Hazing
MCO 1700.28A
1 February 2012
ALMAR 005/12
"Hazing is prohibited and will not be tolerated. No Marine
or Service member attached to a Marine command, including
Marine Detachments, may engage in hazing or consent to acts
of hazing being committed upon them.”
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Learning Objectives
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Definition of hazing
Video – Background on Hazing Practices
Hazing Practices
Reporting Hazing
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 Conduct by one military member to another, regardless of Service
or rank, that causes suffering or exposure to an activity which is
cruel, abusive, humiliating, oppressive, demeaning, or harmful.
Soliciting or coercing another to perpetrate any such activity is also
considered hazing.
 Includes but not limited to:
• Any form of initiation or congratulatory act that involves physically
striking another to inflict pain.
• Verbally berating another.
• Encouraging another to excessively consume alcohol.
• Encouraging another to engage in illegal, harmful, demeaning or
dangerous acts. Soliciting or coercing another to engage in hazing.
• Consent by the subject is not a defense.
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 Does not include:
• Command-authorized or operational activities
• Requisite training to prepare for such missions and operations
• Administrative corrective measures
• Extra Military Instruction
• Athletic events
• Command authorized physical training
• Recruit depot incentive training
• Similar activities authorized by the chain of command
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 No Marine, Service member, commander or individual in
supervisory position may engage, condone or ignore hazing
practices.
Responsibility of every Marine to ensure hazing does not occur in
any form at any level.
Hazing is a leadership and warfighting issue?
Mutual respect and dignity for all Service members.
Violations are punitive in nature.
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SEE SOMETHIN’…SAY SOMETHIN’
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EXAMPLES
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Fashion Show
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Psychological Sit-Up
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Pinning on Chevrons
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Ordnance Kiss
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Funneling
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Beaner Bomb
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Shellback
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Sharks and Minnows
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Pink Bellies
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Trust Me
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Tapings
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Beretta Bite
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Flopping
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Swirlies
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VIDEOS
“A FEW BAD MEN”
“Hell Night”
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Why do Marines submit to, or accept hazing?
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Peer pressure
Intimidation
Ignorance
Need to belong, or be accepted:
Clubs, work groups, religious groups, family, gangs, etc
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Funneling
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Toilet dunk
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Garbage chute:
“My supervisor was
a shellback and loved
to pick on me during
the initiation”
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The King
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Fashion
Show
return
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Pinning on
Chevrons
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E-tool qual
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Pink Bellies
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Taping
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Flopping
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Crucifixion
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Hazing starts
out simply.
Handshake,
some sort of
congratulatory
act.
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Does not include:
 Mission or operational activities
 Required training to prepare for mission
 Administrative corrective measures
 Extra Military Instruction (EMI) as defined in
JAGINST 5800.7F, Para 0103
 Command authorized physical training
 Incentive training authorized at Recruit Depots
in accordance with recruit training SOP…
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WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
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Report it via the chain of command.
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If your immediate superiors are involved:
 Request mast to your Commanding Officer
or Commanding General
 Contact the IGMC Hotline
(703) 614-1348
DSN: 644-1348
ORGMB.IGMC.HOTLINE@usmc.mil
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Through the policies of the Commandant of the
Marine Corps, we:
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Set acceptable standards of conduct
Ensure traditions stay alive
Pass on customs and courtesies
Attitudes
Behaviors
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There is but one rite of passage in the
Marine Corps, and that is the
Crucible established by our 31st
Commandant, General Krulak.
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QUESTIONS???