What's up with Major General Huck? It seems that Pantano is implicating Huck as being the primary reason that charges were brought against him. (ref. the passage you quoted from his book.)
In the Haditha case, the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines had been temporarily attached to the 2nd Marine Division under Maj. Gen. Huck at the time the incident happened in Nov. 2005. Reporting made it sound that Huck retired early (June, 2006) as fallout for not investigating the incident before Times got involved. (Huck is still assigned as an Assistant Deputy at Marine Corps headquarters.)
So was he too gung-ho getting NCIS involved and getting charges preferred in the Pantano case, but not gung-ho enough in the Haditha? Didn't know if this had been discussed before.
Thanks
You're right. We haven't really noted the Huck connection. Your description of his predicament sounds all too real.