It’s long been known that certain branches of the military are full of mental, physical and sexual abuse, but it’s still surprising when you hear a story like this one come out.

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This article concerns allegations made against Corporal Danny Foster, 30 (above), and corporal Philip Beer, 34 (below), who are both on trial at Portsmouth military court for the ill treatment of a subordinate. The allegations are alleged to have occurred between May and August 2014 at Faslane and Coulport naval bases in Argyll.

The unnamed marine had the following to say about the pair, but be warned this is quite graphic and upsetting:

You could be punished for anything starting from just leaving a pen lid on the floor up to operational things like not turning on your radio while on patrol.

A senior marine would stand at the front and would ask if there were any integrity shouts – which meant you would own up to a mistake you had made.

Then there would be stitch ups, and marines or corporals could stitch each other up and report something someone else had done.

On the first occasion, there had been a map reading test which was made too hard and so a number of people failed.

We got lined up at the front of the room during family time and the corporals, who were at the back, were talking about what they would make us do.

They all laughed when Corporal Foster said we should wank to gay porn.

When family time ended everyone made their way to where we slept – on the way I told Foster I wasn’t going to do it but he said to me ‘you fucking are’.

The porn was military themed porn, the men had berets on and people were watching us – we were told the last person to ejaculate would get another punishment.

I felt disgusted and degraded having to do it, it was massively degrading, I had no power against it; I could not say no.

We often decided punishments via a game of Deal Or No Deal.

There was a PowerPoint presentation and the forfeits would be projected onto the wall and others would be holding bits of paper with numbers on.

On one occasion, I had two boxes (choices) left and we would usually get a swap offered by whoever was the banker.

Foster knew I had [a punishment called] Django and would not let me swap because he knew I hated it.

I had to take the punishment – there was a metal pull-up bar in the gym which you would hang from and be whipped.

Corporal Foster was not there when I was whipped, I had to have another marine do it and be my witness.

There were different things used to whip you – on this occasion I was whipped with a rubber exercise band and then left hanging there afterwards.

I have PTSD due to what happened.  That does affect my memory and I try to put what went on out of my mind, but I do remember what happened.

Damn, and they wonder why people don’t want to join the army when you hear about stuff like this going down. Not sure if this guy is milking it for compensation or genuinely seriously affected by these issues, but either way it does sound fairly traumatic being forced to jerk off to gay porn and then getting whipped and left to hang in a gym.

Feel sorry for him or anyone else that had to go through this. The military sounds like it’s completely messed up.

For more of the same, here’s a story about a female RAF recruits initiation ceremony that went on to be described as sexual abuse. Told you.