Everyone focuses on the drone strikes killing civilians, but honestly, during the three tours I put in there, most common way I saw civvies buy it was through "escalation of force" scenarios. Basically, we treated anyone who got too close to our convoys or checkpoints without stopping as a suicide bomber and lit their vehicle up with MG …
Everyone focuses on the drone strikes killing civilians, but honestly, during the three tours I put in there, most common way I saw civvies buy it was through "escalation of force" scenarios. Basically, we treated anyone who got too close to our convoys or checkpoints without stopping as a suicide bomber and lit their vehicle up with MG fire. I seen *a lot* of Iraqi civvies go out this way. A lot of folks don't know about things like the Haditha Massacre either, which is unfortunate, because that was basically a squad of Marines executing 24 civilians with close-range sternum and headshots--some victims as young as 8. The only Marine successfully charged for that war crime was a squad leader who was reduced to the rank of private. That's what happens when you take a Fallujah '04 spearhead infantry unit and recycle them to a different city with only about 6 months stateside in between. ALL the veterans in 3/1 had hardcore PTSD. That came out during our tour in the Haditha Triad following Rep Ruben Gallego's (D-AZ) unit getting pretty fucked up out there the month prior.
Everyone focuses on the drone strikes killing civilians, but honestly, during the three tours I put in there, most common way I saw civvies buy it was through "escalation of force" scenarios. Basically, we treated anyone who got too close to our convoys or checkpoints without stopping as a suicide bomber and lit their vehicle up with MG fire. I seen *a lot* of Iraqi civvies go out this way. A lot of folks don't know about things like the Haditha Massacre either, which is unfortunate, because that was basically a squad of Marines executing 24 civilians with close-range sternum and headshots--some victims as young as 8. The only Marine successfully charged for that war crime was a squad leader who was reduced to the rank of private. That's what happens when you take a Fallujah '04 spearhead infantry unit and recycle them to a different city with only about 6 months stateside in between. ALL the veterans in 3/1 had hardcore PTSD. That came out during our tour in the Haditha Triad following Rep Ruben Gallego's (D-AZ) unit getting pretty fucked up out there the month prior.