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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Army investigators recommended disciplinary action against about two dozen reservists who refused orders to deliver fuel along a dangerous convoy route in Iraq, officials said on Tuesday. Four or five members of the 343rd Quartermaster Company could face courts-martial on unspecified criminal charges, said Army officials who asked not to be identified. The rest were expected to get administrative punishment, which could include demotion, loss of pay or a reprimand, the officials said. Members of the unit disobeyed orders to take their unarmored fuel tankers on a supply run from Tallil in southeastern Iraq to the...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The grandfather of an Army Reserve soldier whose platoon refused to deliver supplies in Iraq said his grandson told him Saturday that he and other soldiers had been detained by military authorities but were later released. Meanwhile, military officials said commanders reassigned five members of the unit. Some in the platoon had told relatives they refused to deliver tainted helicopter fuel in poorly maintained vehicles by traveling a dangerous supply route without an armed escort. The Army is investigating up to 19 members of the platoon, which is part of the 343rd Quartermaster Company based in Rock...