddiqui doesn’t appear to be the only Muslim Marine mistreated by drill instructors. Another Muslim recruit is claiming he was called a terrorist and forced into a clothes dryer.
“You’re going to kill us all the first chance you get aren’t you, terrorist?” the drill instructor thundered at the recruit, the new Marine later alleged, according to the documents that have not been released publicly but were reviewed by The Washington Post. “What are your plans? Aren’t you a terrorist?”
Last week, service officials announced that 20 members of Parris Island’s staff could face criminal charges or administrative discipline following the conclusion of three investigations into various abuse allegations.
But the documents and an interview with a Marine official with knowledge of the investigations suggest dozens more Parris Island Marines could be implicated in the scandal.
Ethnic and gay slurs were also used regularly, and drill instructors ordered repeated, unauthorized physical training that sometimes injured recruits.
The drill instructors also sometimes were drunk on the job, bringing Fireball whiskey into work on at least one occasion, recruits told investigators.
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