[SGT T.]

Look, I AM NOT on the Army's public affairs payroll, and I feel like I should point out a few facts about this whole mess. First of all, for the dogs, driving over a dog in a Bradley would be next to impossible. That is a tracked vehicle that makes a TON of noise, and its not really agile enough to hit a running dog while moving. Not to mention the extreme discomfort that would be felt by all the troops inside if the driver were to "hold the right/left" at 30mph. You might even flip the thing trying that maneuver. In other news..

The rest of the stuff could be true. Really. I mean, most PVT's are young, 18-20 and for a kid that young sitting at a DFAC (thats Army for Dinning Facility) with other kids and seeing a woman with a burns and scars on her face, yeah they are probably going to say something. Welcome to adolescence. And what was the other one... oh yeah! Playing with a skull of an Iraqi baby. I find it hard to believe. Most of the time when we find remains, we call the Iraqi Police and they deal with it. (Some of us think they are quick to respond to those calls because they put them there in the first place, but I digress). Anyway, when we find a body we minimize contact with it, doing only the necessary identification stuff and then we leave it alone. I'm not saying that this didn't happen, it IS possible, I will admit that.

But the troop wrote a sworn statement. That kinda turns it all to poo right there. If he said it didn't happen, then swore to it, under oath, then thats got to be believable. The military didn't attack him, he wasn't placed on restriction, or even given an article 15. What DID happen is they they took away his laptop for a while, and ordered him to stop talking to the media because he was under investigation. Does that mean he didn't have internet access? Probably not. Does that mean that he couldn't call home? No. He still got his two 15 min phone calls a week. Now I am sure his chain of command will be rough on him for a while, probably pulling guard duty more than usual, but thats the price you pay for upsetting the chain of command. If I called my 1SG and told him I was talking to the press about what I did outside the wire, I could expect the same treatment, even if I had done nothing wrong, because now he had to take time out of his day to investigate, instead of doing his job of taking care of his soldiers.

The accounts have been proven false because he wrote a sworn statement saying they were false. So who are you going to believe, him or...him?