[El Gato]

the orders of my commanding officer is what I was expected to do

So were the guards at Trelinka, Oswiecum and other such places. So were the Japanese soliders who conducted the Battan march.

Again, "I was just following orders" doesn't cut it. Especially not for officers.

[Non-Sequitur]

So were the guards at Trelinka, Oswiecum and other such places. So were the Japanese soliders who conducted the Battan march.

So you equate deploying to Afghanistan as ordered with being a concentration camp guard? Would you also advocate trying every serviceman and woman we have there for crimes against humanity?