[jauque]

It isn't a game over there. You get over there and see the shit that these motherfuckers will do to you and one day you just say fuck em. Bad shit happens in war. I say "Do unto others, what they do to you"

[whittle]

Say cheese

[Billthegravedigger]

Who said this shit the soilders did to civillians was even remotely justifiable ? I didn't, I think it was sick and wrong myself. I was just saying war turns you into a mindfuck, because it does.

I know this isn't the Vietnamese war we are fighting, I just mentioned it as way for people to understand the shit that soilders have to deal with. When a child comes at you and yours with a damn pineapple grenade, what will you do ? Let everyone die, or kill the child before he kills you ?

In that situation, was it justifiable to kill the child ? And even if it was, would it still not fuck your head up for the rest of your days ? It is never right to kill civillians, especially when they are unarmed. I was just saying war will skullfuck your mind, and these guys had some serious issues. Unless we are them, we wont ever know for sure. Did they see all of their best friends get killed in front of them and snap ? Were they acting out of frustration because of an invisable enemy ?

Who knows for sure ? With shit like seeing all your friends die, trying to fight a cowardly bitch of an enemy that hides behind women and children and tells them they will kill them if they tell our soilders anything, how much could you take ? It doesn't make it right, nor is it an excuse. I am just saying war fucks your head up, and as long as there is war, shit like this will happen from time to time.

[MeMyselfandI]

Just in case nobody has seen this in the news...Gibbs was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole in 10 years...

Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington (CNN) -- Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs has been sentenced to life in military prison with eligibility for parole in 10 years.
A military court-martial Thursday found Gibbs guilty of murdering three Afghan civilians, illegally cutting off pieces of their corpses to keep as "souvenirs" and planting weapons to make the men appear as if they were Taliban fighters killed in legitimate firefights.
He was reduced in rank to private and ordered to forfeit all pay and benefits. Gibbs already has served 547 days of pre-trial confinement, which will be subtracted from the 10-year sentence.
"He said they were all dirty savages," prosecutor Maj. Andre Leblanc said at Gibbs' sentencing hearing.
"He is the savage, not the innocent Afghans he murdered. It is monstrous. What kind of savagery does it take to do this? To cut a finger off a victim and show it to people? This is a savage being"
Gibbs' attorney, Phillip Stackhouse, had asked the court for a sentence of life with parole so Gibbs would have the opportunity to be with his now-3-year-old son again.
"He has a long time to reflect on his life, what he has done and what he wants to do in the future," Stackhouse said.
Gibbs is the highest ranking of five soldiers charged with being part of a rogue "kill squad" that targeted civilians. Another seven soldiers also were charged with lesser crimes including abusing drugs, keeping "off the books" weapons and intimidating a fellow soldier not to speak out against the platoon's alleged killings.
Gibbs had pleaded not guilty.
A prosecutor described Gibbs as a "recruiting poster" soldier. But the tall, clean-cut Gibbs and the "kill squad" he was convicted of leading turned into a public-relations nightmare for the military.
"Sgt. Gibbs had a charisma, he had a 'follow me' personality," Maj. Robert Stelle, a prosecutor in the case, told the court in closing arguments Wednesday. "But it was all a bunch of crap, he had his own mission: murder and depravity."
The murders Gibbs is accused of committing took place over a period of five months last year, while Gibbs led the 3rd Platoon of the Army¹s 5th Stryker Brigade in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
Selling a fake engagement as a real engagement, that's what they were doing
Maj. Robert Stelle, prosecutor
Gibbs' platoon was tasked with patrolling small villages in the area to build relationships with an Afghan population wary of the U.S. presence in their country. Instead, prosecutors said Gibbs and a small group of rogue soldiers allegedly plotted to murder civilians and then planted weapons on them so they appeared to be Taliban attackers.
"Selling a fake engagement as a real engagement, that's what they were doing," Stelle told the court.
In court testimony, Gibbs said he did not execute anyone. Prosecutors said Gibbs participated in the killings of three unarmed civilians: two farmers and a village cleric.
Gibbs said he killed one of the men, but he claimed it was in self-defense. However, the staff sergeant admitted to ripping and cutting off fingers of all three men he was charged with killing. He kept the body parts, he said, to give to soldiers he favored or to intimidate soldiers he disliked.
"I was numb to the situation," Gibbs told the court about why he had taken the body parts. "I wasn't thinking; it's sickening. I am embarrassed."
Gibbs also admitted to posing for photos with bodies against military regulations.
"People wanted to prove they were there," Gibbs replied when asked by his attorney why the soldiers took the photos. The Army later apologized after the photos were leaked to the press.
Gibbs appeared shocked after the verdict was read, and his wife, Army Spec. Chelsy Gibbs, began to cry. According to court records, she filed for divorce from Staff Sgt. Gibbs in August and asked for guardianship of their toddler son.
The panel of three officers and two enlisted soldiers started deliberating in a military courtroom near Tacoma shortly before 10 a.m. (1 p.m. ET) and returned its verdict around 3 p.m. (6 p.m. ET).
Phillip Stackhouse, Gibbs' defense attorney, had argued other soldiers were framing his client. Three soldiers pleaded guilty to the killings and agreed to testify against Gibbs as part of plea deals.
"What if there is no hard evidence other than what you have heard from that witness stand?" Stackhouse said Wednesday. Some witnesses also admitted to smoking hashish they obtained from Afghan translators. Their testimony, Stackhouse said, "came under a cloud of hash."
Stackhouse argued Gibbs wasn't where other witnesses said he was during the engagements. And, according to Stackhouse, in February 2010 Gibbs couldn't have smuggled an AK-47 in his backpack into a village where prosecutors said he then planted the assault rifle on the body of an Afghan man he had killed. Grasping an AK-47, Stackhouse showed the rifle would not fully fit into a soldier's backpack.
Prosecutors countered that Gibbs had used a model of the rifle that has a shorter muzzle and could be concealed.

[Faline]

I was just about to add the update
thanks

[Gregore Mortis]

Originally Posted by Kelly ↗

I was just about to add the update
thanks

Gang bangers being all they can be in the army..

[Red_Solodkaya]

Good thing I keep my photos from overseas private...

[horatio]

[idaho]

This could be you if you f*** with the US

[MeMyselfandI]

Originally Posted by Kelly ↗

I was just about to add the update
thanks

not a problem..do what I can to help out around here