A War’s Impossible Mission
War Crimes Art 32 hearing ended with the command agreeing to resolve the case at a Commanding General’s Article 15 Non-judicial punishment rather than a general court-martial. The case revealed how thinly spread and poorly supported our soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan really are. Neal Puckett traveled to Afghanistan in December to represent an Army company commander who was charged with abusing detainees during tactical questioning designed to gather information that would keep the detainees in custody. Intelligence indicated that the Afghan workers on his base were giving early warning of U.S. operations to Taliban fighters. The unit had suffered frequent casualties on routine patrols and the sources of information about those patrols were trusted local nationals working on the base.
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