These Marines were pissing on dead enemies - which is forbidden going back to the Lieber Code of 1863.
Art. 47.
Crimes punishable by all penal codes, such as arson, murder, maiming, assaults, highway robbery, theft, burglary, fraud, forgery, and rape, if committed by an American soldier in a hostile country against its inhabitants, are not only punishable as at home, but in all cases in which death is not inflicted, the severer punishment shall be preferred.
Art.71.
Whoever intentionally inflicts additional wounds on an enemy already wholly disabled, or kills such an enemy, or who orders or encourages soldiers to do so, shall suffer death, if duly convicted, whether he belongs to the Army of the United States, or is an enemy captured after having committed his misdeed.
Art. 75.
Prisoners of war are subject to confinement or imprisonment such as may be deemed necessary on account of safety, but they are to be subjected to no other intentional suffering or indignity. The confinement and mode of treating a prisoner may be varied during his captivity according to the demands of safety.
The UCMJ:
893. ART. 93. CRUELTY AND MALTREATMENT
Any person subject to this chapter who is guilty of cruelty toward, or oppression or maltreatment of, any person subject to his orders shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
912. ART. 112. DRUNK ON DUTY
Any person subject to this chapter other than a sentinel or look-out, who is found drunk on duty, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
934. ART. 134. GENERAL ARTICLE
Though not specifically mentioned in this chapter, all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses not capital, of which persons subject to this chapter may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, special or summary court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and shall be punished at the discretion of that court.
So, as you can see, there is a real difference between a symbolic act of defiance and desecration of a dead enemy. Patton understood this point. Patton fought hard but fair.
You’ll have to be more explicit on the urination thing.
What part of what you posted covers urination on a corpse?
Not being argumentative, really.
“all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses not capital, of which persons subject to this chapter may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, special or summary court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and shall be punished at the discretion of that court.”
I haven’t seen the film or whatever it is, but I understand a couple Marines were taking a leak on dead Taliban. I doubt that they cared. They were dead.
Above is the only thing I can see that might apply.
So, would breaking wind towards Mecca be an offense subjecting a Marine or soldier to discipline?
How about objecting to sharing a hole with a guy who has been staring at your a**?
In any event, particularly if the matter is as serious as the MSM would have us believe, the buck stops at the Commander-in-Chief’s desk. I forget his name.
What do any of these articles have to do with pissing on dead camel jockeys?
Fair? FAIR?! FAIR?!!!
Is that what you want?
Fair?!
Is war just a boardgame to you?
And what the hell do you know about Patton and his battalion anyway? Were you there?
I don’t see a single reference to anything done to a dead body.