The NY Times got it wrong. It is called "smoking" not "hazing"

8 Charged in Death of Fellow Soldier, U.S. Says - NYTimes.com: "It was the culmination of what the family called a campaign of hazing against Private Chen, 19, who was born in Chinatown in Manhattan, the son of Chinese immigrants. Hours later, he was found dead in a guard tower, from what a military statement on Wednesday called “an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound” to the head."

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The NY Times got it wrong. It is called "smoking" not "hazing". It is great fun for bored NCOs and pervades the Army. Any idea that it is discouraged is laughable-NCOs get informally trained to do it.

Via Robert Eckert UAF

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