Soldier Found Guilty in Afghan Thrill-Killings

[Yurt]

Soldier Found Guilty in Afghan Thrill-Killings

A U.S. Army soldier accused of exhorting his bored underlings to slaughter three civilians for sport was convicted of murder, conspiracy and all other charges Thursday in one of the most gruesome war crimes cases to emerge from the Afghan war.

Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs, of Billings, Mont., was the highest ranking of five soldiers charged in the deaths of the unarmed men during patrols in Kandahar province early last year. At his seven-day court martial at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle, the 26-year-old acknowledged cutting fingers off corpses and yanking out a victim's tooth to keep as war trophies, "like keeping the antlers off a deer you'd shoot."


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/10...#ixzz1dMPVLKpY

war is hell, actions by despicable men like this only make it worse.

[Chapel The Evergreen]

Soldier Found Guilty in Afghan Thrill-Killings

A U.S. Army soldier accused of exhorting his bored underlings to slaughter three civilians for sport was convicted of murder, conspiracy and all other charges Thursday in one of the most gruesome war crimes cases to emerge from the Afghan war.

Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs, of Billings, Mont., was the highest ranking of five soldiers charged in the deaths of the unarmed men during patrols in Kandahar province early last year. At his seven-day court martial at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle, the 26-year-old acknowledged cutting fingers off corpses and yanking out a victim's tooth to keep as war trophies, "like keeping the antlers off a deer you'd shoot."


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/10...#ixzz1dMPVLKpY

war is hell, actions by despicable men like this only make it worse.

People often think of the military as some sort of alien race, where its members are a completely different people who don't act like regular citizens. This perception is incredibly wrong. It's populated with the same people you deal with every day. And some of them are terrible, terrible people at that.