Taipei Times
Date: November 24, 2015

Green Party Taiwan Taoyuan City Councilor Xavier Wang has posted a picture of a

A picture of a filthy military pillow is pictured in an undated photyo on Taoyuan City Councilor Xavier Wang’s Facebook.
桃園市議員王浩宇在臉書貼出的國軍髒枕頭的照片。
桃園市議員王浩宇在臉書貼出的國軍髒枕頭的照。
Photo from Xavier Wang’s Facebook profile
照片取材自王浩宇臉書

dirty pillow on Facebook, saying that it was a military pillow shot by a friend of his when he was serving his short-term reserve training duty at the Armor Training Command And Armor School in Hsinchu County’s Hukou Township. The picture has provoked heated discussions among netizens. Having just offered help in a case involving Jian Chih-lung, a rookie soldier in a military police training center in Taoyuan who was infected with Leptospirosis and died as a result of sepsis, Wang asked, “How can rookie soldiers avoid getting sick in an environments of this sanitary standard? What’s the matter with the military?”

A netizen commented that, “when I did my military service in the past it was this filthy.” Others said that, “Items for the short-term reserve training are kept for years in a warehouse” and that “Filthy is normal. If they give you brand new stuff, then something really is wrong.” Someone else asked, “Do you expect to be welcome as if you were at a five star hotel? You are here to fulfill your military duty, not to take a vacation.” However, one also said, “Pathetic. So many people take it for granted and think that it is normal for soldiers to use filthy and defective things.” They think the public should stop regarding abnormalities as the normal state of affairs and stop taking unreasonable things for granted if they want the military to make improvements.     [FULL  STORY]