MEJA was amended in 2004 to cover contractors working for other agencies that are supporting the military.
I figured I was missing something. Still a fine line as they weren’t working in support of the military, but were working for the Stat Dept. Thanks for the info on the change in the MEJA.
I haven't read the law, but this was a WWPS contract for the State Department, not DoD. I know *several* guys who were there at the time.
They were certainly fired on first. In addition to the non-NATO rounds found at the SANITIZED site, their vehicles were riddled with bullet marks and there are time-stamped recordings of the radio transmissions at the time they began taking fire as proof. I'm wondering why so few stories are reporting and of this exculpatory evidence.
Most of the casualties happened when the TRT (Tact. Response Team) arrived to extract the first vehicle that was ALREADY TAKING FIRE and pinned in the traffic circle.
Did the men respond harshly in a life or death situation? Yes they did. If you put men into a deadly a s**t-storm like that, of course they are going to respond harshly.
These men got hung out to dry by GWB as a token to his Hadji friends.