Green Beret Describes First Day Hazing by Team in Okinawa Japan

What was said

"I knocked on the door that morning at 9:00. They opened the door, looked at me, and slammed the door. And they literally made me stand outside um all day. it was into, you know, 4:30 that afternoon was when the teams aren't always ready to talk to me. So from 9 to, you know, 16:30, I stood out of the team room at parade rest just waiting for them to talk to me."

A newly qualified Green Beret recounts his first day at a combat search and rescue team in Okinawa, where teammates made him stand outside at parade rest for over seven hours before speaking to him. The team told him they didn't trust him because of his ethnicity and denied him the combination to the team room for a month, relegating him to janitorial duties. The extreme hazing went beyond typical new guy treatment, particularly because he had arrived as a junior E5 through a personal connection rather than following the normal progression.