Winston's real name has been changed to protect his identity. While Brennan initially reported that the distribution of nude photos began “less than a month” after women were assigned to 1st Battalion in January, Winston, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan who joined the Marines as an infantryman in 2006, told Task & Purpose that he had been invited to the group as early as April 2016, when it only had around 8,700 members.
Marines United itself has been around longer than most people realize. “I need you to ask yourselves, how much more do the females of our Corps have to do to be accepted?”īut an inside look at these digital communities reveals a culture that won’t be intimidated by threats from Washington. The fiery line of questioning that defined the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing suggests that lawmakers won’t let this scandal fade from the public’s memory anytime soon. Jackie Speier, a Democrat from California, sought to make changes to the Uniform Code of Military Justice to explicitly address problems related to the repugnant Facebook pages that preceded Marines United in the wake of the new scandal, she has renewed her push for legislation to make sharing illicit photos without consent illegal. Some hope that the Marines United scandal will finally be the catalyst for real action on military sexual assault.
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