EXONERATED: MARINES RESTORE HONOR OF BRONZE STAR RECIPIENT DEMOTED FOR…SHOOTING A TRACTOR?

[JPL]

This news item should generate a lot of comments:

Capt. Joshua Waddell was exonerated by the Marine Corps this week, ending a two-year fight to restore his honor after a career-crushing demotion in 2011, when he ordered snipers in Afghanistan to disable a tractor being used to help a wounded enemy bomb maker escape. Waddell, who was awarded the Bronze Star on his first tour of duty, found himself struggling to keep his career going following his second deployment in Afghanistan, when he was stripped of his command and denied promotions because teenage civilians were later discovered to have been among those helping the bomb maker.

Read the complete article and comments: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/19/nr-marine-exonerated-for-shooting-at-enemy/

Jean-Paul

[Paul C]

The rules of engagement were/are ridiculous for Afghanistan. The politicians and officials who make the rules should be made to spend a month with a combat unit.

[Jock Auld]

Sooner the lads/lasses are home the better!

Asking our troops to fight with one hand tied behind their back is a criminal abuse of the power wielded by corrupt spineless Governments that think only of votes and their carreers.

Get them twats over there with their face in the dirt and then ask them what is a reasonable reponse to effective enemy fire while they their pants.

I am glad the boy has been exonerated for making a good decision with sound judgement and minimum of reasonable force. They can always repair the tractor and the locals were aiding and abbetting a criminal.

He could just have shot the lot and really given them something to debate.

Jock:)

[Paul R]

I am sorry that the Captain had to even go through this. Heck, the teenagers were not even hit. Based upon the event, they were lucky they were not. In any other conflict, they would have been considered legit targets.

[Guest Rick Research]

They were, are and will be. It is our government's POLITICAL policy which is criminally insane regarding deliberate perversion of the long established Geneva Convention rules of engagement. (The U.S. Supreme Court's stupefying input au contraire.)

The unfortunate Captain may be quote unquote exonerated but his career is still over. The Waffen-SS MBAs in command of our military are just as spitefully vindictive as their civilian overlords--he is a Marked Man.

The NAZIS and the SOVIETS had penal battalions, whose purpose it was to be slaughtered so that the enemy could be overrun by following troops. Our entire armed forces are now penal units whose sole purpose is to be mortal targets for an enemy whose belief that we are--as a civilization--suicidally insane is reinforced day after year while we don't-fight-to-not-win.

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, haven't we folks?

God help us all.

Edited August 25, 2013 by Rick Research