I'm a Vietnam vet and 4 yrs in Iraq as a contractor who travels with military outside the wire and have spent several weeks at a time with them on convoys and patrols mounted and dismounted and have stayed with them in a remote
location inside the cities.
I find this laughable! this is not a training exercise, if this was to happen can you imagine the liability of these 2 and not counting the other members of the patrol. I can guarantee no one not a private, platoon Sgt or leader would even think of a stunt like this that would jeopardize the safety and the integrity of the mission. If these two or anyone on that mission would have gone down for any reason there would be hell to pay and somebodies career would have ended that day, not counting the law suit to follow.
So you think Washburn is probably lying about the incident or embellishing the real facts? Now there's a surprise.
Maybe what he meant to say was that the soldier(s) he had a disagreement with stuck him in a latrine and tied the door shut and left him inside it all night, causing him to have nightmares - to this day?
Who knows. I am reminded of the old Saturday Night Live skits with Jon Lovitz playing Tommy Flanagan, "Yeah, that's the ticket."