Do you believe that each officer should do as he pleases, regardless of the UCMJ?
BTW you did not answer what the rules were that you were taught. If you're going to give us that "Army went PC" crap, tell us what rules you operated under. As for you being glad I got out, my Battalion commander had my wife and me to his home for dinner trying to get me to stay but I'm sure you are smarter than LTC Crandall was.
No, I believe each officer has a responsibility to protect his troops at all costs.
I don't think I was the one who said originally that the Army went PC. What rules did I operate under? Boy, that is easy: "save your ass and your buddies too". That was the rule I, and everyone else, operated under in my Armor unit. And I don't give a crap if you like that rule. We didn't lose one person in the Gulf after several enemy contacts. If they were wearing camoflague and weren't waving a friggin white flag, we killed them. I don't give a crap if you like that either. I am not going to get shot in the ass because some stupid bastard, not unlike yourself, thinks we need to treat enemy combatents like they are 15 year old kids getting pulled in for a shoplifting charge. If the tables would have been reversed, they would have killed me, beat me, or tortured me or one of my brothers. They never had a chance, because my unit didn't show the bastards any mercy. If you have issues with that, well, me and another 56 guys would like to tell you to go to hell.
I am sure LTC Crandall is a genius...