A recent news report breathlessly headlined "Troops revolt over 'suicide mission'" gives you the impression that some large combat formation has mutinied against their lawful commanders. If you actually read the article instead of concentrating on the editorial slant, you get a slightly different picture:
In a statement issued yesterday, US military spokesmen in Baghdad would only confirm that a senior officer from the 13th Corps Support Command had been sent to a base near Tallil to investigate an "isolated incident", amid reports that members of a reservist supply unit refused to undertake a convoy mission.
However, the Clarion-Ledger newspaper, based in Jackson, Mississippi, said the platoon of 17 men and women from the 343rd Quartermaster Company were in army detention, after refusing to carry out a fuel supply convoy on Wednesday, because their vehicles were in such poor shape and their usual armed escort was not available.
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Posted by Nicholas at October 16, 2004 01:40 PM
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