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There was never any dispute about the basic facts of the case. On May 20, Marine Corporal Clemente Banuelos, 22, aimed his M-16 rifle at an 18-year-old goatherd named Esequiel Hernandez Jr. and shot him to death. Banuelos was part of a military surveillance unit helping control drug traffic in the tiny West Texas border town of Redford. He had apparently mistaken Hernandez--who was carrying a rifle and had fired it in the direction of the Marines--for one of the armed scouts who typically act as advance guards for drug smugglers...
...issue in the grand jury hearing was whether the Marines had followed the rules of engagement after they were shot at by Hernandez. Apparently they stalked Hernandez for 20 min. after those shots, keeping in close radio contact with their unit. It was only when Hernandez raised his rifle again and pointed it at Lance Corporal James Blood that team leader Banuelos fired. The Marines said they were devastated by the killing, which they insisted was an accident. "If there was any way to fix it, I would," said Blood. The grand jury evidently believed them, deciding that Banuelos...
When his mother died, Seng was allowed to leave his mobile work unit and go back to his village. He asked neighbors to bury her beside his father and gave them a shirt in payment. Then he knelt, took a handful of dirt from each parent's grave and prayed that their spirits would look after him. Returning to his work unit, he disobeyed orders, went off in search of food and came across a mass grave of 30 bodies. To punish him, soldiers tied him to a bamboo pole and left him to starve for days. Eventually he escaped...
...Electric workers and the officer were treated for minor smoke inhalation and released early yesterday evening, but one worker who suffered second and third degree burns covering 30 percent of his body was transferred to the burn unit, said Eric Legome, the attending physician in the MGH emergency room...
...current eight weeks, primarily to include more human-relations instruction designed to curb sexual harassment. But Army officials say they are also weighing beefed up physical standards for recruits. That draft Rand Corp. study now circulating around the Pentagon says only 42.9% of the troops surveyed believe their unit is ready for a crisis. "That number is unsettling," the study notes, "given that the military's job is to be prepared for what is essentially a sustained crisis." At Fort Leonard Wood, a lot of recruits agree. "If basic training was tougher, we'd end up with better soldiers," says...