Don't take that one to the bank just yet. IMHO these court-martials of underlings are laying groundwork for some whackings of overlings. Everybody I know (and my daily encounters run from E-4, corporal, to O-6, colonel) is disgusted by the collapse of leadership and discipline in that unit.
The commander of the MI Company involved is also female, and she's also lawyering up (as well she should; I see an Article 32 investigation in her immediate future). But all the skunks aren't women by any means. One of the MP company commanders is male and is a bigger jerk that Karpinski -- he is certainly facing prison time (among his other, uniquely military violations, the sleazeball took pictures of his female subordinates -- while they were showering. Scaly, scaly, scaly geek....) I don't have the Taguba Report in front of me here, but I believe this jerk's name is Leo Merck. Watch the news.
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AND the Occifer machine has kicked in to defend her
Don't take that one to the bank just yet. IMHO these court-martials of underlings are laying groundwork for some whackings of overlings. Everybody I know (and my daily encounters run from E-4, corporal, to O-6, colonel) is disgusted by the collapse of leadership and discipline in that unit.
From one who I have known for 20 years, and who is in a position to know, I have had hints to the effect that this unit and its commander were known to be slovenly excuses for soldiers prior to deployment, with a low mission-readiness rating, poor training, and crap morale and discipline.
Aftershocks of the Clinton Disaster.
I don't know how it will pan out when the unit's pre-deployment reviews hit the press/congress/court.
I suspect that the tagline will somehow be "It was Bush's/Rummy's decision to field these deckapes - it is ALL BUSH'S FAULT!" irrespective of how utterly unrealistic that pov is.