Posted on 11/07/2006 3:14:13 PM PST by pitinkie
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Seventeen members of a Marine Corps Reserve unit from Jacksonville are under investigation for misconduct.
The Marines under investigation are assigned to Bravo Company, 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion.
The unit spent spent eight months in the Al Anbar Province in Iraq.
The Marine Corps says the battalion provided counterinsurgency operations support and protected key infrastructures.
The unit returned to the First Coast Sunday, except for those members who are under investigation.
They were ordered to remain at Camp Lejeune for further questioning.
"Misconduct" is pretty vague and can very well be exceedingly minor.
My guess is charges coming from terrorists.
I know. Someone made a complaint right before the Marines were to come home. Supposedly happened when they were guarding a bridge in Haditha.
Meanwhile in Iraq and Afghanistan every Achmed with an AK 47 is killing everyone on his block....just let the Marine Corps do their job and kill Achmed and forget about being PC....
Meadow Muffin
LOL I love that guy.
We can only wish that would happen!
No doubt they refused to allow a gang of terrorists to torture, murder, and hang all of them from the bridge they were guarding, so now the Marines are guilty of misconduct for depriving some bloodthirsty pieces of filth of their sadistic pleasure. Lord, please save our troops and our country from these PC idiots!
If it was minor they'd be letting their reserve chain of command handle the issue. They should be anyway, at least up to the point where that chain becomes part of an active duty chain.
Why doesn't this Administration just get it over with and hold the entire military forces in Iraq for war crimes? Or maybe President Bush will order another mandatory "sensitivity training" program for the Marines this time around; a program that mandates our brave Marines and soldiers to sing the Iraqi national anthem and get the personal OK from Donald Rumsfeld before squeezing the trigger in combat.
All these accusations, arrests and trials against our brave warriors in Iraq for 'war crimes' and other crimes is neauseating, counterproductive, dangerous, PC, and just plain insane. No wonder recruitment is down; these poor men have to worry more about being charged with a crime by their superiors than they have to worry about the islamofacists.
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