Reply #3: Here's an e-mail I got from my partner about this [View All]

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My partner served during the last Gulf war.

I do hope they receive clemency. The BC discharge hits Chief Birt especially hard, because it deprives him of his retirement pension and all VA bennies.

MAJ Kaus was the company commander, and is still in confinement.

One E-4 was busted to E-3. One SFC (E-7) was busted to E-3 (!!!) and locked up for three months. One SGT (E-5) was busted to E-1. Another E-5 and an E-6 are awaiting court-martial (this info is from June).

Apparently, forward units in Iraq had to forage for POL (petroleum, oil & lubricants). Many commanders authorized their troops to drain fuel and oil from abandoned vehicles, both military and civilian. If draining POL from abandoned vehicles is okay, then why not simply use the vehicles themselves?