Agree. My big concern here is with the troops being subjected to criminal charges for actions they take in a combat environment. To the best of my knowledge, nobody is denying that these were two terrorists(insurgents, for the PC types), yet this guy is still facing murder charges. It also pi$$es me off that so many armchair generals and lawyers want to hang this guy for killing two TERRORISTS.
I hope this guy walks.
Being in combat did not exempt me from the requirement to obey orders. Indeed, the reason the military is so anal about obeying orders is because discipline is the only thing maintaining the barest minimum of control over events on the battlefield.
To the best of my knowledge, nobody is denying that these were two terrorists(insurgents, for the PC types), yet this guy is still facing murder charges.
Bottom line: nobody knows. Funny thing about shooting someone: you can't question stiffs after you've killed them. (BTW, Pantano, by his own admission, fired 60 rounds on BURST across a period of at least 40 seconds. Looks like he has some impulese control issues.)
It also pi$$es me off that so many armchair generals and lawyers want to hang this guy for killing two TERRORISTS.
It pi$$es me off that so many armchair generals and lawyers want to call this guy a hero for endangering his own men and denying access to whatever intel these two had because they get their notions of what war is and how it works from reading Sgt. Rock comic books.