From the news wire:
Link to the Entire Article.
These rules are in place so that when, and if, a combatant is captured alive, they are treated as prisoners and not as animals to be slaughtered. Every officer knows this. Every serviceman knows this. It's a Code so that prisoners are not summarily executed. Which is what happened to this prisoner.
Its very simple; you want your own soldiers who are taken into custody to have certain protections.
You, as an officer, have to adhere to these rules. The Code of Conduct. It's that simple.
"“We’re going to take care of our warriors and I will always stick up for our great fighters,” Mr. Trump told a rally in Florida as he depicted the military hierarchy as part of the "deep state" he vowed to dismantle. “People can sit there in air-conditioned offices and complain, but you know what? It doesn’t matter to me whatsoever.
Link to the Entire Article.
These rules are in place so that when, and if, a combatant is captured alive, they are treated as prisoners and not as animals to be slaughtered. Every officer knows this. Every serviceman knows this. It's a Code so that prisoners are not summarily executed. Which is what happened to this prisoner.
Its very simple; you want your own soldiers who are taken into custody to have certain protections.
You, as an officer, have to adhere to these rules. The Code of Conduct. It's that simple.
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Working my way through the thicket of the American political scene. I am trying to not put any of that up on this blog EVER again. Meh!