Testimony from Haditha lead investigator, NCIS agent Nadya Mannle: LCpl Sharratt Article 32

Defend Our Marines ^ | October 20, 2007 | David Allender

[RS]

Maloney’s testimony is interesting - taking my time going through it. - anything specifically there that caught your eye ?

[RedRover]

You may also want to see the testimony of the pathologist, LtCol Rouse.

I was pretty interested that so much could be reconstructed in house four. Apparently, this was not the case with houses one and two which were repaired.

I need to go back over the testimony myself. It takes a long time to go over the converted file (from a pdf) and make it legible. (For some reason, there are always lots of missing spaces between words and random paragraph marks to be removed before it can be posted.) So I need to read it now from start to finish once I've regained my eyesight.

[RS]

Didn’t see a lot here that gives any insight -

This might want to be noted -

Q. Now, is there the slightest possibility, ma’am — and I say this with all due respect — is there the slightest possibility that this is a 9-millimeter round that caused this?

A. It certainly — I would say more consistent with a high velocity type weapon. Again, when it is atypical, there are different forces transmitted, tumbling, defamation of the bullet, and the transfer energy is different.

Q. This is simple physics, isn’t it? This is simply how much momentum you can transfer. And if you lose some MV when you go through the door, the MV you got left is less. And that small round just isn’t going to do that. Guys in combat know that, don’t they?

This exchange appears to be aimed at excluding a 9mm round as being the one through the closet ( same as Mallorey determined ) BUT at the end the questioner says “And that small round just isn’t going to do that”

By “small round” he is characterizing the 9mm as a pistol, low velocity “small” round, rather then the 5.56 M4 high velocity round.

Only problem there is that the 5.56 round is actually smaller in diameter then the 9mm. Some nit-picker might make a big deal over that.

The bullet they recovered was a 5.56mm, and they were able to exclude it from every weapon used that day except Wuterich.