Stumbled across these boards, not doing much else today. And it's relevant to me at least. So first of all, discharges are for enlisted and dismissals are for commissioned officers. Second, I don't know what "problems" you're referring to, we were accused by the defense of being fucked up but that held no water. The reason we had our prior LT injured was because one of the squad leaders ignored solid intelligence, but I digress. It wasn't a "bad decision made in combat", there was no combat while he was with us. He started off threatening locals, then ordering illegal harassing fire towards them, then on day three they came up to complain, he threatened to kill them, they left, and he ordered their murders. As far as the supposed immunity, only four of the 22 testifying witnesses had any sort. And it was testimonial immunity, not transactional, which means they were still punished with GOMARs. It ruined others careers for sure. But nobody else was actively trying to obstruct justice and filing false reports. That was all him. You know they had proper IDs on them? He told us to just "pretend" we didn't see them. So believe me when I tell you that he was wrong in every way and his actions over the three days he was there are completely indefensible. I noticed nobody here brought up how he ordered a soldier to shoot near a group of children, yet that's been publicly acknowledged since 2013 cause it was covered in the local news who sat in on the court martial. Not that most people understand what a "primary source" is.
