Thread: Was it Worth it?

When you look back, standing stoically or in tears behind prison bars, do you regret joining the U.S. Army to go off to war at your young age?

Twenty-four years in prison is a long time. That steals the better part of your youth. You return and your VA benefits you otherwise would have had with am honorable discharge are gone. You played mafioso for that Mustache Pete called Uncle Sam. You may or may not have been prone to ethnic or racial prejudice and homicide before you joined the Army. But once in and associated with a little happy ban of murderers, there you are, where you are. Young and dumb you descend down a path your psychotic hide might have avoided had you enrolled in UCLA and spent most your off time trying to get Jill drunk and seduce her and her roommate.

Was it worth it?

Full story: Army: Photos of soldiers with corpses 'disturbing' - Yahoo! News

OLYMPIA, Wash. – The U.S. Army on Monday apologized for any distress caused by recently published photos of American soldiers posing with dead Afghans, calling their content "disturbing" and "in striking contrast" to the Army's standards and values.

The Army issued a statement in response to graphic images that Rolling Stone magazine posted on its website on Monday — about a week after the German news magazine Der Spiegel published three of the photos.

Rolling Stone says the photos are linked to an ongoing war crimes probe involving members of the 5th Stryker Brigade, based south of Seattle. Five soldiers from the platoon have been charged with murder and conspiracy in the deaths of three unarmed Afghan men last year.

Morlock, the first of the five to be court-martialed, was sentenced last week to 24 years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of murder, as well as conspiracy and other charges. He said the killings were part of a deliberate plan to murder Afghan civilians.

Well technically speaking they shouldnt have done that, they should have expected a large sentence is is the ARMY after all -_-. A person in world war 1 saved his platoon by running away and warning them but was sentenced to death by the army.