Peter1469
06-14-2015, 08:56 PM
Task Force Violent: USMC screwed these guys (http://www.militarytimes.com/longform/military/2015/03/04/task-force-violent-the-unforgiven/23940295/)
This was one of the most effective combat forces in theater. Too effective for the bean counters.
They called themselves Task Force Violent. Recently declassified documents raise troubling questions about the military's effort to send these Marines to prison. A legal tribunal ultimately cleared them of allegations they had mindlessly mowed down innocent Afghans, and exposed failures by senior leaders who sent them into the war zone without clear orders and without being sufficiently outfitted for combat. But the highly publicized ordeal left many of these men shattered — casualties, they say, of a politicized war and the sensational coverage by a media fed a story that sacrificed the truth from Day One, a truth only now coming to light.
This was one of the most effective combat forces in theater. Too effective for the bean counters.
They called themselves Task Force Violent. Recently declassified documents raise troubling questions about the military's effort to send these Marines to prison. A legal tribunal ultimately cleared them of allegations they had mindlessly mowed down innocent Afghans, and exposed failures by senior leaders who sent them into the war zone without clear orders and without being sufficiently outfitted for combat. But the highly publicized ordeal left many of these men shattered — casualties, they say, of a politicized war and the sensational coverage by a media fed a story that sacrificed the truth from Day One, a truth only now coming to light.