Colonel Paul D. Cucinotta; Recruit Training Regiment commander canned
Bobo and Marine_7002 send us the link to the news that Colonel Paul D. Cucinotta the Recruit Training Regiment commander at Parris Island, SC was fired by his commander, Major General James W. Lukeman, commanding general of Training and Education Command at Quantico, Virginia. Lukeman says that he “lost confidence” in Cucinotta’s ability to command Marine Corps boot camp because of the death of Raheel Siddiqui, 20, a Pakistani-American Marine recruit.
Siddiqui arrived at the depot March 7, and fell 40 feet to his death after running out of a squad bay and jumping over a stairwell railing, family members have said. He had just been revived after fainting during a military drill. A lawyer representing the Siddiqui family, Nabih Ayad, told the Detroit Free Press that an instructor “smacked” Siddiqui to revive him. He had threatened to commit suicide early in recruit training, but was returned to training after committing to becoming a Marine, family members said.
The article says that the investigation is continuing, but I guess the Congressmen involved in the case needed a victim sooner rather than later and Cucinotta was available.
Category: Marine Corps
For fuck’s sake, the commander gets canned because some nutjob kills himself?
How is that a lack of leadership? I’m quite sure nutjob went to see someone in the Psych Ward before they let him continue training. If he fainted, or whatever and they were trying to revive him, a little slap on the face would seem an effective way to bring someone back into consciousness.
There is no more personal responsibility…this guy gets canned because some dipshit’s decision to take a swan dive down a stairwell…how about we lay the responsibility where it belongs: A) with the jumper B) With the parents for raising a pussy
>There is no more personal responsibility..
I agree. It is sad, and this is the direction the whole military is going.
Yup. And that IMO is how we end up with mandatory fun time, like SHARP, TARP, or base-wide alcohol bans. I feel for the Col’s career, though. Probably was honorable up until this point and then it just takes one dipshit to tank it.
Wow–“Responsibility can’t be delegated,” but still wow.
So, the psych ward didn’t kick the guy out. I bet next time they do.
One of the guys in my Basic platoon at Fort Jackson in the early ’90s got sent to the psychiatric ward very early in the cycle. When I brought him some of his stuff, he told me it was because he was an alcoholic; it occurs to me to wonder if he was being truthful.
The CO of the first command I was assigned to as a boot brown bar told me that the fucked up thing about command was that you may wake up to a beautiful morning, happy to be alive, not realizing that some E-1 just destroyed your career overnight.
So the Marine Corps loses yet another outstanding senior leader for no good reason that I can decipher. I’m not sure how Colonel Cucinotta could have stopped the suicidal actions of that recruit when that recruit decided to act by jumping over the stairwell railing. Nor do I see how his relief accomplishes anything other than to serve him up as a sacrifice in order to satisfy the PC-motivated whims of the politicians involved. FYI, Colonel Cucinotta was clearly a front-runner in the Marine Corps O-6 ranks; you’re not given command of the Recruit Training Regiment at Parris Island unless you’re a proven leader of the highest caliber. And for our Army brethren out there, please note that from 2005 to 2008, Colonel Cucinotta served as the Marine exchange officer to the 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Benning, Ga. During his time with the Rangers, he completed multiple deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. Here’s Colonel Cucinotta’s biography if you’re interested in learning more about this officer: http://www.mcrdpi.marines.mil/Leaders/LeadersView/tabid/18265/Article/517541/col-paul-d-cucinotta.aspx ‘Col. Paul D. Cucinotta was born in Lakewood, N.J. He attended Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., and upon graduation was commissioned a Marine second lieutenant on May 9, 1992. Cucinotta graduated from The Basic School in Quantico, Va., in 1992. He then attended the U.S. Army Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Okla., graduating as an honor student. His first assignment was with Battery C, 1st Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. During this three-year tour, he held the billets of forward observer, fire direction officer, executive officer and battalion assistant training officer, and he completed two unit deployments to Okinawa, Japan. In 1996, Cucinotta was selected to attend the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., where he studied financial management, graduating with distinction in 1997. Subsequently, he was assigned to the Programs and Resources Department, Headquarters Marine Corps, where he served as a program and budget analyst. In 2000, Cucinotta returned to the operating forces at Camp Lejeune, N.C. He reported to 2d Marine Division, and during a four-year tour, he served as commanding officer for Battery F, 2nd Battalion,… Read more »
It is not enough to determine that a problem occurred, the finger has to be pointed at SOMEONE and I’ll bet the general was making damn sure it wasn’t at himself. Hopefully the good colonel will land a good civilian job ASAP and laugh all the way to the bank. With 24 years in, he should retire with a pretty decent income.
I can’t imagine that with a name like Raheel Siddiqui and being a Muslim, that this fellow had a good time in his 11-day career. But who did? Everybody catches shit that soon after joining a service. Unless things have changed considerably since my BCT days, I recall being treated like shit, being told I wasn’t shit, and always being in the shit, one way or another. Never once did I consider running away or doing away with myself. It’s the deal. You go in one way and come out another. If you can’t handle some harsh words and an occasional whack in training, well, you know the rest.
In my basic we had a Muslim. I remember during chow Still Sergeant saw him eating on prison ribs and reminded Nadeem that he was Muslim and to grab something else if he liked.
I guess integration plays a part. I guess for every perpetual victim Muslim you get more who are just wanting to do more.
He needs to request mast to the Commandant and make a big fucking stink on this one. This officer’s CO is a fucking idiot.
My guess is the Commandant was well aware of the decision to can his ass. I agree he should make some noise about all this, his career is over because of it. Not much they can do to him at this point.
Withe the draw down of personnel going on I doubt the guy has a prayer in hell.
Semper Fi to Colonel Cucinotta, I would have been proud to serve with him.
Semper Flaccid to Major General Lukeman, you sir are a paper hanging son of a bitch.
All we can hope is the next POTUS makes Gen Mattis sec of defense. He is about the only one that will purge our Corps of the paper pushing gutless wonders.
Major General James W. Lukeman I have sent you a bag of dicks. Enjoy slobbering all over them, they should go well up that candy ass of yours.
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May the Google Gods serve you well.
“All we can hope is the next POTUS makes Gen Mattis sec of defense. He is about the only one that will purge our Corps of the paper pushing gutless wonders.”
Not just the Corps. It seems to me that a serious house cleaning of both the Flag Officer and Senior Enlisted ranks in all branches is needed to cleanse our military of all the boot-lickers and yes-men that have risen to the top like turds in a punch bowl with Obama as CinC.
Agreed,
Did I mention that Major General Lukeman is a pussy?
Ahhh, the good ole days when it took a dozen dead Paki’s to end a Colonels career.
Dave I think I missed the part where you mentioned that Major General James W. Lukeman is a giant pussy and a total fuckstick…perhaps you could enlighten me again?
You’re supposed to google it…
Dave, my own view of the sequence of events goes something like this:
The Siddiqui family freaked out when the kid killed himself and went to the lawyer, Nabih Ayad, to complain. Ayad isn’t just any lawyer, he’s also chairman of the Arab-American Civil Rights League. Ayad then jacked up Debbie Dingell.
Dingell is a freshman congresswoman who succeeded in 2015 to a suburban-Detroit seat her husband had held for 60 years. She’s pretty much a proto Washington wife, and apparatchik. On April 4, she sent the following letter to Marine Corps Commandant Rober Neller with a demand he respond in two weeks:
https://debbiedingell.house.gov/sites/debbiedingell.house.gov/files/documents/Raheel%20Siddiqui%20Letter%20FINAL%204.4.16.pdf
Yesterday, she got her response back:
https://debbiedingell.house.gov/sites/debbiedingell.house.gov/files/documents/160606_USMC%20RESPONSE_SIDDIQUI.pdf
Embrace the suck…
Thanks for those links. Sounds like the Honorable Ms Dingle-berry was told to STFU and wait for the investigation to be completed.
Arab-American Civil Rights? There is no such thing. Only American Civil Rights. They apply to all Americans.
Nothing special about an American that wraps a sheet on his head.
Everyone is special these days. The civil rights leadership seems to be run by The Klan With a Tan (BLM) these days.
Dipshit Dingell is a member of Vital Voices Global Partnership, a group that works with women leaders in the areas of economic empowerment, women’s political participation, and human rights.
Ya, I can see where her concern for this Muslim family comes from. Seems Islam has no problem with women in charge of something as long as they get paid by it.
Phuk em all.
Her letter is nothing less than a crock of shit from some arrogant asswipe politician
who will spend a life duping a gullible public into believing she is ‘entitled” to be a member of Congress.
I mean REALLY, now folks, look at point number three in her letter which reads: “Was there any indication of his (Lt. Col. Kissoon) not being sensitive enough to the needs of the recruit?”
Are you shittin” me????? Sensitive enough my ass!! These are Marines in the making…not hairdressers or flower arrangers. Lady, get the phuk out of here!!!!! You are too stupid to even inquire about this matter with any level of intelligence. And this is the kind of shithead garbage people elect to run the gub. and destroy lives. Go figure.
WAtch it, Jarhead.
Her island might tip over if you throw facts at her.
Glad I am out.
Ditto.
The entirety of the DoD, civilian and military, is fucked. Only the VA is worse.
Criminal behavior at the highest level everywhere you look.
So much like the gorilla story but with different results.
Gee – the Colonel should have installed higher stair rails…
We had an idiot who decided to hide in the dumpster to escape PISC. They found his dumb ass at the landfill with the rest of the trash.
The horrors of Parris Island have been used to criticize Marine training for many decades.
They put locks on the dumpsters after that incident. I distinctly remember a particular DI saying to me, “Hardin, what can be locked out of a dumpster can be locked in. Remember this Hardin…I have the key”
Reminds me of a story.
A young sgt was being interviewed for DI school. This was during the psychological screening phase.
The interviewer asks the question: “How many recruits can fit into a dumpster?”. The young sgt looks the interviewer in the eye and asks “whole or cut up?”.
Young Sgt goes on to become Series Leader of the Year.
Oh, THAT is a gigglesnort of the First Order.
Still ROFLMFAO. . ..
Ah yes, the dreaded “loss of confidence”. If he was relieved because he did something wrong, then at least he’d have a chance to refute it; he could present evidence that he didn’t do what he was accused of doing, or that he had a damn good reason for doing what he did. But if he’s relieved based on someone else’s state of mind, that’s going to be tough to refute. Especially if that person’s state of mind is “someone’s head is going to roll, and it’s going to be someone below my level.”
How come he’s only got 4 kids? I’d hit him.
Okay, enough funnies. After 24 years, with this kind of crap rolling down from on high, I’d say he should just take his retirement and go do something else, like run a hunting club or maybe a bike shop. Brew beer. Take people on birding hikes.
But what do I know?
I guess that Major General Lukeman is another one of those officers that has the “zero defect” disease that is prevalent in the Military, especially among the senior officers and SNCOs.
I hope that Colonel Cucinotta is able to find employment elsewhere after he retires from the Corps… sounds like a good guy to have in just about any business.
We could use Colonel Cucinotta in the Stolen Valor community.
We are still looking for someone to head up the Gullible Phuks Division.
We might even expand and start a Candy Ass Commander Division.
He would be a great guy to expose candidates submitted to either one.
We need someone that can write a Blog of Shame on people like Major General James W. Lukeman.
Does anyone know if first sgt. katrina moerk is up for promotion? A pussy like Lukeman could use a hand.
“Does anyone know if first sgt. katrina moerk is up for promotion? A pussy like Lukeman could use a hand.”
Now THAT brings up mental images that need mind bleach.. . . .
I’m wondering if Major General Lukeman is Lt Gen Anthony Lukeman’s son?
Tony was a good guy, so it looks like James didn’t learn from his dad
I was a drill instructor at MCRD San Diego. In two years, I never personally saw a recruit suicide ideate and come back to training. They went to see the shrink, and went home. This turd ideated, and was talked back into training. It never bothered me, because I never saw a recruit worth a damn ideate. Only the turds. No doubt in my mind that’s why the Colonel was relieved. I would bet there is a civilian contract psychologist at PI getting ready to lose a license about now. The sad part is, this turd will now get buried in blues with full undeserved honors, and his family will win the lottery.
Can financial compensation for the “bereaved” family be far behind? /sarc
Nope. They’ll get the SGLI lottery and death benefits, the dead kid will receive full honors (Completely unearned), and that should be about it. The Corps will consider it money well spent not to poison a town or area for recruiting forever. I always hated it. Cheapens the honor for those that deserve it, to me.
He will also get promoted one grade.
I’m with you on this as far as the nail in the coffin being trhe kid being returned to training after he made a suicidal gesture/ Ideation.
My last tour at the depot the commanders and DIs had to roll the dice.
Anytime you sent a kid to the Wizard for an SI they always dug around and found a reason to discharge them.
The thing is it got to the point where recruits gt the word that an SI was a ticket home, so they would say the magic words.
Of course Drops looked bad so the DIs had to play amatuer psychiatrist and figure out which kids just needed a kick in the ass and who was a weak little bitch.
IF a SDI made the call he was weak and submitted a Depot Incident Report then the kid was as good as gone.
I used to talk to my Hats and every cycle they said that they had at least 5 kids they could have gotten rid of but they took a chance on.
I’m guessing the Colonel is being hammered because he didnt heavy barrel the wizards into discharging every kid who SIed.
It only takes one
Exactly. And like me, I bet you never saw a kid who was not a piece of shit SI.
One of the funniest experiences I ever had at MCRD.
I was walking through the barracks and came across a little sack of shit sitting in the head ( Latrine for you Army times, Restroom for the Air Force and Recreational Area for Lars).
He had little tears rolling down his face and had his razor ( the entire thing, not just the blade) making little scratches on his wrists. He looked up and saw me and made this little wimpering sound and turned his wrists out so I could see the little scratch marks.
Of course I used this as an excuse to kick the shit out of his arm and knock the razor out of his hand.
I then proceeded to snatch him up and grab him by the neck and search his pockets for other items he could hurt himself with.
We had his ass tagged and bagged and in routing within an hour.
Beyond the SGLI and death gratuity, it’s doubtful, unless the Feres doctrine is overturned.
I spent a decade doing recruit psych evals at Parris Island. I did not send every suicidal ideation home. That’s what a psych evaluation is all about. Most were just pathetic home sick kids who needed to man up and most did. I sent home the ones I thought might just do it, wouldn’t make it through training, or would be a liability to their fellow Marines in the future in combat. It cost 15K just to get a recruit through his first day of reception and the Marine Corps was hot on retention. I doubt the psychologist, be they Navy or civilian, will lose their job if they did their job right. Every recruit that gets sent back to training makes a safety contract not to harm self or others. There is no way a professional can say for sure whether someone is or is not going to commit suicide. I commend you for having one of the toughest jobs on earth, a Marine Drill Instructor, especially today when just swearing at a recruit can cost your career.
“Lt. Col. Chad Hoare, Recruit Training Regiment’s executive officer, will serve as acting commander”
It was a conspiracy, they already had a hoare ready to take his job.
At LTC, a well-paid Hoare.
He had threatened to commit suicide early in recruit training, but was returned to training after committing to becoming a Marine, family members said.
Why?
Are the Marines so hard up for troopers they need a fuckstick with a mental condition to be reintegrated?
Once he made the initial claim why wasn’t he dropped in medical until they could discharge his sorry ass for being a complete non-hacker?
We had a guy make that comment at Ft Dix in the 70s…dumb bastard popped out the second floor window and landed on the dumpster cover breaking his leg….they sent him home with a med discharge while he was still in the cast…
Once they break down upstairs there’s no benefit in keeping a psych non-hacker.
Agreed. See my above statement. Not one recruit I saw as two years as a hat that ideated was worth a damn. I had no problem watching them leave. I have no doubt the Col was relieved because this piece of shyte returned to training. When I was a hat in the 90’s it was constantly reinforced that the Corps spent 10k per kid to put them on the footprints. No doubt this had an impact. Perhaps there was a command policy to push the turds to give it one more chance. A kid that breaks that quick is fundamentally weak. Recruit training is not all that tough. If he was sniveling there, what would he have done in a FOB in the Stan where other Marines’ lives were in his hands.
People don’t get it, they never will. Getting through PISC or any school that follows is only the start. I was recently reminded about an incident. A young Cpl and a salty Sgt of mine were drinking in the barracks NCO section. Nothing abnormal about that. So salty dog decided to tackle the young hard charger while he was on the way to the head. Why? Well, because he could. After they rolled around in the sweat and blood for a while they took a look at the results that were achieved. Young Cpl had made the mistake of punching Salty in the teeth. They decided the Cpl might need medical assistance to stop the bleeding. Salty Sgt drives the young Cpl to sick bay. The Corpsman on duty at 0100 looked at the wound and treated the injury by saying, “You two are drunk, go bleed some place else”. They returned to the barracks to bleed and finish drinking. As a Plt Sgt I was often confronted in the morning by a Lt that needed burped and changed. My response was usually something like “Night Ops Sir, Leadership training”. I never have figured out why it takes so long to teach a Lt the meaning of plausible deniability. Anyway, those two NCO’s went on in life and excelled at everything they did. No charge sheets, no counseling, just the admiration and respect of all for a job well done. Countless acts like that witnessed by those they lead paid huge dividends while deployed. Most people will remain forever ignorant why that is so. I dont want to give away any names because they read this blog from time to time, but their initials are Wayne Wike and Mike Stasko. Born hard to take no shit those two are. Love their brothers on a level lesser men will never comprehend. To this day they will march into hell for each other and those they served with. If recruits like this little shit stain are pushed through boot camp, they will jump out the window later anyway. There has never been… Read more »
So, did they feel good about themselves when they were done with their leadership training?
Well of course they did. I think the only person either one of them was afraid of was my father-in-law.
A retired Navy Corpsman, lets just say Toby was “different”. We all did night maneuvers with Toby at one time or another.
He loved those guys.
If they would have dropped a Muslim Paki from training without exhausting every possible means to ensure he graduated there would have been hell to pay anyway.
“Muslim dropped from Marine training due to hazing”
He got slapped when he “fainted” because he was faking it. It worked by the way, revived his ass instantly.
He did not “fall” to his death as reported. The goofy bastard jumped to his death. At least he did one thing in his life to fruition.
I agree with you, once the little prick quit he should have been gone. The pressure to keep him came from the libtard infestation at HQMC.
The people who are responsible for this persons death are the very ones that will criticize the Corps because of it.
Where is Gen Mattis, “‘That’s just what I mean,’ Dr. Stubbs answered. ‘That crazy bastard may be the only sane one left.’”
Waah, I wanna kill myself because the DI is a tough and he’s mean to me….waah…
Go ahead asshole kill yourself, but you’re gonna do it at home on your own time….that should have been the outcome and it would have been the best for all concerned.
Nothing was gained here and it cost a good man his career apparently.
Let me see if I understand this correctly.
Some non-Caucasian kid decides to sign on the line and join the Corps. He gets to boot camp and finds out his STUFF is no longer needed and he HAS to use USMC STUFF, instead. (Blame the recruiter for not telling him that.) He gets yelled at a lot because that is what DIs and PN Fenstermacher do: yell at you, even if it’s only about your shoes. At some point, someone may even call him a ‘stupid little Paki git’ (a really nasty slur in the UK) and he decides he’s being picked on more than the other bodies are being picked on. And he doesn’t like the food or having to make up his rack, either. So he internalizes all of this instead of doing like us girls did when that Yeoman bitch Bates yelled bloody murder at us to shut up, which was STFU, and not even breathe out loud.
On top of that, he passes out, or maybe pretends to and when he comes to, he sees too many people around him and decides to run away.
No, I’d say he was planning that all along, anyway. Isn’t there a psych screening or REU nowadays, to keep people like that separate? Just asking.
Nope. I recruited for the Marines and getting enlisted bodies through was purely a numbers game. You WILL meet your quota at the end of the month or you can say bye bye to your career, if treating you like a Private doesn’t work first. Psych eval would just present yet another unrealistic challenge for the Marines to keep its numbers up. Recruiters already pull like 15 hour work days, 7 days a week as it is.
I guess the way they spin this is the culture?
Colonel Cucinotta created a culture that allowed this to happen. Is that how it goes?
Rising yeast is a culture.
Bacilli in a petri dish is a culture.
I don’t think that word applies to this.
As several someone elses have pointed out, this individual would have found a way to off himself, regardless.
The hometown semi-official democrat cheerleader, the Detroit Free Press, has run the story. Of course. I’m tempted to comment, but won’t unless this goes stupid. If that happens, I’m jumping in. It full well could, you have Debbie Dingle, of the Dingle congressional dynasty involved.
I’m not buying it. The Colonel po’d somebody, and they saw their chance and took him down.
This will probably result in new commercials appealing to Muslims to enlist. I can see it now. Open to recruit platoons marching to sing-song cadence. Next scene: a platoon is standing at ease. Zoom to three olive-skinned recruits as a voice yells, “Take five. Those who need a prayer rug, double time to the barracks and get it!” The olive-skinned recruits all smile and take off for the barracks. Final scene: the recruits are bowed in prayer on their rugs.
I remember one Recruit who decided to say he was suicidal when I was in. He was in the DI’s office getting smoked like a Marlboro for several minutes. The DI poked his head out and bellowed “ANY OF YOU OTHER PUSSIES WANT TO KILL YOURSELVES? I GOT THE PAPERWORK READY AND I DON’T WANT TO DO THIS MORE THAN ONE TIME!”
Funny thing is that saying they want to die isn’t the express ticket home that they think it is.
>Funny thing is that saying they want to die isn’t the express ticket home that they think it is.
Haha, very true. We had one who said he was thinking of hurting himself in week 3. He finally got to leave us a couple days before graduation… to go hang around for who knows how long at the reception batallion. In the mean time, he was dragged to every training event we went to, only to stand around like a doofus all day long, because he wasn’t allowed to participate.
I hope that hurt him as badly as it sounds.
We had a couple on my OSUT class that decided to say they wanted to off themselves and after that we had 24 hour “Wuss Watch” on the little shits along with Fire Guard and everything else.
When I went through PI in 2001, there was a kid that got dropped to our platoon from another company who constantly tried to quit, and the DIs just kept trying to drag him through the cycle. I can remember our senior telling him “Johnson, if you want off this island, the fastest way is graduation” They finally got rid of him when he flipped out in the gas chamber and tried to fight the DIs who were trying to keep him in there.
When I graduated, I was made a grad hold because of stress fractures in my shin, so I had to spend a few extra months on the island in BMP. Shortly before I finally got to move on to MCT, who do I see at the H&HS chow hall but Recruit Johnson, still stuck there in the seps platoon? He’d probably been there for close to a year at that point. Dumbass.
Dafuq do these people think the military is, anyway? Yeah, I know. Free meals, free food, job training and help with obtaining a college education. There is also fresh air and regular exercise. Pussies.
Don’t forget the clothing…lots of great clothing that chicks in New York pay extra for….or something like that…been a while since I saw Stripes.
Seems to me from this article, the colonel was given the shaft to shut up that dingle berry knuckle head congress person who also seems to be a career DC maggot of the 1st order.
reminds of an old blues tune by Little Walter “Crazy mixed up world”
I find this disturbing: ‘Dingell has questioned whether Siddiqui was hazed or bullied’.
I thought all Marine recruits were hazed AND bullied.
Nah, its called encouraged AND supervised
I thought it was referred to as “MOTIVATION”.
I recall being motivated by a clearing rod to the back while in a prone position. It was close supervision and corrective discipline meted out both deservedly and immediately. Never again did I empty a full mag when the instructions were to fire in three-round bursts. I also recall being encouraged to shave more closely by having to dry shave while under close supervision, cutting my neck and face in multiple places in the process. I had no appeal rights, come to think of it. Gee.
I’ve read about this elsewhere and find nothing to suggest the Colonel was negligent. One article suggests the recently departed was sent to psychiatry and was cleared for return to training. IF that is true, how the heck was the Colonel in any way responsible for his swan dive? As suggested, someone had to go under the bus, and the Colonel was available. I guess it’s too much to believe that the swan diver was wholly responsible for whacking himself. Bunch of PC police. Someone other than the obvious HAS to be responsible.
In case anyone wants to leave a comment on General Shit Stains Command page:
https://www.facebook.com/USMCTECOM/
You might want to wash up after.
Just saw your comment on the FB page, Dave… boy, did you bust it off in someone’s ass!
It must be difficult for them to find a way to deflect the recently painful embarrassment they’ve suffered when some nutberd threw himself over a stair railing.
Another sacrifice for the altar of PC. I’m glad that shitbag only killed himself rather than do something to disgrace the corps which I think we can all agree now was eventually going to happen. Shame the marine corps is so whipped they’ll throw good marines under the bus to appease whomever these days. Fuck that kid, he’s a disgrace, and he’s no fucking marine.
And now it appears the Sgt Maj has been relieved as well. Sgt. Maj. Nicholas A. Deabreau was also relieved of command, Col Cucinotta was relieved of command, and Lt. Col. Joshua Kissoon commanded the Third Recruit Training Battalion was relieved of command.
http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/community/beaufort-news/bg-military/article82227107.html
Thanks for that post. Did I mention that this is all because Major General Lukeman lacks the ability to support and defend the Marines under his command. He is a disgrace to anyone who earned an EGA.
Major General James W. Lukeman
General James Lukeman
Major General Lukeman
James Lukeman
Jamew W. Lukeman
No matter how you spell it…it’S still pronounced SHITBIRD.
We have moved up the Google results but still have a way to go. Why Lukeman did not resign himself is a question that needs answered.
The majority of Marines I have talked to have a loss in confidence for his ability to command even a working party to burn shitters.
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/military/2016/06/08/sergeant-major-parris-island-fired-wake-recruits-boot-camp-death/85588818/
Sad times in the Corps. Hang in there Marines, this festering facade of fake leadership will end in time.
Semper Fi (except you little jimmy lukeman)
Do you need a hug?
Maybe, James Lukeman makes my ass itch. He can help by kissing my Marine Corps ass.
Okay. Here’s a link. Pick one.
http://www.shutterstock.com/s/hugs+and+kisses/search.html
Dave:
Check this out: http://www.tecom.marines.mil/Leaders/LeadersView/tabid/22264/Article/528627/major-general-james-w-lukeman.aspx
No CAR.
A career Marine Corps infantry General Officer in 2016 with no CAR.
How can an infantry officer be promoted to Major General in the USMC without having “seen the elephant” at least once during the past 15 years of continuous USMC combat operations in various theaters?
No CAR. This explains A LOT.
That my friend is a good question. From the mid 70’s through the 80’s I served with some outstanding Marines that did not have a CAR. Those that die were by far the exception.
How this guy managed it over the last 20 years I can only speculate. In the rear with the gear most likely. If he would have been in ear shot of something that went bang he would have been awarded one.
He has had assignments to infantry units, I guess this paper hanging son of a bitch called Major General James Lukeman was busy sucking up.
Awkward typo in that post. It should read
Those that DID were by far the exception.
His only Infantry command was as a captain, after that he went to work either on staffs, at schools, or with security guards. He spent 7 years homesteading in Northern Virginia, starting at Quantico and ending at the Pentagon. He went from there to staff at AFRICOM. In the Army, the fact that he wasn’t selected to command Infantry battalions or brigades would speak volumes.
Might want to double-check the bio link Mick posted above, Bobo. Looks like Luckman commanded 2/5 Marines for just under a year (in Okinawa) beginning in July 2001, then moved to 1 MARDIV staff. Probably explains how he missed early action in Afghanistan. He was on 1 MARDIV DIVSTAFF for OIF I (ACofS G3), which probably explains how he left Iraq without a CAR.
Not defending the guy, but at the higher ranks (LTC and above) acquiring combat badges/ribbons are more a “right place/wrong time” occurrence than anything else. Last time I checked, when a Bn/Bde Cdr or the Division Staff is personally shooting/getting shot at it means someone has royally Fornicated Fido.
He has had several infantry assignments during his career. The thing is no line Officer in the Corps would pass on the chance to be in the shit.
The would find/create a reason to. Of course there are unfortunate years when the Corps is not killing the enemy anyplace. Sad years those are, but no fault of any Marine.
No way shit stain Lukeman couldn’t have found a way to hear a shot in the distance over the last 20 years if he wanted to.
MAU/MEU units were crammed full of career Marines looking for some shit to get into. I once used a re-enlistment option and lat move into another MOS to get deployed.
Nah, this guy did not hold the line to support and defend the Marines under his command.
PISC has been the end of the line for many Marines sadly. It is now getting all to common for the infestation of vaginal vigilantes at HQMC and similar levels to flush a career down the shitter.
Lukeman should have resigned himself over it. Someone has to make an issue of it. He had the opportunity to show what his ass was make out of and he did. PAPER.
Hey Jimmy Lukeman, I know you have read this shit, Phuk ewe pussy. God damn gutless sack of shit. What little esprit de corps you had went down the shitter with that gutless move.
The Corps is being attacked by libtards and he caved without a fight.
Enjoy your bad of digs scumbag.
Should be bag of DICKS scumbag. Seriously, the man is a political hack. He has infiltrated the Corps to make it weaker.
Phuk hymm.
DH: again, I’m not defending the guy or his actions here. But for folks that are more senior, it’s simply not that easy to move from assignment to assignment to get “in the sh!t”. Extra billets simply aren’t there; the billets that exist are already filled; and taking senior “strap-hangers” the unit doesn’t know isn’t generally gonna happen without serious pressure from above. For senior folks, finding a slot to deploy can take time and may not be that easy.
It’s possible the guy avoided deploying after OIF. But from his assignments, it’s also possible he tried to deploy a second time and was told by the USMC: “We need you in your current slot, which is damn important. You’re not going anywhere.”
I understand what you are saying. I am sure he probably uses that kind of rational excuse for things.
The Corps is just not that big. I really don’t have an issue with him not having a CAR. It is just another indication that the past 20 years have been spent pushing paper. Hey, so did I for a while. I loved my desk, cried when they took it away.
“They” probably told him to do all kinds of things. Following orders is understandable…to a point. There are times when a Marine needs to stand up and be counted.
I could give shit loads of examples. In one unit we had several Marines that needed to extend their enlistments to make the next deployment. Two of them decided not to.
The CO called them to the front of formation. He then ordered everyone to do an about face. We did of course, but once it started to sink in that we were turning our backs on our brothers that served with us we started to turn back around.
The SNCO’s began and almost all the unit did. Pissed the CO off. He was trying to make a point, but he went about it in the wrong way. Marines do not turn their backs on other Marines.
They are trying to make a point a PISC. They went abut it in the wrong way. Lukeman turned his back on fellow Marines. He did not turn back around and face the music.
Fuck him.
Fully agree he should have backed his subordinates, DH. IMO he failed miserably there, probably in an attempt to save his own butt.
Only other thing I’ll say is that it’s not rationalization if he actually tried to go and was told, “No.” Orders are orders, and assignments are assignments. You don’t always get to choose where you go or what you do.
No disagreement with that at all brother.
Shit like that happens all the time, it happens to better Marines than I ever was.
This cocksucker just isnt one of them. Fucked up as I am, I flush more leadership down the shitter every morning than this prick ever had.
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May I? There were SIX enlisted Women Marines stationed IN Vietnam. I’m not sure what their jobs were but I do know their were ALL above the rank of private. They said they had to BEG to get sent there.
I would assume they were clerical staff, but even so, they found a way to get there when it was very difficult for WMs to do so.
Numbers, Ex-PH2. Numbers.
There are likely over 50 billets in a typical battalion that can be filled by an E6, and probably over 100 billets in that same battalion that can be filled by a SGT, provided they have the proper MOS or can be OJT trained to perform its duties. There are even more billets that can be filled by an E4 and below.
There is only one billet that can be legitimately filled by an LTC. There are typically two billets for MAJs (XO, S3), and either one or two for E9s (the operations NCOIC is sometimes an E9).
Higher rank severely limits where someone can serve, particularly outside a major headquarters.
Yes, but my point was not about the numbers but rather that these WOMEN went where MEN could have easily been sent to do the same job, even if it was merely clerical work.
You don’t get a CAR in the Marines for simply being shot at or in a dangerous situation, you have to return fire and it has to be documented that the engagement took place. A Marine not having a CAR doesn’t mean he was 100% safe his entire career.
Same bullshit I dealt with on recruiting duty…your career (and therefore, your livelihood) depends on the whims of some 17/18 year old over whom you have no control. Except in that command, the Sgt/SSgt recruiter always got in trouble. The guys at the head shed? Not so much. Shit only rolled downhill.