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A blanket party (also known as "locksocking") is a form of corporal punishment, hazing or retaliation conducted within a peer group, most frequently within the military or military academies. The victim (usually asleep in bed) is restrained by having a blanket flung over them and held down.
Blanket Party – Group assault: victim's head is covered by a blanket so the perpetrators cannot be identified. Blood pinning – Hazing ritual wherein more senior servicemembers will pound a newly earned award (typically airborne wings or rank) into the recipients chest causing bleeding
The blanket protest began on 14 September 1976 when newly convicted prisoner Kieran Nugent refused to wear prison uniform. [6] Nugent had previously been interned in the compounds of Long Kesh during 1975, but was arrested in May 1976 and received a three-year sentence after being convicted of possessing weapons and hijacking a car.
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.
The investigation is continuing into the mass shooting at a teen birthday party in smalltown Dadeville, Alabama, in which four people were killed and 32 injured.. One of the survivors of the ...
Detroit police announced all 19 people injured in last weekend's block party shooting are out of the hospital and no suspects are in custody.
Many of those killed at the Inland Regional Center worked for the health department, making their living inspecting restaurants and other spots.
Military necessity, along with distinction and proportionality, are three important principles of international humanitarian law, governing the legal use of force in an armed conflict.