Crossposted from WarChronicle.com

DEFEND OUR MARINES

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“I had a feeling there was an agenda.”
– LtCol Jeffrey Chessani, USMC (Ret.)

By Nathaniel R. Helms | July 21, 2010

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Crossposted from The Noisy Dove

By Noisy Dove on February 23, 2010

Crossposted via FOXNews.com

Published July 19, 2010 | Associated Press

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.

A Camp Pendleton Marine officer who was accused of failing to investigate the killings of 24 Iraqis by a squad in the town of Haditha has left the service.

Attorney Jon Shelburne says Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani’s last day in the Corps was Friday.

Shelburne said Monday that Navy Secretary Ray Mabus recently upheld a ruling that the former battalion commander displayed substandard performance in response to the deaths but should maintain his rank.

Chessani, of Rangely, Colo., was accused of failing to investigate the 2005 killings but a judge dismissed a charge of dereliction of duty.

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Crossposted via The Washington Post

By Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 9, 2010

To the U.S. soldiers getting pounded with thunderous mortar rounds in their combat outpost near Kandahar, it seemed like a legitimate request: allow them to launch retaliatory mortar shells or summon an airstrike against their attackers. The incoming fire was landing perilously close to a guard station, and the soldiers, using a high-powered camera, could clearly see the insurgents shooting.

The response from headquarters — more than 20 miles away — was terse. Permission denied. Battalion-level officers deemed the insurgents too close to a cluster of mud-brick houses, perhaps with civilians inside. Although the insurgents stopped firing before anybody was wounded, the troops were left seething.

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Crossposted from American Thinker

By Pamela Geller

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