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JOE BANGERT, U.S. MARINES: And so I gave other testimony, the one about the rabbit lesson ...

which I thought was very important, and I still think it is ...

and that was at the end of staging battalion at the Camp Pendleton base in California for the marines before you went to Vietnam ...

WINTER SOLDIER, JOE BANGERT, U.S. MARINES: ... where the staff NCO comes out and he has a rabbit. And he's talking to you about escape and evasion and survival in the jungle, and he has this rabbit. And in a couple of seconds, after everyone practically falls in love with it -- not falls in love with it, but they're humane -- he cracks its neck, skins it, disembowels it, just like I testified that this happened to the woman. He does this to a rabbit, and they throw the guts out into the audience --"

JOE BANGERT, U.S. MARINES: ... and takes the skin of the rabbit and turns it inside out and makes a little bootie for his foot, and says, "You might have to do this in case your helicopter crashes in Vietnam, or you're separated from your unit."

And I thought the subtext of that little lesson was to completely brutalize people.

WINTER SOLDIER, JOE BANGERT: You can get anything out of that you want, but that's your last lesson you catch in the United States before you leave for Vietnam.

JOE URGO, U.S. AIR FORCE: And I went and listened to the three days of testimony ...

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