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Royal Marines' "cockfight"
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Dennis Lewis
Nov 28, 2005, 6:53:05 PM11/28/05
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[Richard Norton-Taylor and Steven Morris report in today's Guardian:]
A video of an initiation ceremony showing young Royal Marines forced
to fight naked ... was condemned yesterday by embarrassed defence
officials and senior officers.
... According to the News of the World, the video was filmed by a
marine who watched the ceremony in a field at 42 Commando's base at
Bickleigh Barracks in Devon. It shows two marines at the centre of a
large group of men. All are naked save for one man in a surgeon's
scrubs and one wearing a schoolgirl uniform. ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,11816,1652362,00.html>
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