That charge is typically a training accident, accidental discharge, etc. If the guy is found in a tower with a round through the bottom of his chin then it’s either suicide, murder, or someone shot him by accident from the ground. They aren’t charging murder, so it’s an accidental shot or the soldier killed himself, and the army is claiming the charged soldiers drove him to it.
I’m guessing the guy was a queer, got harrassed, popped himself and the army is going to make an example of these eight soldiers that queers will not be bothered.
If the suicide was a homo, and the homo was harrassing humans, then justice has already been done.
I read it as his fellow soldiers were engaging in horseplay - threatening to shoot him in the head with his service pistol - from the reading of the charges probably “jokingly.” A round inadvertently goes off and he’s dead.
Not sure why everyone is fixating on a possible gay angle. If he were gay that angle would have been played up. It’s more likely the case that cause of all this was lowlife criminals who acted accordingly.