Ah, I see. You want an argument.
Afraid you really aren't going to get one. There really isn't anything to argue about. I think you want me to defend the incident for some reason but it's not going to happen.
I will however expand on the military in peacetime and wartime. The peacetime miliary is kept strictly supervised and disiplined. Wartime on the other hand is not so strictly supervised and disiplined. It's impossible too. What could get you busted in peacetime will get you nothing but an eye roll in wartime. It's harder to control your soldiers because they are more spread out and communication is done by radio ( in a city enviroment). You expect and trust that your soldiers will do the right thing. If they do the wrong thing as in rape and murder and it is found out they will be disiplined under the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMF). What more could you expect? No military force in the world has a pych test to see how you will react under the pressures of combat that I am aware of. You put a loaded firearm in someones hands and they change and thats a fact. Skybird might have a twenty page essay on the subject somewhere dealing with the subject. I'm not going to get into it.
You are under the mistaken impression that soldiers are supposed to be knights in shining armour and we are in the age of chivalry. I find that amusing. You have good and bad just like any society and you trust that justice will prevail as it will in this case.
To expect everyone in an armed force to be perfect gentlemen is pretty delusional. That hasn't happened in the age of mankind yet and it won't in the future.
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