How a viral video could force a cultural reckoning in the Marine Corps

"I don’t know if you can tell but I’m nervous,” a Marine sergeant named Dalina told her followers in a video posted to TikTok in December.

“I’ll raise my right hand and swear to tell the truth,” she said in advance of a disciplinary proceeding for a fellow Marine she hadn’t seen in more than a year. “I promised myself I’d show up and tell my story. For so long I looked for reasons why I deserved this. How could I let this happen to me?”