Should This Marine Sergeant Major Have Lost His Job?

Marine Sergeant Major Loses Job After Altercation Depicted In Viral Video -- Washington Post

The debate over whether the United States should have exchanged five Taliban officials for the only U.S. soldier held in captivity by the insurgent group has devolved into this: A senior enlisted Marine just lost his job after an altercation between him and a Marine veteran was depicted in a viral video.

The scene was captured in a brief clip that has received tens of thousands of views in the last few days. It depicts Sgt. Maj. Paul Archie, a 26-year Marine who earned the Bronze Star with V for heroism in Iraq, and Marine veteran Ethan Arguello screaming at each other outside Parris Island, S.C., home of one of the Marine Corps’ two recruit training facilities. The base is one of the military’s most famous installations, in part because it is the setting of “Full Metal Jacket,” Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 film.

Here’s the video in question:

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My Comment: 20 seconds of anger .... caught on video .... and then your career is over. I have kept this story on the side for the past week, but the more that I think about it, the more I wonder if this trend of always being perfect and proper in a world where social media can make a brief confrontation into a NATIONAL BIG THING is the world that we all want to live in. I do not know who these men are .... but before this confrontation they both had an exemplary record of serving in the military .... and now the career for one of them is ruined. I cannot explain it .... but this story rubs me the wrong way.