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<blockquote data-quote="Randy Gartner" data-source="post: 3350" data-attributes="member: 104"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/marines-urinate-corpses-video-afghanistan_n_1200513.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/marines-urinate-corpses-video-afghanistan_n_1200513.html</a>I&#039;m a Navy Veteran of the Vietnam War. I never saw combat like these guys did,but as a former Jr Vice Commander of our local VFW,I have spent alot of time with guys who have walked in their shoes. Not one of Vet that I have talked to,thinks that these guys should be court marshalled for this. Here&#039;s the sentiment.We train 18 and 19 year old kids to become killers.We send them to war doing multiple tours, watching their buddies get killed and maimed.Then,we expect them to be sensitive? Our enemies do things far worse like kidnap,torture and behead people and the press and our own government is silent. Look, what these guys did was wrong,but they shouldn&#039;t go to Leavenworth or get dishonorably discharged.These guys volunteered to defend our freedoms. We need to stand up for them and tell our elected officials to do the same.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Randy Gartner, post: 3350, member: 104"] [url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/marines-urinate-corpses-video-afghanistan_n_1200513.html[/url] I'm a Navy Veteran of the Vietnam War. I never saw combat like these guys did,but as a former Jr Vice Commander of our local VFW,I have spent alot of time with guys who have walked in their shoes. Not one of Vet that I have talked to,thinks that these guys should be court marshalled for this. Here's the sentiment.We train 18 and 19 year old kids to become killers.We send them to war doing multiple tours, watching their buddies get killed and maimed.Then,we expect them to be sensitive? Our enemies do things far worse like kidnap,torture and behead people and the press and our own government is silent. Look, what these guys did was wrong,but they shouldn't go to Leavenworth or get dishonorably discharged.These guys volunteered to defend our freedoms. We need to stand up for them and tell our elected officials to do the same. [/QUOTE]

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