Commanders lost their common sense. Remember a scene from the movie “A Bridge Too Far”. James Caan played this sergeant who brought his wounded lieutenant to an Army surgeon in a forward area hospital. The surgeon briefly looked at the wounded man and declared him dead. The sergeant did not agree so he went after the surgeon and forced him at gunpoint to examine the wounded officer again. This time the surgeon did a more thorough examination and discovered that the lieutenents pupils were still dilating, meaning he was still alive despite the head wound. The surgeon immediately beckoned his staff for surgery. The lieutenant survived. The sergeant offered to be arrested, and the surgeon a full colonel in rank called the MP. He told the MP’s that the sergeant threatened him with a pistol and will be arrested. The MP complied. The sergeant was about to resign to his fate, then the colonel told the MP to hold the sergeant for only 12 seconds and ordered them to release him. Surprised, the MP’s complied for 12 seconds and left. Technically the sergeant did break the rules, but the surgeon understood the field situation why the sergeant did what he did. So he opted to “enforce” the rules, and in his way apologized to the sergeant without destroying the discipline of chain of command. In the end the sergeant returned to the fighting and the surgeon took in the humbling lesson of the day. Hopefully officers like the surgeon still exists in our military.
Sergeant Eddie Dohun was based upon the real-life SSGT Charles Dohun. Just parenthetically, it didn’t quite happen that way in real-life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bridge_Too_Far_%28film%29#cite_note-18
They do, but not in the JAG, which is a collection of litigating bureaucrats with 12 weeks of basic and then courses in military procedure. They are easily manipulated by politicians and this is just another case when the CO says run with it. The regular/frequent prosecutions of our best young men in the Iraq conflict is a 9 year event. How else could the war even LAST that long; coddling the enemy and tying the hands of our young men.
Guys have already been tried for murder on the perjured testimony of the enemy, from the most disgraceful (Iraq) nation of ingrates in human history, a nation where dishonesty is part of their culture.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.