[RedRover]

[lilycicero]

1.) If Mendoza lied about his citizenship status and fraudulently enlisted in the Marine Corps; 2.) If Mendoza had already been convicted of two or more crimes.

I'd like to place 20 down on #2 please.

[Marine_Uncle]

Thanks for the ping. The truth of what went on continues to show the Marines did nothing more then carry out routine missions with no britches in the ROE.
The NCIS had better pay for this travesty big time.

[jazusamo]

Another good piece by Nat Helms.

I believe we’ll hear a lot more about LCpl Mendoza should any of these Marines go to court-martial and he testifies for the prosecution but we’ll hear it from defense attorneys.

[dynachrome]

Why so long for this to come out?
I don’t want to go down the tinfoil hat road, but WTF?

[brityank]

I don't know where, but I firmly recall Conlin stating that "in his opinion" that Chessani should have been out in the field instead of "looking at grainy images at the CP".

Seems we now have confirmation that they were anything but "grainy images" and gave him and the rest of his chain of command a far better tactical vision than could be had by radio riding around from hot-spot to hot-spot. And if everyone up to and including Mathis could have monitored real-time, and I'm sure watched replays -- WHY THE HELL ARE THESE MEN ON TRIAL? Winter and Walker both deserve to walk the plank.

[Gene Eric]

>> In most jurisdictions the court would call that type of behavior coercion, she said.

And politically expedient.

Thanks for the ongoing pings Red!