Official: Marines in Afghanistan video identified, expected to face charges

FoxNews.com ^ | /13/12 | Fox,Justin Fishel and AP

[ColdOne]

Meanwhile, the Marine Corps has appointed a three-star general to decide what disciplinary action to take against the four Marine snipers.

Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser will name another officer to lead an internal Marine Corps investigation. That investigation will be in addition to a criminal probe already under way by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Waldhauser, who is commander of Marine Corps Forces Central Command, will determine how to proceed once both investigations are completed.

NCIS Communications Director Maryann Cummings also said her department's probe is still "in its very early stages."

"At this point, NCIS has identified and talked to the four Marines in the video. All four are currently in the U.S.. NCIS investigators are still tracking down information on the individual(s) who created and posted the video as well as initiating computer forensic techniques on the video itself," Cummings said. "NCIS conducts a wide range of law enforcement missions for the Department of the Navy. As always, the goal is to gather every possible fact, put the facts into context, and present the results of the investigation to a convening authority to take the appropriate action. NCIS is committed to conducting a comprehensive and thorough investigation."

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and military leaders have promised an exhaustive investigation and sought to contain the damage at home and abroad.

[khnyny]

Okay, here is a cynical thought....Obama wants to eliminate 1/2 billion US troops...let’s paint US troops as neanderthals, murderers, scum...

Let’s use the media to leak stories to sway public opinion - “oh yes, the military is bad, let’s cut 500,000 soldiers - oh joy Obama is cutting that dreaded pissing on dead bodies military!”

[Loyal Sedition]

Umm, is your reply really directed at me?

If so, read my post again, more slowly.

I never stated that the Muslim terrorist were innocent.

I did suggest that small acts of vengeance not be posted to the web.

I did try to remind folk here that the Muslims have a long history of abusing OUR soldiers remains, going at least as far back as the Tripoli operations.
Those bodies remain in Tripoli to this day.
A short Google search will reveal details of what was done to OUR dead by the barbarians, including allowing them to be desecrated/consumed by dogs.

A little whizzing on some Taliban corpses is NOTHING by comparison.

[central_va]

On February 1, 1943, Life magazine published a photograph taken by Ralph Morse during the Guadalcanal campaign showing a decapitated Japanese head that US marines had propped up below the gun turret of a tank. Life received letters of protest from people "in disbelief that American soldiers were capable of such brutality toward the enemy." The editors responded that "war is unpleasant, cruel, and inhuman. And it is more dangerous to forget this than to be shocked by reminders." However, the image of the decapitated head generated less than half the amount of protest letters that an image of a mistreated cat in the very same issue received.[10]

[Elle Bee]

they can shoot you and your friends - blow them up even - and you can shoot them - but you can't piss on them?

.

[colorado tanker]

I predict this is what they will try to use, Article 134, the "General Article."

"Though not specifically mentioned in this chapter, all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses not capital, of which persons subject to this chapter may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, special or summary court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and shall be punished at the discretion of that court."

[Eaker]

I’d like to piss on the person who shot this video.

[central_va]

I wish just ONE Tea Party Congressmen would complain about how this investigation of USMC urination is a waste of tax payer dollars.

[central_va]

What a waste of time and money. I protest. The investigation is trivial.

[Venturer]

No women, no beer, far from home , might get you legs blown off any minute and some General wants to hang you for pissing on the enemy.

Thats todays military. It’s a miracle we still have men who want to join.

[colorado tanker]

I couldn't agree more. They should have been given an Article 15, reprimanded and told not to do it again (at least not on camera).

But given that it's in press, and given who is in the White House and Pentagon, those guys will be dragged through the whole process.

[Chainmail]

I am a bad man: my wife was on the phone with her mother and I yelled "Honey, do you have a dead Taliban? I REALLY have to go to the john!".

She does question my sanity occasionally...

Can't believe Tom Waldhauser is running this witch hunt. Used to be a pretty solid guy.

[Palladin]

Much ado about a piddling matter.

[DFG]

General Patton’s well publicized piss into the Rhine River would get him court-martialed in today’s military.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2832255/posts

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/EasternGermany/Buchenwald/GeneralPatton.html

[Monitor]

That reminds me. Anyone know where they buried that sack of sh!t Ted Kennedy? And if there is a beer depot near by?

[iamweasle]

If they are pushed out of the marines I say they be sent to Congress.

[SkyDancer]

That can cover a lot of indiscretions. They could use that on some servicemen going to Hooters as an example.

[iamweasle]

That reminds me. Anyone know where they buried that sack of sh!t Ted Kennedy? And if there is a beer depot near by?

Bucket list

[Repeat Offender]

One minute those guys are trying to kill you and the next moment you’re not supposed to want to piss on them...ain’t PC dhiminitude great?

When pansies vote for pansies, they want pansies to protect them because they think the rest of the world is just as big a pansy as they are.....and yes of course, the word I wanted to use was pansy and not something that would get me banned.

[cmomm44]

NO-—they are going to be tried for being ‘stupid’ (making a video and then allowing it to get out)-—remember, ‘there is no Statute of Limitations on Stupidity’-—seems we have an oversupply these days, even in our military members

[dfwgator]