There is a new push on the horizon to free Army lieutenant Lorance who was convicted of Afghans’ murder:

It is a disgrace that some of our military personal that have put their lives on the line every-day to ensure the freedom of the USA and its people are subjected to playing by the rules when it comes to combat situations. The enemy has no rules.

These combat ready people have to make split second decisions while on patrol or in a combat situation. One split second either way can mean their lives or the lives of their comrades.

Army Lt. Clint Lorance, 29, was convicted of murder in the 2012 incident, when he ordered his platoon to shoot 3 men approaching a checkpoint on motorcycles when they refused to stop. As a consequence of his orders, two of the men died.

There have been numerous occasions where too much consideration was put into whether to fire on the enemy or not that resulted in the death of our troops.

The wacked out military prosecutors who is presiding at Lorance’s court martial, that most probably never served in a combat situation said the lieutenant  acted recklessly in violation of the military’s rules of engagement, which requires soldiers to hold fire absent evidence of hostile action or hostile intent.  I didn’t know that our troops need to be fortune tellers and clairvoyant as well.

Three men with rifles, with all of the earmarks of the enemy, approaching on motorcycles and refusing to stop. That would look very suspicious and life threatening to me.

I would rather take a calculated guess and fire at them than have a bunch of people standing over my grave, looking down at me saying what a fool I was.

Lorance was tried, convicted and sentenced to 20 years in Leavenworth years.

After his conviction Lorance’s attorneys claim previously known evidence was withheld at the trial that shows the men he ordered shot had ties to extremist groups.

Are the prosecutors in military court martials as obsesses as civilian prosecutors who only care about the win and have little regard for the possibility of the innocence of the person on trial?

The circumstances should be reversed for the prosecutor to fully understand what a life and death situation feels like and how would they react.

In the USMC we used to call these people 90 day wonders. Fresh out of college and all they know is what is written their guide book. Combat sense, common sense and street sense does not exist in their world.

There was a very similar occurrence that happened to a William Calley, Jr.  a former US Army lieutenant during  the Vietnam war.

Calley was charged with murdering 22 unarmed South Vietnam civilians in the on March 16, 1968.  Calley claimed was following the instructions of his commanding officers Captain Medina. He was sentenced to life in prison. His sentence was eventually whipped out by Richard Nixon and he was given a complete pardon.

I haven’t seen very few if any  high ranking officers in the military ever take the rap or be charged with improprieties in a combat situation, even if their subordinates were following their orders.

When the accolades are being passed around the brass are right in the front lines. When shit hits the fan they all run for cover and little guys on the bottom always take the blunt of the avalanche.

I hope the Army brass wakes up and gives Clint Lorance the freedom he so richly deserves for serving his country and following orders.

I  think that the people that are leading the parade forget that it is war and not playtime in the school yard.