The Kill Team, Rolling Stone article.
But a review of internal Army records and investigative files obtained by Rolling Stone, including dozens of interviews with members of Bravo Company compiled by military investigators, indicates that the dozen infantrymen being portrayed as members of a secretive "kill team" were operating out in the open, in plain view of the rest of the company. Far from being clandestine, as the Pentagon has implied, the murders of civilians were common knowledge among the unit and understood to be illegal by "pretty much the whole platoon," according to one soldier who complained about them. Staged killings were an open topic of conversation...
These are ugly truths. But I don't think they are ugly truths just about the American army, I think they are ugly truths about, well, us.
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QUOTE: These are ugly truths. But I don't think they are ugly truths just about the American army, I think they are ugly truths about, well, us.
Speak for yourself, and leave ME out of your cosy, collective 'US'.
I have NOTHING in common with these people.
Get YOUR ass into gear, get out and meet a few REAL people. THAT way you may just start to get a grip on reality instead of relying on a blog like this for your social life.
Is it only me that has noticed that most of the people who WERE regularly commenting on here now no longer do so?
Unchecked absolute power leads to absolute corruption.
Joe
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/31/ex-cops-sentenced-in-killing-of-man-after-katrina/
It is not just soldiers but policemen can get the feeling of being untouchable.
Joe
"These are ugly truths. But I don't think they are ugly truths just about the American army, I think they are ugly truths about, well, us."
Spot-on, whether you like it or not.
We have a saying in Slovakia which goes something like "tell the truth and they break your head".
Wasn't like that in my 20-years of US Army service. There were rogue operations that got closed down and the perps prosecuted. But if wasn't an Army-wide theme. However, I've been out for 14 years so maybe things have changed.
Could be. Of course the best and brightest don't go into the military, so you may just not have been aware of it.
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