

While Judy stood among the rows of stacked body armor, Kevlar helmets, and camouflage hiking packs, an infantryman named Brenden McDonel, who was standing a few places behind her in line, pulled out his phone and started surreptitiously taking her photograph. She’d come to CIF to collect her standard issue of combat equipment. The woman-call her Judy-was checking into a new unit. It was a little past ten o’clock, and the weather outside was clear and gusty, typical of winters among the sand pines of coastal North Carolina. One morning this past February, a female active-duty Marine was standing in line at CIF, a cavernous supply warehouse at Camp Lejeune. So WHY has NO ONE been held ACCOUNTABLE? Elliot Ackerman It was, as one observer said, “WEAPONIZED” SEXUAL HARASSMENT and it has become one of the biggest scandals to rock the military in years. Earlier this year, dozens of active-duty male Marines were caught uploading to a private Facebook page thousands of explicit photos of female Marines.
