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What is impossible to know is whether the same lengthy experience that made the Marines more attuned to the challenges of fighting in Iraq also made them more prone to snap if provoked. As TIME reported in March, a 13-man Kilo unit was on patrol in a residential part of Haditha on Nov. 19 when its convoy of four humvees was attacked by an IED. The explosion killed Miguel Terrazas, 20, a beloved member of the unit, who was driving the fourth humvee. Terrazas had a record of being cool under fire. His brother Martin reports that Terrazas once...
According to official accounts, the rest of Kilo Company's day was routine. It discovered three other IEDs and destroyed them in controlled explosions, and it raided what it believed to be a safe house, detained some men and found roughly 20 Jordanian passports on the premises...
...separate team of investigators, meanwhile, is focusing on official deception: Did officers in Kilo Company--or further up the chain of command--cover up what happened that day? A Marine communiqué on Nov. 20 claimed that 15 Iraqi civilians had been killed, as Terrazas was, by the IED and that gunmen afterward opened fire on the Marines, who then killed eight insurgents. Only after Iraqi complaints of an atrocity were brought to the military's attention by TIME did the Marines acknowledge that all the Iraqis had died from gunfire. The Marines on April 7 removed two officers...
...focus of the investigation is how superior officers reacted to the killings at Haditha by members of Kilo Company of the 3rd Marine Battalion. Here's an overview of how the corps...
...Where Kilo Company Fits How Marine fighting units are organized: SQUAD A sergeant leading a dozen Marines with ranks of private first class, lance corporal or corporal PART...