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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (108008)	9/1/2005 9:27:28 AM
From: Suma	Respond to of 108807

Good article. Thanks

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (108008)	9/2/2005 1:40:10 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

I think that what Sanger has to say about how the Marine Corps is not a CULT is mostly valid. I have not said that the military is a cult either that I can recall. At the very end of her piece she hurriedly and sloppily says it is not brainwashing, with which I still disagree. There is a distinct difference between cults and brainwashing--they are not necessarily found in the same place. That is, you can be brainwashed without being in a cult. Military life after boot camp is not a cult-like experience; there is a degree of free will and free association and freedom of choice definitely. I suspect you cannot be in a cult without being brainwashed, however. We can see from the (somewhat) scholarly articles and the first-person accounts that forced marching to exhaustion, chanting, public humiliation and all the other shared experiences are designed to break individuals down and build a compliant, reliable group. Once that is accomplished (or the recruit washes out), life returns much more to normal. Not so in a cult, of course.