It turns out that one of the mitigating factors in these investigations was the understanding by U.S. military brass that they never should have left these soldiers on such long combat tours in Vietnam, and they undermined the investigations to keep the soldiers from facing legal trouble for things that happened in circumstances that they never should have been involved in.
Yeah. And the fact that prosecutions would reflect badly on the Brass careers is even more important.
I went to a speech by one of the officers who investigated My Lai several years ago. He said William Calley’s intelligence score was so low would not have been drafted just a few years earlier much less been an officer.