' Another user, apparently frustrated no pictures had yet been found, posted a few days later: 'BUMP. Members on the board often posted photos - seemingly stolen from female service members' Instagram accounts - before asking others if they had nude pictures of a female service member.įor example, after posting the first name and photograph of a female soldier in uniform on January 21, one board member asked: 'Army chick went to, ig is.

Follow-up replies offered a link to a Dropbox folder named 'Girls of MU' with thousands of photographs inside.ĭropbox did not respond to a request for comment. 'Come on Marines share the wealth here before that site is nuked and all is lost,' wrote one anonymous user who posted on March 6, just two days after Brennan's story was published. Facebook group exodus leads to message board's popularityīrennan's story also led to an apparent exodus of members from the private Facebook group, though some appeared to have found the publicly viewable message board soon after - with the express intent of finding the cache of nude images Marines in the Facebook group were sharing. 'We're examining some of our policies to see if we can make them punitive in nature,' the official said, adding that the Corps was taking the issue very seriously. Robert Neller, would be briefing members of the House Armed Services Committee on the scandal some time next week. According to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, investigators in that case are considering felony charges that could carry a maximum penalty of up to seven years in prison.Īn official familiar with the matter told Business Insider the Marine Commandant, Gen. The report led the Marine Corps to open an investigation, spurred widespread outrage in the media and in Congress, and prompted sharp condemnation from the Corps' top leaders. He reported on a Facebook group called 'Marines United,' which was home to approximately 30,000 members that were sharing nude photos of colleagues, along with personal information and even encouragement of sexual assault. The revelation comes on the heels of an explosive story published earlier this week by journalist Thomas Brennan.

The site, called AnonIB, has a dedicated board for military personnel that features dozens of threaded conversations of men, many of whom ask for 'wins' - naked photographs - of specific female service members, often identifying the women by name or by where they are currently stationed.

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