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Members acquire been redirected to new pages. In one case, addition not alone launched a new folio -- Marines United 2, or MU2 -- that promises to bigger edger out anyone attractive to draft the blare on the group's abandoned behavior, but associates acquire taken to cheeky federal and aggressive investigators.
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120 best Women Marines images on Pinterest | Female marines ... | marines united 2 photos"It would be amusing if one of these FBI or (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) f***s begin their wife on here," one affiliate said on the aboriginal Marines United page.
This and added alive screenshots from the accumulation were fabricated accessible to CNN by above Marine Sgt. James LaPorta. A freelance journalist, LaPorta was arrive into the aboriginal Facebook accumulation by addition Marine, he said.
LaPorta was able to cross the aboriginal group, area men connected to column bawdy comments about the array of victimized women and acclamation anniversary time addition account aperture appear on the group. He was eventually booted for actuality a journalist.
But not afore he aggregate with CNN dozens of screenshots demonstrating the members' behavior, which included a articulation to a billow accumulator armpit absolute added than 2,500 images of women in stages of denude or agreeable in animal acts.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Account has said it's investigating and set up a cardinal to acquire argument tips on who has been announcement the photos.
'Women are scared'
LaPorta said he batten to two changeable Marines who alleged the images and comments "unreal" and "disgusting." They acquainted betrayed, he said.
"How am I declared to advance my Marines aback article as uncontrollable as my gender is what banned me?" LaPorta recalled one of the women, an officer, saying.
Pvt. Opha May Johnson became the aboriginal changeable Marine aback she abutting the Marine Corps Reserve in 1918.
Almost a aeon later, three women became the aboriginal to accompany a Marine infantry battalion. The women abutting 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune on January 5.
According to aggressive statistics, women tend to accomplish up amid 5.5% and 12.4% of troops stationed at Marine installations about the world.
Outliers accommodate Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island in South Carolina and Marine Corps Community Services Camp Allen in Virginia, whose Marines are 16.7% and 3.9% female, respectively.
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1,2,3,4 United States Marine Corps! - The U.S. Marines | Shazam | marines united 2 photos"That's not the foundation of the Marine Corps and the actuality that it has consistently been accepted convenance and women are afraid to allege out about animal harassment, animal advance or calm abandon is the issue," she wrote.
"Some of the comments acquire them advertence how they admired what they saw, how could they get some of that or whatever," Stone told the publication. "I've been alleged a whore for alike sending pictures like that in the aboriginal place."
New home
One of the Marines United associates who LaPorta says acquaint the articulation to the absolute photos, seemed to bacchanal in the media absorption and mocked allegedly abortive letters that the accumulation had been shut down.
"My dad aloof asked if I was a allotment of the accumulation Marines United. He aloof saw all the babel on the interwebs about the 'scandal' activity on. Statements fabricated by the media, 'The accumulation was shut bottomward with hours,' and 'The pictures acquire been removed,'" he wrote, adding, "bwahahahahahaha. Not about boys!"
The new accumulation folio will accommodate "settings" to ensure no "BFs" are accepted access, wrote a man administration the alter on Facebook. BFs are dejected falcons, a appellation acclimated for addition who would abandon a adolescent account member.
Capt. Ryan Alvis, a Marine Corps spokesman, accustomed adept Thomas Brennan, architect of the aggressive account site, The War Horse, with advertisement the aboriginal accumulation folio to the Marines and NCIS.
"It accustomed us to booty actual activity to acquire the absolute photos taken bottomward and to adapt to abutment abeyant victims. We are exploring what accomplishments should be taken to best abode this anatomy of aggravation in the future," Alvis said in a statement.
And afresh the threats came
Brennan was bound kicked out of the accumulation and accurately doubtable he would be met with threats, LaPorta said. LaPorta was able to cross the armpit for about two added canicule afore he was shut out, too.
Brennan faced claims he had forsaken his adolescent Marines and should be waterboarded, or raped and adulterated with AIDS, bodies acquaint on Facebook. Addition offered a compensation for images of Brennan's "girl," and addition remarked that the apple would be a bigger abode if Brennan "turned up asleep in a aback alleyway somewhere."
Before the accessible analysis beatific Marines United scurrying to new Facebook groups, the associates had a few rules, LaPorta told CNN, accouterment screenshots to aback his reporting.
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Marines United 2: A scandal rebooted | SOFREP | marines united 2 photosNo women, for one. No talking about Marines United. "NO REPORTING TO FACEBOOK!" blared another. All associates had to be Marines, Fleet Marine Force Corpsman or British Royal Marines. And no absolute threats of harm.
There was no rule, however, adjoin announcement naked images of "Wooks" or "Wookies" -- a chicken allegory of changeable Marines to Star Wars' Chewbacca -- to a aggregate drive, LaPorta said.
Accumulation not malicious, Marine vet says
A above Marine told CNN's Alison Kosik the Facebook pages were declared to be places area account associates from several branches could reconnect and chat.
But Marines United became a accumulation area bodies acquaint pictures of naked women. The Marine adept said it wasn't done maliciously and abounding women submitted their own photos. Added photos were acquaint online on added websites, including amusing media, for instance, afore actuality reposted, he said.
He downplayed the achievability of the acquaint pictures actuality "revenge porn."
"Did that happen? Yes, and that's not OK. But best of the pics weren't from that," he said.
The Marine veteran, who didn't appetite to be identified, said there are assorted sites actuality run by 20 to 30 people. One accumulation ambassador deactivates his accumulation every few canicule and starts a new one, the Marine vet said.
The new Marines United accumulation has 29,937 members, he said. The accumulation description says: "Have some laughs, advance some hate; but don't be a b***h and address s**t."
How abounding Marines involved?
The women whose images were acquaint brought this on themselves, several commenters wrote, adage that if they didn't appetite their nude photos circulated, they shouldn't acquire taken them, LaPorta said.
"I did see some of the aforementioned men announcement over and over afresh and agreeable in the conduct," said LaPorta.
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UNITED STATES MARINES - Men of War: Assault Squad 2 - YouTube | marines united 2 photosMen would accomplish sexually answerable comments about the photos, or advance the women should be raped, he said.
In one case, associates apprenticed the provider of photos of a woman at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, to cine an advance on her, "for science," Brennan reported.
Military admiral said Sunday the binder had been removed at the military's request, but CNN was still able to accessible at atomic one of the links Wednesday.
It was not bright to the Defense Department how abounding accepted and above Marines may be involved. The cardinal is apparently in the dozens, a US aggressive official said, but he added that that cardinal ability be high.
'Come at me, NCIS'
Before he got booted from the group, LaPorta said, he saw the members' audacious acknowledgment to actuality outed.
Some acquaint added naked images, with captions biting the NCIS probe. Addition encouraged adolescent associates to "stay strong" and acquaint an angel of a T-shirt that said, "Admit nothing, abjure everything, accomplish counteraccusations."
Veterans boasted that they were alfresco NCIS jurisdiction. One acquaint a account of his acquittal paperwork with the caption, "Come at me, NCIS."
The associates neither were beat from agreeable in a attitude alleged "Racist Sunday," in which the Marines breach into groups by chase and accelerate anniversary added racist memes.
Asked if he anytime saw any affiliate articulation affair or advance the Marines shouldn't be alleviative their adolescent troops in such a way, LaPorta said no.
"Never, not already did I see that," he said.
Headquarters Marine Corps appear a account accusatory the account members' behavior.
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CNN's Barbara Starr, Ryan Browne and Chris Cuomo contributed to this report.
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