Court Overturns Conviction of Marine Who Urinated on Taliban Corpses

[1bad65]

A military appeals court has overturned the conviction of a former Marine Corps scout sniper involved in desecrating the bodies of enemy fighters in Afghanistan in 2011, finding that the actions of the service's top officer at the time tainted the case.

The decision, by the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals, was handed down Wednesday, five years after the original conviction.

In December 2012, Staff Sgt. Joseph Chamblin was sentenced to 30 days' confinement, docked in pay, and demoted to sergeant for participating in an incident in which multiple Marine snipers attached to 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, urinated on enemy corpses and then posted a video of the act to YouTube.

When the video got public attention, the incident made global headlines, creating a black eye for the Corps and prompting many prominent American leaders to denounce the snipers' actions.

Source, full story:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2...n-corpses.html

[WesternChamp]

disgusting.

[Left Hook Tua]

Should've taken a crap on it too.

[WesternChamp]

Should've taken a crap on it too.

there's a rule you follow.. when the rival is RIP, you leave it at that. there's no point in doing childish stuff to a corpse. if you're that mad, go kill more of them.

[Left Hook Tua]

there's a rule you follow.. when the rival is RIP, you leave it at that. there's no point in doing childish stuff to a corpse. if you're that mad, go kill more of them.

The guy was just having a little fun

Rival? LMFAO

Pieces of garbage

Enemy soldiers are rivals

Taliban, isis, AL qaeda, are human garbage

[WesternChamp]

The guy was just having a little fun

Rival? LMFAO

Pieces of garbage

Enemy soldiers are rivals

Taliban, isis, AL qaeda, are human garbage

so now there's a difference between enemy soldiers and isis, taliban, etc? LOL.. because enemy soldiers is not out there to kill you right?

take it how you want but that's some childish stuff. just go kill more of them if you're that mad. wtf does pissing on a dead body gonna do?

[1bad65]

We did some pretty nasty things to Japanese war dead (and they did much worse, even to live Americans), but back then we won wars.

I'm not condoning it, but you can't start putting your soldiers in prison for doing bad things to dead enemies on a war zone.

[Zaroku]

A military appeals court has overturned the conviction of a former Marine Corps scout sniper involved in desecrating the bodies of enemy fighters in Afghanistan in 2011, finding that the actions of the service's top officer at the time tainted the case.

The decision, by the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals, was handed down Wednesday, five years after the original conviction.

In December 2012, Staff Sgt. Joseph Chamblin was sentenced to 30 days' confinement, docked in pay, and demoted to sergeant for participating in an incident in which multiple Marine snipers attached to 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, urinated on enemy corpses and then posted a video of the act to YouTube.

When the video got public attention, the incident made global headlines, creating a black eye for the Corps and prompting many prominent American leaders to denounce the snipers' actions.

Source, full story:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2...n-corpses.html

Wtf? Promote that marine!

[GhostofDempsey]

The only thing he did wrong was video record it and post it on social media. I couldn't care less that he pissed on one of their dead...or living. He should have stuffed a fistful of pork down their throats too.

[Zaroku]

The only thing he did wrong was video record it and post it on social media. I couldn't care less that he pissed on one of their dead...or living. He should have stuffed a fistful of pork down their throats too.

He should of offered their heads for sale..

I'd of bought one.