Soldier gets Silver Star, reprimand for same battle

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by fatbuckRTO

I can guarantee you two things from personal experience:
1) When you're at a COP like that, you don't fail to post sentries. It just won't happen.
2) If they somehow had failed to post sentries, the senior officers looking to cover their own asses by throwing this captain under the bus right now would be screaming that shit from the rooftops.

Not having your experience on it, I'll take your word for that then.

[derf]

There is a huge write up of the whole battle online somehwere. The unit was making a 3 day stop at that village when they got word that there was gong to be an attack, they stayed longer than they were supposed to. They had a ressuply expected the next day. They were attacked by a much larger force than intelligence had said. They won, but there were some KIA.

I wouldnt place the blame on anybody, shit happens in battle, the only thing you should really expect is that the battle plan is gonna go to shit once the first bullets start flying.

The only reason he got a letter of reprimand is because the news has been all over this story and someone is trying to prove put the blame on someone. Two decades ago a few deaths would have been buried deep inside a newspaper where none could read it. Not justifying those deaths its a waste of life but in previous wars we were not able to keep the death tolls nearly as low as it is now thanks to modern aromor and medical tech.