| I do understand this somewhat... a military group ALWAYS takes care of its own. Meaning that if one of their members screw up, it's up to fellow members to issue the punishment. That makes sense.
However there are times when they get away scott free.
In Korea we had that incident where two school girls were crushed under what I believe was an APC. It happened at night.
The Koreans didn't help this situation by EXAGERRATING as usual what happened... calling the incident a murder incident etc. And the usual anti-American rhetoric flowed like a white water rapid.
But the biggest mistake of all in the end was that not one American was found guilty of this manslaughter incident and everyone got away scott free. The only message this sent to Koreans was "to these guys, we're not even people." Sent Korean-American relations back to the stone age.
Now this isn't an incident of humiliation, or the bending of a rule here or there. Here, two people DIED as a result of someone's mistake.
So even though this keeping it in the family thing makes sense, you have to do it RIGHT.
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