A STORY ABOUT AMERICA'S "ALL VOLUNTEER" MILITARY

U.S. Sailor Gets Life for Killing Japanese Cabbie

Olatunbosun Ugbogu, a 23-year-old Nigerian citizen serving in the U.S. Navy, was found guilty of stabbing 61-year-old Masaaki Takahashi to death near a U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo

Contributed by Sergeant of Marines Timothy Joseph Harrington

Staff Sergeant Ray Girouard's court-martial

101st Airborne soldier's murder trial opens

Girouard's civilian attorney, Anita Gorecki, denied that he gave any such order. Two soldiers who actually killed the detainees — "the trigger-pullers," she said — have falsely implicated Girouard in order to receive reduced sentences under plea bargains, she said.

STAFF SERGEANT GIROUARD UPDATE

Soldier Tied to Iraq Attack Faces Trial

"Staff Sgt. Girouard gave no such order," said Anita Gorecki, Girouard's defense attorney. "During their trials in which they pled guilty, (Hunsaker and Clagett) made statements which can only be labeled as fascinating."

Staff Sergeant Girouard's Court-martial begins tomorrow (13 March 2007)

The 24-year-old 101st Airborne Solider faces premeditated murder charges in the shooting deaths of three Iraqi detainees last May during operations at a chemical complex north of Baghdad.

RAY SHOULDN'T GET A COURT-MARTIAL...RAY SHOULD GET A MEDAL!

Hometown fights for soldier charged in Iraq slayings

"He's been fighting for our freedom, and now he needs our help," Cleveland, a schoolteacher and the wife of a dairy farmer, told fellow parishioners.

JAG Hunter: Here endth the lesson.

Not the best or brightest: Increased granting of 'moral waivers' dangerously lowers standards for military recruits

The savage conflict in Iraq has placed enormous stress on even the most level-headed, scrupulous of soldiers. Abu Ghraib and other moral lapses should be incentive enough to redouble efforts to enlist the best and the brightest. Instead, it seems that the lowering of standards will have the opposite effect.