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Army kicking out decorated Green Beret who stood up for Afghan rape victim
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| August 20, 2015
| Lucas Tomlinson
Posted on 08/20/2015 2:28:37 PM PDT by twister881
The U.S. Army is kicking out a decorated Green Beret after an 11-year Special Forces career, after he got in trouble for shoving an Afghan police commander accused of raping a boy and beating up his mother when she reported the incident.
Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland is described by many of his teammates as the finest soldier they have ever served alongside.
But his Army career changed course during his second deployment to Afghanistan in 2011. After learning an Afghan boy was raped and his mother beaten, Martland and his team leader confronted a local police commander they had trained, armed and paid with U.S. taxpayer dollars. When the man laughed off the incident, they physically confronted him.
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Nothing that the Obama Communist Crime Syndicate does surprises me anymore.
To: twister881
Somebody is going to have to straighten up this man’s army.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:30:20 PM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: twister881
WHOA I thought they crack on milary people
Does Aghan civilans don’t count probably NOT in this admisation
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:30:29 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
To: twister881
Congress sets the rules and regulations of the military...The GOP is charge of it.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:33:22 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: twister881
Men raping children is part of Afghan culture.
Question, who is the pr!ck who decided this soldier needed to be punished? Ought to be named & shamed.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:35:28 PM PDT
by
RginTN
To: twister881
I'd bet it has nothing to do with the Police officer being a police officer and everything to do with a physical assault on a homosexual pedophile.
May Almighty God reward this soldier for standing up for those who were heinously victimized by someone more powerful.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:38:21 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: twister881
Rahman walked away bruised from getting shoved and thrown to the ground, but otherwise okay, according to teammates. But Rahman quickly reported the incident to another Army unit in a nearby village. The next day a U.S. Army helicopter landed and took Quinn and Martland away, ending their work in Kunduz Province. Way too much burning of good men by other soldiers in Obama's Army.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:39:39 PM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: twister881
If Trump offers this guy a job, he locks the nomination.
To: Poison Pill
If Trump offers this guy a job, he locks the nomination.Only if the incident is better publicized. This is the first I've heard of it.
To: twister881
Our military is run by asswipes.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:56:15 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: twister881
Our military is run by asswipes.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:58:16 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: Timber Rattler
Way too much burning of good men by other soldiers in Obama's Army. Agree. Everyone in CYA mode. The OIC of the other unit should've told the boy-raping goat-f***** to get lost.
To: twister881
They should have fragged him.
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posted on
08/20/2015 3:12:23 PM PDT
by
longfellow
(Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
To: miss marmelstein
You’re right and it’s going to be a big job. For starters, everyone in this soldiers chain of commands needs to be court-martialed and dishonorably discharged. It’s just one incidend but you’ve got to start somewhere, and keep it up until the rats are gone.
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posted on
08/20/2015 3:15:44 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: twister881
Seems to me the police commander got off easy just getting shoved...
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posted on
08/20/2015 3:16:06 PM PDT
by
cld51860
(Volo pro veritas)
To: twister881
Just what the hell is going on in the military? First MAJ Jason Brezler and now this. Aren’t there any senior officers with any cajones to put a stop to this B.S.?
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posted on
08/20/2015 3:21:45 PM PDT
by
ManHunter
(You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
To: twister881
Our good decent guys have to witness the moral depravity of the Afghani’s and you wonder why they go off once in awhile?
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posted on
08/20/2015 3:24:11 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: SevenofNine
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posted on
08/20/2015 3:24:25 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.)
To: Theoria
Congress sets the rules and regulations of the military... Really? Please elaborate.
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posted on
08/20/2015 3:25:36 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
To: Theoria
Congress sets the rules and regulations of the military...The GOP is charge of it. So what? With Bonehead and McCommie in charge, Congress will do nothing.
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