Hazing.
It's a scary word, but the more you know about it,
the more you can be better prepared to identify it
and prevent it from happening.
But how do you put hazing into words?
Hazing as it's defined in DoDI 1020.03 and 1020.04 reflects it as:
Well, what do you think?
It's a little light.
What about specific examples?
You didn't talk about oral or written berating of a person,
encouraging another person to engage in illegal, harmful,
demeaning, or dangerous acts, playing abusive or malicious tricks,
Well, no but-
Branding, handcuffing, duct taping, tattooing, shaving, greasing or painting...
Okay, okay, okay. I'm not done yet.
Obviously. I'm going to add more data.
What if we use a real world example?
You really think we can find hazing happening in our organization right now?
How hard can it be?
Service members or DOD civilian employees
may be responsible for an act of hazing,
even if there was actual or implied consent from the victim
and regardless of the grade or rank, status, or service of the victim.
Hazing is prohibited in all circumstances and environments,
including off duty or unofficial unit functions and settings.
I don't get it.
We search this place from top to bottom
and we still didn't find a single instance of hazing
No forcing someone to consume food, drugs or alcohol.
No knowingly convincing or coercing anybody to do something wrong,
or knowingly seeing somebody else coerce somebody to do something wrong.
There wasn't even subjecting another person to excessive or abusive
use of water.
Well, I mean, there was an incident at the water cooler.
I think Janice was just being nice, getting the new guys some water.
Yeah. Fair.
I mean, I guess there's probably a good thing
that we haven't found anything wrong.
Yeah, but what if we did?
What would we do about it?
I guess we'll need to take another look at the
DoDI 1020.03 or DoDI 1020.04.
That's a good idea. Let's go take a look.
While hazing may be difficult to spot,
you should always be ready.
Report any incidents you find so proper investigations can be launched.