David Motari throwing a small puppy off a cliff in Iraq. It appeared to be relatively well fleshed out. It took the puppy more than 3 seconds to hit the ground after being thrown off the cliff, equal to a fall of 100 feet or more. What was wrong about it? Having served in the military myself, eight years as a Airborne Infantryman in the Army with the rank of Sergeant, I can find so many things that I am not sure where to begin.
If it was sick, emaciated or dying, as Motari has claimed, why pick it up at all? It would have been much kinder to have shot it where it lay. I spent 20 years in the military, 16 of them attached to the United States Marine Corps. David Motari threw a puppy over a cliff. His comrades looked on, did nothing to intervene and one of them apparently laughed.
Also in the video, the puppy did not appear to be sick or emaciated as Motari has claimed. In the video of L/Cpl David Motari, when he was holding the puppy up for the camera; prior to his throwing the puppy off the cliff, it is quite obvious that the puppy was then alive. A 17-second YouTube video shows soon-to-be-former Marine Lance Cpl. I’ll also admit to killing my share of snakes, spiders, centipedes, rats and other vermin.
The puppy was cute and never did anything to any one. David Motari was wrong. What makes me sick to my stomach is that these so called “righteous people” act like this kid is standing at the Grand Canyon on vacation; went looking for a puppy and pitched him in. Without it we would be nothing more than a warlord band.
Even so, I believed in protecting the men with whom I served. This act was entirely undisciplined. I don’t see them in Iraq and they have no idea what a young kid is going through in a war zone everyday; a person who may get killed in an unpopular war that these same hypocrites could care less whether this kid dies in or not; I do know what he is going through and, frankly he is out of touch. Yes, thousands of people are being killed in a war that is no longer making sense and the only thing that news people and their ignorant shock-seeking groupies can find to comment on is the irresponsible and (gasp!) “oh so terrible” act of one soldier.
” The Sergeant who was present, Crismarvin Banez Encarnacion has also received and Article-15 (I am thinking he may not be a Sergeant anymore). If David Motari has no more respect than this for this dog’s life, how much respect will he have for a human’s life? Even if, by chance, he does have some respect for human life, he has created the appearance that he does not. It showed a complete lack of concern for any rules or regulations because throwing a puppy off a cliff is certainly against military rules barring some extraordinary, extenuating circumstance. Now let us get to the meat and potatoes of this incident.
He was wrong enough, even under the circumstances that he should have to answer for his actions, but not for the “whinies”; only because that is probably what he would demand of himself if he were in normal circumstances; I doubt very seriously he isn’t paying a terrible price now from his own conscience than any one else could put on him. If that meant taking the life of a human enemy, so be it. David Motari is being punished and, probably, he should be. So far as I know, neither did any of the Marines with whom I served.
When this story and video first came out back in March of this year, I was dumbfounded, sickened and horrified that an E-3 Marine named David Motari had killed a live black-and-white puppy by throwing it off a cliff. Next is the appalling lack of respect for life. ) present did nothing to stop this or, if he could not stop it, at least take immediate action to discipline David Motari afterwards says something negative about the entire unit. Obviously they did not think this was a serious problem.
Motari has received “unspecified no-judicial punishment” (an “article-15″ in military terms) and is being “separated from the Marine Corps. L/Cpl Motari’s actions are inexcusable and definitely bring discredit to the Marine Corps. My rating in the military was Hospital Corpsman. Read the story about Charlie Company and how a village was destroyed however, these soldiers had just been caught in a mine field watching one after another of their own being blown to smithereens every time one of them took a step.
Did my military training in any way stress prevention of cruelty to animals? No. I was trained to save lives, not take them. Regulations be damned, we often had dogs around and in our base camps. In fact if you want to see it follow to the reference after this article.