{"id":10295,"date":"2012-01-11T02:57:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T02:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=10295"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:30:34","slug":"marines-video-shows-troops-urinating-on-corpses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/01\/marines-video-shows-troops-urinating-on-corpses\/","title":{"rendered":"Marines: Video shows troops urinating on corpses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=09wTlEj8-Hc&amp;feature=youtu.be]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>Editor&#8217;s note: This post contains language and imagery that some might find offensive.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong><em>By Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube, NBC News<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">A video posted on YouTube shows four combat Marines urinating on the corpses of three dead men in Afghanistan, a U.S. military official told NBC News on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&#8220;It should be pretty easy&#8221; to identify the Marines in the video, said one official, and those involved &#8220;will be held accountable for their actions.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The video, posted on YouTube, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=09wTlEj8-Hc&amp;feature=youtu.be\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">shows the four Marines<\/span><\/a>, in full combat gear, standing in a semi-circle over three bodies and one or two can clearly be seen urinating on the corpses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">As the video closes one of the Marines appears to say, &#8220;Golden F&#8230;&#8230;. showers.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The Marines, though not identified by name, were confirmed to be a sniper team out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., U.S. military officials told NBC News. They were deployed to southern Afghanistan from early 2011 until August of 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In a formal statment, a Marine Corps official said: &#8220;The actions portrayed are not consistent with our core values and are not indicative of the character of the Marines in our Corps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">At first, the Marines could not determine whether the incident took place in Iraq or Afghanistan, but it was later determned to be Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/01\/11\/10120072-marines-video-shows-troops-urinating-on-corpses\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=09wTlEj8-Hc&amp;feature=youtu.be] Editor&#8217;s note: This post contains language and imagery that some might find offensive. 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