R.I.P. soldiers....the spineless little goat boinker of a man who did this will meet his maker one day and he will get his due. I hope he gets his due while in a jail cell as well.
They were airmen, not soldiers. Seems silly, but my guess is they would REALLY not like being called or remembered as “soldiers” any more than a soldier would want to be called a marine.
The sentiment still counts, though. They’ve been putting airmen in infantry roles on convoys with no training for years now.