Two enlisted Marines, a noncommissioned officer and a junior enlisted service member, both attached to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, out of Camp Pendleton, California, were demoted in pay and punished with 45 days of military restriction and 45 days of additional punitive duties, Lt. Col. Warren Cook, commander of 2/4, said in a statement.
(FOX)- The Marines ultimately were sent to NJP because of derogatory comments made about one of their more senior enlisted leaders, officials said, but the comments were discovered through investigation into inappropriate comments about women. The prosecutions were first reported by The Washington Post.
The command was alerted to derogatory comments posted on the social media page “United States Grunt Corps” on April 5, according to Cook’s statement.
The two Marines who were found to have made statements against a member of their chain of command were subjected to public NJP proceedings the same day.
“The Marines and sailors of 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, do not tolerate personal attacks on their Marines, online or elsewhere,” Cook said in the statement. “This kind of behavior flies in the face of our service’s core values, and this organization refuses to condone it.”