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Sergeant Major David Stewart: Using this incident to make a positive change [Continued from Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII and Part VIII.] In Iraq one of my friends screwed up at the beginning of a mission. After his humvee left the...
Tony Yribe: “This incident doesn’t define who I am.” “I did that, Sarge. I killed all those people.” Tony Yribe stopped what he was doing. He looked at Private First Class Steven Green. And he thought, This guy is full of shit. [Continued from Part I, Part II, Part...
Part VII: Eric Lauzier, continued At the end of Part VI, Eric Lauzier had discovered two of his soldiers participated in the Yusufiyah murders. The criminals and Lauzier's best friend were arrested, and Lauzier watched as his platoon and company began to unravel....
Eric Lauzier: “They took my honor.” War Crime, Hard Choice and Harder Consequences, Part VI [Continued from Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV and Part V.] First platoon soldier on guard at the Alamo bridge Staff Sergeant Eric Lauzier heard the gunfire at the Alamo....
Sergeant John Diem: "We can only do our best to deserve the public's trust." John Diem in Iraq Sergeant John Diem had four hours to think about his decision. War Crimes, Hard Choices, and Harder Consequences: John Diem's Story [Continued from Part I, Part II, Part III...
"If you leave him out there, they'll kill him," his Battalion Commander was told by a junior NCO. Justin Watt secretly reported several members of his platoon for committing the rape and murders, and was desperately hoping he wouldn't be found out. War Crimes, Hard...
Justin Watt: "I was literally just doing my duty." Justin Watt in the Triangle of Death [Continued from Part I and Part II.] Justin Watt’s personal turning point came barely a month into the deployment. He was on duty at a patrol base when the battalion commander...
PFC Steven Green had just told Sergeant Tony Yribe he murdered an entire family. [Continued from Part I] To put it mildly, Green wasn’t the most credible guy in the platoon. Yribe didn’t believe him. However Green, who had not gone on the patrol to the house, was able...
You’re twenty-three years old. You’re a lowly Private First Class with less than two years in the Army. You’ve been in Iraq eight months. Your platoon is overextended, barely able to cover all the patrols and static posts you’ve been assigned. Extra missions take what...
What do you do if you're the Mad Duo and a new military movie comes along? You point Chris Hernandez at it and say Sic 'em! Chris was actually canonized as the patron saint of wry scorn; if you read Breach-Bang-Clear regularly you already knows how he feels about...
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