Inside the Nude Photo Scandal That Rocked the Marine Corps

Members of a Facebook group called Marines United crowdsourced thousands of images of hundreds of naked servicewomen, including selfies, creepshots, and intimate photos. [ view in [browser](. add esquire@newsletter.esquire.com to your address book ] [Esquire]( [Sunday Reads] FOLLOW US [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Pinterest]( [Instagram]( [You Tube]( [Google Plus]( [Inside the Nude Photo Scandal That Rocked the Marine Corps]( One morning this past February, a female active-duty Marine was standing in line at CIF, a cavernous supply warehouse at Camp Lejeune. It was a little past ten o'clock, and the weather outside was clear and gusty, typical of winters among the sand pines of coastal North Carolina. The woman—call her Judy—was checking into a new unit. She'd come to CIF to collect her standard issue of combat equipment. While Judy stood among the rows of stacked body armor, Kevlar helmets, and camouflage hiking packs, an infantryman named Brenden McDonel, who was standing a few places behind her in line, pulled out his phone and started surreptitiously taking her photograph. McDonel didn't know Judy, but that didn't keep him from posting the pictures to a private Facebook group called Marines United. "Standing in line behind her at CIF," he wrote. "Who's got em?" Within minutes of that first post, dozens of members of Marines United chimed in. [READ MORE]( [MORE FROM ESQUIRE] [Esquire]( [Kit Harington Already Died Once]( As Game of Thrones enters its second-to-last season, Harington faces a dilemma: To enter the next phase of his career, must he leave Jon Snow behind? [Read On]( [Esquire]( [What the Hell Happened on Game of Thrones Season 6?]( Everything you need to remember from each episode in two sentences or less. [Read On]( [Esquire]( [What It Means to Be a Working-Class Clothing Brand in America Today]( Carhartt navigates the murky waters. [Read On]( [Esquire]( [There Might Be a Cure for Baldness By the Time You Go Completely Bald]( Apologies to the already-bald, though. [Read On]( [Esquire]( [According to This US Citizenship Welcome Letter, Obama is Still POTUS]( If only. [Read On]( [Unsubscribe]( • [Privacy Policy]( [esquire.com]( ©2017 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019