Another Military Video: Just funny or still inappropriate?

I really have to wonder if it was right for soldiers to bring their digital cameras and videos. Perhaps most of them are alright, but there are always a few which are questionable.

In this video, a female GI in a maintenance section gets duct-taped and put on a pole. The video is about 4 minutes long where a laughing female is getting wrapped in heavy tape.

According to poster "wickedharleyluva" on YouTube, he claims "This is what happens in Iraq when there are no Hummers to fix and your the only chick in the section...AND the only Yankee in a Louisiana unit!"

As you watch the clip, the female and and the guys are just enjoying themselves, and she was not under any such duress.

Author's Opinion

It's funny. Duct tape can be certainly be used to tie a person up pretty easily. In college, pranks often involve tying a fellow friend up. One time, one of brothers failed to get our soda machine re-filled, so he got duct-taped to our mascot cardboard guy and we paraded him around.

But in today's world of political correctness and the information superhighway, I can imagine the following things:

Taxpayer advocate groups criticising the waste of duct-tape for non-government purposes.

Anti-military groups criticising the waste of manpower and effort on silly morale-positive where soldiers are trying to enjoy themselves.

Women groups criticising the "aggressive" manhandling of the female soldiers and crying abuse when she is being duct-taped.

Peace groups calling for the soldiers to return home because it shows they are just ignorant. They might even suggest that these soldiers do not care about the Iraqi people.

John Kerry calling for soldiers to return because they are stupid and only know how to do pranks to each other.

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Clearly, the folks at the Pentagon won't be happy with it. For the soldiers in the other ranks, they will just laugh quietly to themselves. It's always the officers that are concerned since it's all political, and for the grunts, they are trying to act human. On one side, these folks are defending our freedom and killing the insurgents, and on the other, they can still act and joke around just like you and me.