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**MrGunjMan_** · 03-22-2011, 02:03 PM

I don't know about your military training but mine never involved a "green light" for indiscriminate killing.

Here's the deal, one of the symptoms of PTSD is that you may very well stop seeing others as human. It's a defense mechanism. When the brain has trouble processing abominable things it quite often simply shuts off that function. Some people have this symptom to a greater degree than others and shit like posing with bodies, taking "trophies", etc. become the result. It's an ugly part of life but it happens.

Based on the tiny bit of information we have on this issue I would certainly suggest that these young men be yanked out of combat and, after a court martial, be given treatment in confinement. This, from the facts presented, was probably murder under Article 118(3) of the UCMJ and should be punished as such. I couldn't say, based on what I have read, whether the crime rises to the level where capital punishment could be considered.

Well said. We send our young to live through gruesome sights and require them to do terrible things to other beings, and then then expect them to always act rationally. It just isn't always possible. I'd personally rather see a mental evaluation before any court martial, so that they might be judged more fairly.

This cannot be compared to Abu Ghraib, as those were MPs that had not been subjected to wars stresses nor PTSD conditions.

03-22-2011, 02:03 PM	#32
MrGunjMan_ Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 470 Senior Member	I don't know about your military training but mine never involved a "green light" for indiscriminate killing. Here's the deal, one of the symptoms of PTSD is that you may very well stop seeing others as human. It's a defense mechanism. When the brain has trouble processing abominable things it quite often simply shuts off that function. Some people have this symptom to a greater degree than others and shit like posing with bodies, taking "trophies", etc. become the result. It's an ugly part of life but it happens. Based on the tiny bit of information we have on this issue I would certainly suggest that these young men be yanked out of combat and, after a court martial, be given treatment in confinement. This, from the facts presented, was probably murder under Article 118(3) of the UCMJ and should be punished as such. I couldn't say, based on what I have read, whether the crime rises to the level where capital punishment could be considered. Well said. We send our young to live through gruesome sights and require them to do terrible things to other beings, and then then expect them to always act rationally. It just isn't always possible. I'd personally rather see a mental evaluation before any court martial, so that they might be judged more fairly. This cannot be compared to Abu Ghraib, as those were MPs that had not been subjected to wars stresses nor PTSD conditions.
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