1. 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.”

2. Learning Objectives Definition of hazing
Video – Background on Hazing Practices
Hazing Practices
Reporting Hazing

3. 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.

4. 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

5. Hazing is a leadership and warfighting issue?
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.
SEE SOMETHIN’…SAY SOMETHIN’

6. EXAMPLES Fashion Show Psychological Sit-Up Pinning on Chevrons
Funneling
Shellback
Pink Bellies
Tapings
Flopping
Psychological Sit-Up
Ordnance Kiss
Beaner Bomb
Sharks and Minnows
Trust Me
Beretta Bite
Swirlies

7. VIDEOS
“A FEW BAD MEN”
“Hell Night”

8. Why do Marines submit to, or accept hazing?
Peer pressure
Intimidation
Ignorance
Need to belong, or be accepted:
Clubs, work groups, religious groups, family, gangs, etc

9. Funneling

10. Toilet dunk

11. Garbage chute:
“My supervisor was a shellback and loved to pick on me during the initiation”

12. The King

13. Fashion
Show
return

14. Pinning on Chevrons

15. E-tool qual

16. Pink Bellies

17. Taping

18. Flopping

19. Crucifixion

20. Hazing starts out simply. Handshake, some sort of congratulatory act.

21. Does not include: Mission or operational activities
Required training to prepare for mission
Administrative corrective measures
Extra Military Instruction (EMI) as defined in
JAGINST F, Para 0103
Command authorized physical training
Incentive training authorized at Recruit Depots
in accordance with recruit training SOP…

22. Report it via the chain of command.
WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
Report it via the chain of command.
If your immediate superiors are involved:
Request mast to your Commanding Officer
or Commanding General
Contact the IGMC Hotline (703) DSN:

23. Through the policies of the Commandant of the
Marine Corps, we:
Set acceptable standards of conduct
Ensure traditions stay alive
Pass on customs and courtesies
Attitudes
Behaviors

24. There is but one rite of passage in the Marine Corps, and that is the Crucible established by our 31st Commandant, General Krulak.

25. QUESTIONS???