Military Personnel: They’re Just Like the Rest of Us, and Some of Them Worse
October 27, 2019
Thirteen Marines have been charged with involvement in human smuggling operations and face military court proceedings for failure to obey an order, drunkenness, larceny, perjury, and transporting and/or conspiring to transport undocumented immigrants. And yet, all members of the military are looked up to as heroes just for joining.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

