An Army officer who was accused of tracking down and killing an unarmed bomb-making suspect in Afghanistan...There's no such thing as an unarmed bomb-maker. Thanks Kartographer.
I’ve been following this for awhile on various milblogs.
I think, but aint full sure, that the real reason for the punishment is because of failure to follow orders that led to the event, and then false testimony after.
Of course, if he didn’t break orders, the bomb maker would have been able to kill more of our own and if he didn’t give false testimony after, he’d be in prison now, most likely.
Imo, anyone who has a problem with the killing of a jihadiscum bomb maker by any means what-so-ever would benefit from an arrest, trial and execution for treason. But, I’m often told I’m rather unreasonable about such things.