What the fuck?

[Pell City Tiger]

Shoot, burn/mutilate corpses, and hang them from a bridge; you should get more than a bloody lip. However, the 3 SEALs that captured this piece of shit are now facing a court martial.

This is absolutely fucking ridiculous.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576646,00.html

[Saniflush]

Words cannot describe my anger at this.  Just another example that the politically correctness has completely infiltrated our upper military.

[Townhallsavoy]

[GH2001]

This is what happens when politicians (and the UN) get TOO involved in military affairs. See Korea, Vietnam, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Mogadishu. I personally think its by design.

[AUTiger1]

Did I read that article correctly?  Surely I was imagining that it stated 3 SEAL's were going to be court-martialed for capturing a murderous terrorist and giving him a bloody lip?  Please tell me that I didn't read that!

[Saniflush]

Did I read that article correctly?  Surely I was imagining that it stated 3 SEAL's were going to be court-martialed for capturing a murderous terrorist and giving him a bloody lip?  Please tell me that I didn't read that!

You read it correctly.


They should be getting a parade.

[Snaggletiger]

I said the same thing AUTiger1 said.  I actually went back over the article to see what the hell I was missing.  I mean there had to be a part in there about castrating the guy with a rusty hacksaw or something.  Going through a Court-Martial hearing for this?  Have they lost their damn minds?

[Saniflush]

I said the same thing AUTiger1 said.  I actually went back over the article to see what the hell I was missing.  I mean there had to be a part in there about castrating the guy with a rusty hacksaw or something.  Going through a Court-Martial hearing for this?  Have they lost their damn minds?

Well the court martial part they don't really have a choice in.  They refused non-judicial punishment so that forces court martial proceeding to be held.  That I get.

The fact that they were even being brought up for non judicial punishment in the first place is an absolute joke.

[AUTiger1]

Someone with military background help me out here.   Even if they are found not guilty, will this not pretty much seal their fate and their military careers be over with?

I was telling a guy in the office about this, he read the article and wondered why they were being punished instead of receiving commendations.

[Saniflush]

Someone with military background help me out here.   Even if they are found not guilty, will this not pretty much seal their fate and their military careers be over with?

I was telling a guy in the office about this, he read the article and wondered why they were being punished instead of receiving commendations.

Ordinarily I would say that it will hamper them but being SEALS I don't think it will.  Plus imagine the doors that will open for them due to name recognition in the private sector. 

[bottomfeeder]

Maybe they're being court martialed for not killing the bastards.

yep, illegal combatants are subject to summary execution upon capture, yet libbys have forgotten any history of this and asigned their own so they can protect vast areas of despotism since is how their power is derived

On December 18, 1944, 3 German soldiers participating in Col Otto Skorzeny’s “Operation GREIF” were captured wearing American uniforms (making them illegal combatants) in the Ardennes forest. On Christmas Day, 1944, seven days after capture, all three were executed by firing squad, after facing court martial. We have lost our way since then…

[Come Honor Face]

I'll say this.  These guys are SEALS so they know what they're doing.  The refused NJP because they know that it will cause a shit storm.  They'll be looked after.

But... as i'm sitting here, it will only be a matter of time before the military as a whole finally says enough is enough.  All it's gonna take is an event similar like this, maybe in a bigger magnitude, but it will change America.  With all of the strain on the military, combine that with the VA pissing away benefit monies or slowing payment times, stress of 5, 6, 7 deployments, politicians butting their heads in the business one too many times, countless families being broken up because of said deployments, lost faith in upper echelon commands... it's all going to come to a head someday.

Best analogy I can give about this is there is only so many times you can poke the angry mutt with a stick when he's in a cage before he gets out.

Shit makes me sick.

Makes you wonder why we still swear an Oath to protect the Constitution.

[Saniflush]

I'll say this.  These guys are SEALS so they know what they're doing.  The refused NJP because they know that it will cause a shit storm.  They'll be looked after.

But... as i'm sitting here, it will only be a matter of time before the military as a whole finally says enough is enough.  All it's gonna take is an event similar like this, maybe in a bigger magnitude, but it will change America.  With all of the strain on the military, combine that with the VA pissing away benefit monies or slowing payment times, stress of 5, 6, 7 deployments, politicians butting their heads in the business one too many times, countless families being broken up because of said deployments, lost faith in upper echelon commands... it's all going to come to a head someday.

Best analogy I can give about this is there is only so many times you can poke the angry mutt with a stick when he's in a cage before he gets out.

Shit makes me sick.

Makes you wonder why we still swear an Oath to protect the Constitution.

What's the Constitution? 
Oh you mean that document that was written by Southerners and destroyed by Yankees.

[dallaswareagle]

As retired military we are always told to get out in the community and talk about the virtues of the military. Hell, we get a cash bonus if we talk someone into going to the recruiting station and they join. Under this current administration I would not let me dog join the Army. This is strickley for political bullshit.

[Tiger Wench]

If found innocent, I think they will come out ok.  From another article on the same fucked up story:

A civilian lawyer for one of three SEALs said his client and the other SEALs declined a nonjudicial resolution to the case, a step sometimes called a "captain's mast." The servicemen say they did not harm the detainee in any way and they want their names cleared in a court-martial so they can continue their careers in the Navy, said the attorney, Neil Puckett.

Because the charges against Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew McCabe, Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe and Petty Officer Julio Heurtas are the military equivalent of misdemeanors, they will go before a special court-martial, which is for less serious offenses than those heard in a general court-martial. If found guilty, they could be sentenced to a maximum of a year in a military prison, demotion to the lowest Navy rank, a cut in pay and a bad conduct discharge.

But if found innocent of all charges, they would be able to continue their careers with no record of the case in their personnel files.

That sorry bastard should be on his face thanking Allah that he is still vertical.  Punched him, my ass...

[CCTAU]

Can't comment. I feel the need to puke.