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| Afghanistan |
| U.S. Military Disciplines Soldiers Who Urinated On Taliban, Burned Qurans |
| 2012-08-30 |
| The U.S. military on Monday announced they....still have not been able to get MAJ Nidal Hasan to shave, but have punished Six Army soldiers who burned Qurans at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan and three Marines who urinated on dead Taliban corpses. All received administrative, or "non-judicial," punishments, which means the soldiers will not serve jail time but could lose their jobs in the military or get denied promotions. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 It's a load of shit. All of it. Promote them. |
| Posted by: newc 2012-08-30 15:08 |
| #2 Soldiers can also decline Article 15, non-judicial punishment, and request a courts martial, and decline anyone one of those up to a General Courts Martial [severe penalties increase with each escalation]. but could lose their jobs in the military or get denied promotions. I don't think they're too concerned about that at this point. I suspect the command chain's PC approach to fighting a war has soured them about wanting to be around people who don't give a crap about their lives and the lives of their squadies to make nice-nice with people out to kill them while playing the double cross game with the State Dept and Administration types. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-08-30 13:55 |
| #1 Vice-versa would have driven the point home better. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2012-08-30 13:51 |