By This is the first time I have seen this happen:
A 2nd Infantry Division soldier, who after missing formation claimed she was raped, was found guilty on two charges and sentenced to six months in prison at a Camp Casey court-martial Friday.
Pvt. Shavonte Hampton, 19, of the 302nd Brigade Support Battalion’s Company C, was convicted of filing a false official statement and failing to report to formation.
Military judge Lt. Col. Thomas Kulish also sentenced Hampton to a two-thirds forfeiture of pay for six months.
Hampton had consensual sex with another soldier at the Camp Casey Lodge on July 23 and failed to report to duty on time the next day, prosecutors said.
Because it wasn’t the first time she had missed formation, Hampton concocted an elaborate rape story that quickly proved unfounded after the story changed several times, prosecutors said.
Although Hampton did not receive a bad-conduct discharge, she could be subject to administrative separation from the Army, officials said. [Stars & Stripes]
I have to wonder why she wasn’t given a bad conduct discharge as well considering the damage that would have been done to her male companion’s life if he was convicted of rape? I feel that whatever punishment the soldier would receive for rape the false accuser should receive as well.
5:28 am on November 16th, 2008 1
About time the authorities started slamming the "False Alarm/False Accusation Wenches."
Now, if they will start going after the "Local & Imported Prostitutes" using this same ploy in any country that our US military is operating in.
2:29 pm on November 16th, 2008 2
Damn, based on the caption Shavonte’s got some big pale man hands.
2:30 pm on November 16th, 2008 3
^ And yes was sarcasm.
6:07 pm on November 16th, 2008 4
She should also have to register as a sex offender. He would have…
6:43 pm on November 16th, 2008 5
[...] can have huge ramifications for a person even when the charge is shown to be untrue. GI at ROK Drop writes- I have to wonder why she wasn’t given a bad conduct discharge as well considering the damage that [...]
11:43 am on November 17th, 2008 6
Saw this many times in my 20 yod. As an NCO, I always had another person present when I had to counsel a female. Or inspect a female's room. Not possible to treat them the same as a male Soldier. Males, generally, will not try to get you busted for rape ect.
9:51 am on December 12th, 2008 7
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10:28 am on February 24th, 2010 8
Wow. Okay. How many of you have NEVER made a mistake in your entire life? Well, I did. I made a terrible mistake. I don't think it's up to you to judge me based on the decisions that I made. I payed for that mistake, and as a matter of fact, I am still paying for that mistake because of people like you. No, he didn't rape me, but I felt that he was just as guilty as I was for what he DID do. You all are entitled to your opinions, but I want each and every one of you to know that I am not ashamed of the mistakes and bad decisions that I have made in my life. I'm human. This story also excludes very important details. Details such as black-male being involved that caused me to make the false claim. I was misguided. True enough, but the people I was misguided by are the same NCOs and CDRs that you see every day. I applaud each and every one of you for being that concerned to take the time out of your busy lives to comment on my mishaps. I hope you are equally concerned about the people in Haiti and the many homeless children that are roaming the streets as well. You guys have a blessed day.
11:37 am on February 24th, 2010 9
Was that supposed to be an apology? An excuse? A justification? You missed by a wide mark. I hope you didn't fire your weapons that wildly. Innocent people could have gotten hurt. No matter. You obviously have no ability to accept responsibility.
"No, he didn’t rape me, but I felt that he was just as guilty as I was for what he DID do."
"Details such as black-male being involved that caused me to make the false claim. I was misguided. True enough, but the people I was misguided by are the same NCOs and CDRs that you see every day."
Was that 'black-male' as in a black man, or 'blackmail' as in extortion? But I get it. It was other people's fault you did what you did.
I got money to bet you were drinking that night. Your were 19 years old. Under USFK policy, that would have been strike and probably affected your decision.
I got more money to bet your BAC was significantly over 0.10. Under 2ID policy issued over a year before your 'incident,' that should have been another strike. But I am sure in your mind all of that was the fault of others too.
Boo, hoo, hoo:( You've been punished enough? I don't know. But I think any women who has been the victim of an actual sexual assault and has gone through the wringer afterwards to see it though may want to pop you in the face it they ever met you.
11:49 am on February 24th, 2010 10
Sounds like 6 months of pay was clipped and you got booted from the Army. Not even a bad conduct discharge! Please tell us how you have "payed". I'm curious as to what punishment a false rape accuser gets. Please educate us.
Here's what he could have got: Assault with intent to commit murder or rape. Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for 20 years.
Comparison? Hardy. Sympathy? None.
12:15 pm on February 24th, 2010 11
Shavonte,
Thank you for your comments… but I must disagree with almost every point.
"Wow. Okay. How many of you have NEVER made a mistake in your entire life? Well, I did. I made a terrible mistake."
Many people make mistakes. It takes a real self-centered shrew to make a "mistake" that, for very little gain, is intended to potentially put human being in jail for the rest of their life.
A real mistake has much less evil intent than this action… and it ceases to be a "mistake" as the process drags on and on while the action is knowingly perpetuated.
"I don’t think it’s up to you to judge me based on the decisions that I made."
Absolutely wrong. Your "decision" affects many of the readers here.
It affects the men who have to live in fear of the powerful lies which can ruin their lives and careers… and it breeds an unnecessary distrust and hatred of women in general. It affects the military members who have to go to Saturday training and always must take ridiculous special considerations around women that trade readiness and efficiency for self-protection. It affects the leaders who helplessly watch actions such as this erode morale and sap cohesion while they are powerless to do anything about it due to political correctness. It affects the taxpayers who have to finance non-productive investigations, legal proceedings and punishment. It affects the rest of the soldiers who have to work harder to fill the gap left by the lying accuser and the innocent accuse… and for every dollar spent sorting out and resolving this needless mess, there is a piece of important equipment that can't get fixed or a necessary supply that must be done without by honest and hard-working soldiers who could potentially find it a matter of life or death. And it affects honest women who have been seriously wronged and can't get justice because your actions have shaded the thinking of everyone involved.
"I payed for that mistake, and as a matter of fact, I am still paying for that mistake because of people like you."
Fantastic. Spread the word. Tell everyone you meet that false claims of raape are unacceptable and have strong and undesirable consequences for the accuser.
Note to People Like You: Keep up the good work.
"No, he didn’t rape me, but I felt that he was just as guilty as I was for what he DID do."
Ah… "untrue but accurate". If you felt he was guilty of something for what he "DID", why not accuse him of that. In today's female-friendly, politically correct military, if what he "DID" could be twisted into something illegal, he would be charged for it in some way. If he wasn't, than your complaint falls into the category of Drama Queen rather than serious accusation.
"You all are entitled to your opinions, but I want each and every one of you to know that I am not ashamed of the mistakes and bad decisions that I have made in my life."
Here lies the problem. You did something monumentally shameful and downright crappy… yet you have no shame and fail to see the true crappiness… other than the way things turned out bad for you.
You do recognize it as a "mistake" but you seem as if the mistake is putting yourself in a situation to get caught up in your lies rather than the act itself… and you leave the impression that you would still falsely accuse someone of something serious if you felt they "DID" something… but would be more careful about mistakenly being caught at it.
You continue to be dangerous.
"I’m human. This story also excludes very important details. Details such as black-male being involved that caused me to make the false claim."
Because black males are always guilty? Please explain how a black male being involved caused you to make the false claim.
Hmmm… upon consideration, you might have meant blackmail. I'm sure I speak for everyone when I ask how you were blackmailed into making a false raape claim… and what happened to the blackmailer.
"I was misguided. True enough, but the people I was misguided by are the same NCOs and CDRs that you see every day."
Wait a minute? You were misguided? By leadership? Please explain. Once again, you leave the impression that you feel you did nothing really wrong except getting caught trying to punish someone for something they "DID" after leadership betrayed you by encouraging a false raape claim.
"I applaud each and every one of you for being that concerned to take the time out of your busy lives to comment on my mishaps. I hope you are equally concerned about the people in Haiti and the many homeless children that are roaming the streets as well."
People in Haiti and homeless children have very little affect on the lives of the majority of readers of a military-related blog. Your actions, and the combined actions of those like you, have a daily detrimental affect on a large percentage of readers.
You seem to neither recognize this or care about it.
Shavonte, as of now, based on public information and your posting, you seem as if you require further reflection on your situation.
You need to recognize that this was not just a mistaken action but an entire mistaken way of thinking. While you regret the action, or what happened to you after getting caught, you seem to still be holding onto the way of thinking.
If you feel I have interpreted the situation incorrectly, please feel free to leave clarifying information.
12:34 pm on February 24th, 2010 12
Very Good points LL, but you forgot that he would have also been a convicted sex offender which some have noted. Even if he got a short sentence he would never be truly free.
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At least he had the good sense to go to the Casey lodge and not a barracks room. People like Shavonte Hampton make soldiers reluctant to date other soldiers, much safer to date a civilian.
1:16 pm on February 24th, 2010 13
Very well put CH. I wonder why I never see commercials on AFN talking about reporting false information.I mean come on every 5 minutes you see a commercial for sexual assault or harassment, I am not trying to downplay the real victims out there but there ought to be some commercial regarding falsifying reports.
2:09 pm on February 24th, 2010 14
Bingo. This is the single biggest reason I always had a policy of NEVER dating another soldier. It was an unconditional rule I made for myself and encouraged all my junior male soldiers to follow. Now if only others would follow it the "queens for a year" and rape-accusers would die off.
11:25 am on February 25th, 2010 15
A timely article from the NY Post. This is closer to what false accusers should get. Along with a requirement to register as a sex offender for life.
Read this, this is much closer to what should have happened to Shavonte.
:
3 yrs. in prison for framing innocent man
By LAURA ITALIANO
Last Updated: 5:05 PM, February 25, 2010
Posted: 3:39 AM, February 24, 2010
A young mother who falsely cried rape, sending an innocent man to prison for nearly four years, will experience firsthand what he suffered — she'll spend one to three years behind bars for perjury.
"I wish her the best of luck," said William McCaffrey last night of Biurny Peguero Gonzalez.
"Jail isn't easy."
McCaffrey, 33, of The Bronx, was locked up after Gonzalez accused him of raping her at knifepoint on a Bronx street back in 2005.
It was a lie she repeated to doctors, cops, prosecutors, a grand jury and the jury that convicted McCaffrey.
"What happened in this case is one of the worst things that can possibly happen in our criminal-justice system," Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles Solomon said as he pronounced sentence.
McCaffrey said he has some sympathy for Gonzalez and hopes she "doesn't go through what I went though.
"I was an accused rapist in prison," he said, adding that in prison, "rape is the worst crime possible."
All is clearly not forgiven.
A person who would "lie and paint somebody as a rapist is worse than a real rapist or a real murderer," McCaffrey said
He also blamed "the arresting officers, the prosecution." Everyone, he said, "wanted to believe the lie, the ADA [assistant district attorney] first and foremost."
Judge Solomon said, "It's hard to imagine why anyone could have done this."
It turned out Gonzalez robbed McCaffrey of four years of his life for the most trivial of reasons.
She'd been hanging out with a group of girlfriends when she accepted an invitation to get into his car.
After she returned, her pals were furious that she'd ditched them — so she made up the rape story to gain their sympathy.
She will be eligible for parole in a year — after serving a one-quarter of the time her victim was imprisoned.
Gonzalez was taken away after making a tearful apology to McCaffrey, who was not in court.
She also begged for mercy on behalf of her two sons, ages 3 months and 7 years.
"To Mr. McCaffrey, I am aware that nothing I do or say to him can bring back the years he spent in jail," she said. "I want him to know I will carry this guilt for the rest of my life."
Gonzalez, 27, had recanted her story last year after new DNA evidence proved she'd been lying and a priest to whom she'd confessed urged her to come clean.
Gonzalez had repeatedly insisted she was "110 percent" sure McCaffrey had raped her after they met in Inwood, in upper Manhattan, and she drunkenly accepted a ride.
"It was a complete and utter lie," Assistant DA Evan Krutoy told Judge Solomon.
The outraged prosecutor asked that she be sentenced to two to six years "so that there's a chance that she will serve what he served."
Krutoy conceded that Gonzalez — with a previously clean record — looked like a good candidate for probation.
But ultimately, she needed to serve time, Krutoy said, "because of the extent of harm that she caused . . . She came into court and she lied."
Her lie — blurted out as her girlfriends were slapping her around — took on a life of its own, fueled in part by McCaffrey's long rap sheet of violent arrests.
Gonzalez could have pulled the plug on the prosecution at any time, but instead she watched McCaffrey get sent up the river for a rape he never committed.
Her lawyer, Paul Callan, conceded of the perjury, "It is not defensible."
He insisted that Gonzalez suffered horrible abandonment and sexual abuse as a young teen, and has now had "a spiritual awakening."
"She is not the same person as the one who committed this crime at age 22," Callan said.
The lawyer said that at their first meeting, she'd told him, "I don't care what happens to me. You have to get Mr. McCaffrey out of jail."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/justice_…
11:46 am on February 25th, 2010 16
Agreed
11:50 am on February 25th, 2010 17
I had the same rules when dealing with Females in uniform. One must protect ones self from those who use sex and the Military "Leadership" to their own ends.
1:30 pm on February 25th, 2010 18
NYou said you are mad for what he did do. Did you pass out, wake up, and say "Darn, tequila makes my bum hurt"?
2:37 pm on February 25th, 2010 19
This is one messed up case. She should have at least served the same amount of time he did and pay restitution to him.
5:05 pm on February 25th, 2010 20
Don't ya mean, One messed up "Female"?
Every woman in uniform should be majorly Pissed at her for messing with THEIR reputation.
8:29 pm on February 25th, 2010 21
You are a tramp and a liar. Go whinge elsewhere.
And make sure you NEVER tell anyone you were ever a Soldier. Too many good people have worn that uniform and died in it.
Turd.
12:09 am on February 26th, 2010 22
ACU welfare…
Are you a low-life female with no skills or education? Are you so worthless that you wouldn't be able to keep a job at mcdonalds for a week? Do you want a paycheck on the 1st and 15th for doing little more than sweeping a hallway, going to "appointments" and flirting with the highest ranking NCO you can find so that anything you don't meet the standard with is swept under the rug?
JOIN THE ARMY!!
You can get it on with any guy you want! If your boyfriend finds out and gets mad, do not worry! You can just yell "rape"! Who cares if you ruin someones career, as long as your selfish piece of sh*t needs are taken care of everything is good right? Heck, you may just want to make it easy like so many others do and be a cutsie lesbian! Then the guys will flirt but won't get too pushy, you are a lesbian afterall. You could also stand at "parade pretty" in front of th 1SG with that smile on your face and giggle like a retard… afterall, favoritism with him gets you out of ALL things Army. PT? Just say you have "female problems", you wont have to go! STT? Just schedule an appointment! ALL the NCOs "have your back". On the average week, you may only have to actually be "at work" for 2-3 days a week.
That ought to be the recruiting message for females in the Army from what I have seen.
4:58 am on February 26th, 2010 23
I'll bet Shavonte ain't white.
7:56 am on February 26th, 2010 24
He didn't rape you. You accused him of rape. You LIED about a crime and almost ruined someone's life. You don't see anything wrong with that?
9:26 am on February 26th, 2010 25
>I hope you are equally concerned about the people in Haiti and the many homeless children that are roaming the streets as well. You guys have a blessed day.<
And what a sanctimonious twat you are.
11:16 am on February 26th, 2010 26
my thoughts exactly. I don't need lessons on compassion and morality from some self righteous slut
4:29 am on April 18th, 2010 27
I have a "Similar" yet much less serious situation
I have a "Grand Niece", 25 years old who just reported to basic training at Ft. Jackson
I sent her a letter to receptions saying "Good luck Annie, show them what you re made of" and next thing I know some MP calls me at my home and said "Annie stated she is in fear of physical attack from you, we are obtaining "restraining" order
All well and fine, except I'm a public school teacher and that accusation will screw my career
I know everyone will say "there must be more than I am saying," there is not. We, meaning her family, have known Annie has a Sociopath's personality for some time now and could not figure how she got past screening for military, but she did, she did make the accusation and I need to know how to deal with it
any suggestions?
6:52 am on April 18th, 2010 28
This will likely not help you much but, if I were you I would never, never, NEVER, have any (ANY) contact with her. Period. The family either.
As a Teacher, they are a danger to you. The "Grand Niece", well I would see my Lawyer and see what I (you) could do about some legal protection and never have ANY sort of contact.
But that is just me. After 20 years in the Army, I have a health fear of females and what one word from a crazy one can do to a man.
I had to serve with a bunch of the crazy ones thru the years. Mostly after the mid 90s.
8:11 am on April 18th, 2010 29
I had a female Soldier in my last company at FT Benning try to pull some BS like this. After disappearing for about two days, she appears and tells us this story about how her hometown boyfriend kidnapped her. She had this elaborate story how he forced her at gunpoint to leave the barracks Sunday evening, then proceeded to make her buy dinner at a local Applebees, rent a room on post in transient quarters, order her to drive back to Alabama the next morning where she again rented a hotel room. After that she managed to escape and drive back to the unit. All transactions were with her credit card.
She told this story in a conference room to me (I was Company XO), the Company Commander and First Sergeant. Top asks her to get some verification from the credit card people about the purchases. Wonder of wonders, she lost her card in the escape! Couldn't even remember the name of the issuer!!
After excusing her, Top and I went and made some phone calls. Sure enough, nothing she told us was true. We called her back in, called her bluff and she confessed. She just didn't feel like coming to work on Monday and Tuesday!
9:00 am on April 18th, 2010 30
Thanks for the responses
I have no intention of any further contact with exception of cease harassment order and that of course is due process
Just curious if anyone else has had this type of experience, dumbest thing is it was her 1st Sgt who called me, she is very smooth, cute and convincing. I would like to have though an E 8 would have more brains than this, but:
Seems as though the "Top" way over stepped his bounds calling a civilian at his home and threatening him with "prosecution" and or, doesnt this violate the posse comitatus act of DOD troops having ANY interference with the populace?
9:56 am on April 18th, 2010 31
1SG called you? hmmm. I think that may be a problem. Why don't you turn the tables and file a restraining order on her and the 1SG and maybe even sue her for defamation? I know it would be a pain in the ass but it put it in the books so people can see there are two sides here.
10:39 am on April 18th, 2010 32
10:41 am on April 18th, 2010 33
Crap…I didn't insert the blockquote text in the right spot in this post. The text in the inner box is my response to Kevin's post.
11:21 am on April 18th, 2010 34
The 1SG and her are probably lovers at this point.
On a serious note: If there is some sort of restraining order or court issue, you must show up and fight it. If you show up then she must present proof of your harmful intentions. If you don't show up, anything she says goes in the record.
12:37 pm on April 18th, 2010 35
The relationship you refer to may be very true, unfortunately she has made it this far in life by doing just that, wiggling her ass and kissing up to men who have authority
I intend to show, an again unfortunately for her I will question her ability to form a rational opinion knowing her history of drug use, obtaining drugs for others, chronic migraines, chronic gastritis, a claim permanent injury from car accident (Still pending) none of which was disclosed on her pre induction physical
I'm more curious in the 1st Sgt actions in "harassing" me in my home
This is the letter she based her allegation of physical threat upon, names redacted of course
I would really like to know ho her Sgt acted on the basis of this letter?
9-Apr-10
PV2 “Annie”
**d AG Bn (Rcpt)
Annie:
My message to you is simple: Take everything you hear, everything you appear to believe what goes on back home and think only “good things” and you will have the truth
Anything said or done is for your benefit and support only, not to harm you in any way.
You need not worry about any “interference,” think support and hope, not disruption and despair
Best wishes
1:47 pm on April 18th, 2010 36
I am outraged that this B didn't receive a BCD. As others have stated she should have the same prison time as the falsely accused soldier got. She is a disgrace to the uniform and it puts women who actually have been sexually assaulted or harassed into a bad light. When I was stationed at WBAMC at Ft Bliss, TX the NCOIC (he was a SFC/E-7) was a little too friendly with a female SPC who worked there. People tried to warn him, but he didn't listen, this female was a ding-dong. Anyway sure enough she accused him of propositioning her. He didn't get in any trouble but I'm sure that he was put on 'the list'. He NCOER was not stellar. It came out later that she previously had done the same thing to a NCO at Ft Dix, NJ. As was said before whenever I counseled a female soldier or inspected a female soldiers room or whatever I made sure that I was not alone with her. If there are any active duty NCO'S or commissioned officer reading this post, please TAKE HEED!
3:03 pm on April 18th, 2010 37
Again the reason I refused to mess with female soldiers while I was in the service. I later altered that rule to include almost all American chicks, their just too crazy for my tastes.
10:00 pm on April 18th, 2010 38
Most American Males can be divided into two groups.
Those that feel protective of the females AND those that are trying to "get some".
Both these two groups are treated in the same manner by these females that are abit off balance. They know how to use males and draw no distinction, and feel no remorse at ending a career.
Active duty: as stated by others, do not trust your females in uniform. Never be alone with them if it can be avoided. They are amazing in their ability to bring on the tears.
I never got "burned" by one. But there were a few that tried.
Watch your back.
6:18 pm on May 31st, 2011 39
I have no sympathy for women in uniform who falsely accuse their male counterparts of rape, regardless of rank. the Army needs to place as much emphasis on the consequences of falsely reporting rape or sexual harrassment of any kind. I have serious problems with being fed horseshit and General Casey needs to open his eyes and truly see the big picture regarding this matter.
6:29 pm on May 31st, 2011 40
lmao lmao is that really the shavonte hampton? hey usinkorea check her ip address!
6:31 pm on May 31st, 2011 41
Anyways, isn’t rape pretty common in u.s. military? This kind of news doesn’t even suprise me.
6:40 pm on May 31st, 2011 42
Not nearly as common as male-on-male rape in the ROK Army.
7:01 pm on May 31st, 2011 43
Well, Orbit, to entertain you if a female has consumed alcohol at all and you have consensual sex with her, it is in fact, NOT consensual sex and you have just raped her. If a woman says no, even once, even during sex and you proceed – this is rape.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-15/robert-gates-sued-over-us-militarys-rape-epidemic/#
This one-sided account based on the victim will help confirm your bias about the military being full of rapists.
Oh yeah, please don’t consult any of the active and former active military here about what actually happens, because they are NOT reporters AND CLEARLY don’t know what they are talking about when they tell you this is a bunch of crap.
Anyway, ACU’s and potential law suits turn me off for some reason.
7:12 pm on May 31st, 2011 44
As a genius reporter I listened to only the alledged victims and their DEFENSE attorneys with the ACLU. I like to pretend I support the troops but really I think they are a bunch of idiot cannon fodder for corporations because going to college made me smart, even though I have no military experience. I am not a gullible tool of people who pretend to be on the side of the working class and the environment that drive around BMWs and pay lip service to these things while doing nothing real to actually improve the conditions of these people. I also think the AFPAK war is just like Vietnam and couldn’t give a shit about millions of dead cambodians or possible nuclear war between India and Pakistan because it doesn’t fit in with my misguided world view. Did I mention that I think people that have to make split second decisions to shoot or not shoot people after going into doors are brainless grunts and should go to jail whether or not the enemy was armed and shooting at them or innocent?
Well, that’s my rant for the night.
7:23 pm on May 31st, 2011 45
Sorry, Prosecution…
9:36 pm on May 31st, 2011 46
#42 Any source to prove your statement? Quit crying already.
12:59 am on June 1st, 2011 47
Orbit,
“#42 Any source to prove your statement?”
Enjoy your sweet, sweet barracks rape.
http://couchtripper.com/rapedbysoldiers/?p=407
2:15 am on June 1st, 2011 48
I thought the Navy guys got a pass on that?
(If not, what was that whole Village People thing about???)
3:07 am on June 1st, 2011 49
#48
If the Korean Navy regularly went on 3 month deployments at sea, you would probably see the numbers you are alluding to.
3:14 am on June 1st, 2011 50
As sometimes happens, I feel it… I feel a song coming on… It’s pushing it’s head out… *PLOP* Phew! There it is!
Where can you find pleasure
Search the world for treasure
Learn science technology
Where can you begin to make your dreams all come true
On the land or on the sea
Where can you learn to fly
Play in sports and skin dive
Study oceanography
Sign up for the big band
Or sit in the grandstand
When your team and others meet
In the navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the navy
Come on now, people, make a stand
In the navy, in the navy
Can’t you see we need a hand
In the navy
Come on, protect the motherland
In the navy
Come on and join your fellow man
In the navy
Come on people, and make a stand
In the navy, in the navy, in the navy (in the navy)
They want you, they want you
They want you as a new recruit
If you like adventure
Don’t you wait to enter
The recruiting office fast
Don’t you hesitate
There is no need to wait
They’re signing up new seamen fast
Maybe you are too young
To join up today
Bout don’t you worry ’bout a thing
For I’m sure there will be
Always a good navy
Protecting the land and sea
In the navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the navy
Come on now, people, make a stand
In the navy, in the navy
Can’t you see we need a hand
In the navy
Come on, protect the motherland
In the navy
Come on and join your fellow man
In the navy
Come on people, and make a stand
In the navy, in the navy, in the navy (in the navy)
They want you, they want you
They want you as a new recruit
Who me?
They want you, they want you
They want you as a new recruit
But, but but I’m afraid of water.
Hey, hey look
Man, I get seasick even watchin’ it on TV!
They want you, they want you in the navy
Oh my goodness.
What am I gonna do in a submarine?
They want you, they want you in the navy
4:24 am on June 1st, 2011 51
Here is a well argued and reasonable response to calling Korea a rapist country:
http://blog.daum.net/_blog/BlogTypeView.do?blogid=08kZc&articleno=8571582&_bloghome_menu=recenttext#ajax_history_home
4:46 am on June 1st, 2011 52
I never realized the lyrics pointed out the Navy could teach me to skin dive. That is not a common skill that just anybody can pick up.
That should be publicized more. It could really help recruiting.
…especially in a post-DADT military where some new recruits might be a bit confused on which end of the snorkle to be on… so to speak.
7:27 am on June 1st, 2011 53
The politics of the past few years have caused the gays to put their own spin on terms we were led to google. First it was “tea bag.” After that, I was lured to google “Santorum.” Then, during the Eric Massa scandal, I learned they had their own way of “snorkeling.”
A warning to anyone who hadn’t googled or looked them up in the urban dictionary yet — NSFW.