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Read more about Geoffrey Gregg's SAS patrol...
...Geffrey 'G' Gregg committed suicide last September, aged 25. In 2002, he was serving with the Army in Afghanistan when he was attached as a signaller to an SAS patrol. The team became embroiled in a firefight that left 11 Afghan civilians dead. Some members (not Gregg) later traded claims of cowardice and mutiny, sparking an official inquiry that saw three SAS men return prematurely to Australia...
...TIME spoke to Gregg in 2005, when it first published details of the mission. He expressed grave concerns about the army's handling of the incident and other Special Air Service Regiment patrols in Afghanistan. He said after the patrol he had been pressured to write a report which reflected badly on the patrol commander. "That poor bugger the patrol commander has been through hell and back," he said at the time...
...Gregg also said he was also harassed by other soldiers who believed a young signaller should never have been sent on the patrol. "I was put in that position and none of it was to do with me or was my fault," he said. He told TIME he was enthusiastic about leaving the army but was having difficulty finding work due to an injury sustained during military training. "There's no actual civilian employment I can slot back into with my military training that interests me. I was hoping to look at offshore security work but I'm not sure...
...once more to show that compassion and conservatism can speak the same language, as he reopened the debate over immigration reform. First he had to reassure conservatives that he's still the sheriff, and so his trip to the Yuma, Ariz., borderlands included a dedication of a new border-patrol station and an inspection of the Predator, an unmanned plane used to track incursions. Deterrence is working, he said; arrests are down 68% here, which must mean people have given up trying...