Is this anyway to treat a hero?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....cape-speaks-time.html

/// The extraordinary case against 31-year-old Corporal C — whose identity cannot be revealed because he took part in top secret operations — has taken more than two years to reach court martial, at a cost to the taxpayer of more than £300,000. ///

/// On Monday, the court martial finally began. It took the judge only until Wednesday to throw out the case, describing the evidence against him as ‘weak and tenuous’. ///

He should now sue the MOD, for loss of his livelihood, and his honour, others have sued for much less.

[excelsior-1]

i agree with you .... awful treatment

[FredPuli43]

If he'd punched anothe NCO, even a sergeant, the Army wouldn't have had a court martial. In practice, the Army takes a casual approach to such assaults, thinking that if a man hasn't got the spirit to get involved he isn't the kind of man to be much use in a war.


The attitude of the Army was summed up by a brigadier who was sitting on a court martial. The soldier had got a gun and was drunkenly chasing a sergeant. He shot several times, but missed. The brigadier asked "What's wrong with this man?". On receiving a reply about the soldier's history, the brigadier bellowed "Not him, the SERGEANT ! Must be something wrong with the fellow if a soldier wants to shoot him!"

That the Department of Legal Services went so far as to persist with this Court Martial after an earlier ruling on the inadequacy of the evidence suggests a thinking that public relations relating to Afghanis is more important than justice.

[emmie]

It also sends out the wrong message to those already in the armed services, or those wishing to join. It may well discourage future recruits, and those in, ready to quit.

[jake-the-peg]

Yes well you should understand the army's sensitivity after some of their "heros" beat and kicked a hotel receptionist to death

[emmie]

they are doing a job, and may not all be whiter than white, but many don't come back from this job, and those bad apples are usually weeded out and court martialled.

[andy-hughes]

The fact is - conduct in the army, however laudible, is not a credit system.

You do not store up points by being a good solider to mitigate in circumstances where you behave in a manner other than that proscribed by regulations.

It appears that this individual broke the rules, and his conduct is being investigated appropriately.

The fact that the Taliban suspect was allegedly running away, or that the soldier has won medals, or the cost of the trial, are all irrelavent.