Word: kosters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then on Feb. 17, Font filed charges against Major General Samuel W. Koster for "dereliction of duty" for allowing war crimes to be committed under his command, and against Seaman for "conspiracy to commit war crimes" and for "dereliction of duty" for allowing his men to commit war crimes in 1967, with regard to Operations Cedar Falls and Junction City, which he planned and executed...
...enlisted men have been charged with various offenses in connection with the incident. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam at the time of My Lai, recently recommended administrative punishment?demotion by one grade?for Calley's division commander, Major General Samuel Koster, and his assistant, Brigadier General George Young Jr., for failing to report the incident. General Koster was also officially censured. Those relatively minor strictures against general officers, compared with the harsher treatment of a young platoon leader, made the Army vulnerable to the suggestion that it had singled Calley...
...Samuel W. Koster...
...story of what happened at My Lai was veiled from public view for 20 months. Twenty-five originally were charged: two were acquitted in court-martial proceedings, three still face trial and the rest were exonerated through administrative action, including Major Gen. Samuel W. Koster, former Commandant of West Point...
...dismissal of the Koster case was immediately attacked by Robert MacCrate, special counsel to the Peers board, who charged that it has "cut off the orderly progress of inquiry up the chain of command." Charges of covering up the massacre are still pending against Colonel Oran K. Henderson, a brigade commander who served under Koster, and Captain Dennis Johnson, an intelligence officer. Murder charges have been filed against Captain Ernest Medina, commander of Charlie Company, and Captain Eugene M. Kotouc, an intelligence officer. No courts-martial have yet been scheduled for any of them...