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So 24 civilians are worth about 9 grand in pay?
13 years ago
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news.....narmed-iraqis/
His defense seemed to be based off unclear (at the time) RoE concerning recent convoy attacks, but you figure, at some point after killing a household full of people and finding no detonators, no guns, you'd think "hmmm, wrong address?".
He pleaded guilty to 'negligence' dropping 9 counts of manslaughter on plea agreement, and apart from the demotion from SSgt to Private, nothing handled by by the court martial isn't typical NJP level stuff for say, getting drunk on duty.
The military is not a forgiving judicial structure. You can find yourself doing hard time for a pittance of drugs, followed by the nice fuck-you of at least a Bad Conduct Discharge later, if not outright Dishonorable.
The man must have great lawyers, especially when witnesses testifying against him are his own troops, although granted they're probably glad shit is rolling uphill. Any of them could have said his order was illegal and dealt with the consequences later. It notes none of them were charged.
Yet, the man is keeping his uniform, getting a sizeable chunk of money taken away, and likely on restriction for a while after possible 3 months of prison not to mention the bust-down to E1 (assuming the even follow max they can do), but this is really standard stuff apart from the massive demotion.
There's reacting poorly under stress, which a lot of good servicemen do, but then there's a whole new level when you give an order to shoot old unarmed men in wheelchairs.
But it makes you wonder why such a stink was made over pissing on dead Iraqi insurgents.
His defense seemed to be based off unclear (at the time) RoE concerning recent convoy attacks, but you figure, at some point after killing a household full of people and finding no detonators, no guns, you'd think "hmmm, wrong address?".
He pleaded guilty to 'negligence' dropping 9 counts of manslaughter on plea agreement, and apart from the demotion from SSgt to Private, nothing handled by by the court martial isn't typical NJP level stuff for say, getting drunk on duty.
The military is not a forgiving judicial structure. You can find yourself doing hard time for a pittance of drugs, followed by the nice fuck-you of at least a Bad Conduct Discharge later, if not outright Dishonorable.
The man must have great lawyers, especially when witnesses testifying against him are his own troops, although granted they're probably glad shit is rolling uphill. Any of them could have said his order was illegal and dealt with the consequences later. It notes none of them were charged.
Yet, the man is keeping his uniform, getting a sizeable chunk of money taken away, and likely on restriction for a while after possible 3 months of prison not to mention the bust-down to E1 (assuming the even follow max they can do), but this is really standard stuff apart from the massive demotion.
There's reacting poorly under stress, which a lot of good servicemen do, but then there's a whole new level when you give an order to shoot old unarmed men in wheelchairs.
But it makes you wonder why such a stink was made over pissing on dead Iraqi insurgents.
