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Marine Corps drops reflective vests from required biker gear - Hilton Head Island Packet
29 May 2009, 8:38 pm



Marine Corps drops reflective vests from required biker gear

Hilton Head Island Packet, SC

Gunnery Sgt. Sean mccullough, owner of a 2007 Triumph Speed Triple, said that while he didn't think the vests were effective at saving lives, he followed orders. "When it was the requirement, I wore it as any good Marine would," said mccullough, ...



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I would like to hear some opinions on wearing a safety vest.

The other armed services only require that safety vests be worn on base. It is a bit of a stretch to require service members to wear a vest any time they ride - and unenforceable as the Marine Corps found out. That said, I fully realize that when one is in a uniformed service, he or she surrenders some of the freedoms and rights civilians enjoy. I keep a safety vest in my kit bag to wear when I ride onto a base.

I do like what one rider said - the requirement should be to wear a protective jacket designed to reduce the effects of impact.
 
Surprised that the wearing of reflective vests was a requirement outside the Camp area, the only requirement for serving members of H.M Forces are those set by the State and applicable to all Motorcyclists wether civilian or Military.
Though if you were prosecuted by the Police for any serious motoring offences, you would be liable to be punished again by the Military for conduct unbecoming of a serving soldier and/or bringing the Army into disrepute. Drinking and driving was a definite double punishment with loss of rank being a standard procedure.
 
I was surprised to learn that the USMC required wearing the vest off post. The leaders think nothing of sending a service member in harms way and then get worried about a safety vest and a helmet? Military members are risk takers by nature - or we wouldn't have been in the military.

The double prosecution is the same for the US services. A DUI for anyone over the grade of E-4, corporal or specialist is the kiss of death, a career ender. The offender may not get bounced out immediately; but he or she will not be promoted and that will get him or her bounced out.
 
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Ahhhhhh yes, but Carl.....the Marine Corps will Courts Marshall you for getting a severe sun burn too.


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That was also a punishable offence = Rendering yourself unfit for duty by means of a Self Inflicted Injury
 
You seem to forget how contolled your life was by the Military, after 27 years of waking up and thinking " I will wear my green trousers today " to waking up one day and having to decide yourself what to wear, was hell of a transition to make .
 

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