Now, the truth starts to emerge from some of the veterans..

[GMDino]

(09-26-2015, 10:07 AM)bfine32 Wrote: http://allenbwest.com/2015/09/what-u-s-soldiers-are-being-forced-to-do-by-their-own-commanders-is-despicable/



I'm sure we all know who killed CPL Buckley

Someone we sent our young men and women over to "civilize", "bring democracy too" and to "train".  :snark:

[oncemoreuntothejimbreech]

(09-26-2015, 10:07 AM)bfine32 Wrote: http://allenbwest.com/2015/09/what-u-s-soldiers-are-being-forced-to-do-by-their-own-commanders-is-despicable/



I'm sure we all know who killed CPL Buckley

From the Times article . . . "A portrait of Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. in his family's home in Oceanside, N.Y. He was shot to death in 2012 by a teenage "tea boy" living on his base in Helmand Province."

Who do you believe killed CPL Buckley?                

[*bfine32*]

(09-26-2015, 01:35 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: From the Times article . . . "A portrait of Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. in his family's home in Oceanside, N.Y. He was shot to death in 2012 by a teenage "tea boy" living on his base in Helmand Province."

Who do you believe killed CPL Buckley?                

A Tea Boy who was tired of being molested and took his anger out on those he thought could protect him. 

[GMDino]

(09-26-2015, 01:35 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: From the Times article . . . "A portrait of Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. in his family's home in Oceanside, N.Y. He was shot to death in 2012 by a teenage "tea boy" living on his base in Helmand Province."

Who do you believe killed CPL Buckley?                

(09-26-2015, 01:45 PM)bfine32 Wrote: A Tea Boy who was tired of being molested and took his anger out on those he thought could protect him. 

http://thefallen.militarytimes.com/marine-lance-cpl-gregory-t-buckley/6568308

Quote:Marine Lance Cpl. Gregory T. Buckley

Died August 10, 2012 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom

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21, of Oceanside, N.Y.; assigned to Headquarters Company, 3rd Marines, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii; while deployed, he was attached to 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.; died Aug. 10 in Garmsir, Afghanistan, after being shot by an Afghan civilian. Also killed were Marine Staff Sgt. Scott E. Dickinson, 29, of San Diego and MarineCpl. Richard A. Rivera Jr., 20 of Ventura, Calif.

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Quote:Funeral for Marine killed in Afghanistan draws crowd

The Associated Press

OCEANSIDE, N.Y. — More than 1,000 people attended a funeral on Long Island for Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley Jr., who was barely 21 when he was killed in an attack by a policeman in Afghanistan.

His father, Greg Buckley Sr., choked back tears as he spoke at St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre, saying he could never be prouder of anyone in his life.

After the funeral, Newsday reported, Buckley's body was accompanied by a procession of motorcyclists to the Long Island National Cemetery.

The Afghan police officer shot and killed Buckley and two other Marines after sharing a meal with them.

It was one of a recent rash of attacks in which Afghan security forces, or attackers wearing their uniforms, turned their guns on the coalition troops.

[oncemoreuntothejimbreech]

(09-26-2015, 01:45 PM)bfine32 Wrote: A Tea Boy who was tired of being molested and took his anger out on those he thought could protect him. 

That was in the original article so I don't understand why you linked the Allen West article.  But, I found two quotes interesting.

Quote:I could care less about nation building and making others “democratic” . . .

Quote: We should NEVER surrender our values

[*bfine32*]

(09-26-2015, 02:41 PM)GMDino Wrote: http://thefallen.militarytimes.com/marine-lance-cpl-gregory-t-buckley/6568308

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-told-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html?_r=0

Quote:Lance Corporal Buckley and two other Marines were killed in 2012 by one of a large entourage of boys living at their base with an Afghan police commander named Sarwar Jan.

Mr. Jan had long had a bad reputation; in 2010, two Marine officers managed to persuade the Afghan authorities to arrest him following a litany of abuses, including corruption, support for the Taliban and child abduction. But just two years later, the police commander was back with a different unit, working at Lance Corporal Buckley’s post, Forward Operating Base Delhi, in Helmand Province.

Lance Corporal Buckley had noticed that a large entourage of “tea boys” — domestic servants who are sometimes pressed into sexual slavery — had arrived with Mr. Jan and moved into the same barracks, one floor below the Marines. He told his father about it during his final call home.

Word of Mr. Jan’s new position also reached the Marine officers who had gotten him arrested in 2010. One of them, Maj. Jason Brezler, dashed out an email to Marine officers at F.O.B. Delhi, warning them about Mr. Jan and attaching a dossier about him.

The warning was never heeded. About two weeks later, one of the older boys with Mr. Jan — around 17 years old — grabbed a rifle and killed Lance Corporal Buckley and the other Marines. 

[GMDino]

(09-26-2015, 02:59 PM)bfine32 Wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-told-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html?_r=0

Yes, the family is claiming a cover up.

The military is saying its not true.

http://nypost.com/2014/10/16/family-sues-marines-for-covering-up-slain-sons-death-details/

Quote:The shattered family of a Long Island Marine murdered by an Afghan rebel on an American military base in 2012 is suing the corps and top brass for allegedly covering up details of the incident, The Post has learned.


Relatives of Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley Jr., 21, of Oceanside, say his killer served as a “tea boy” for an infamous Afghan police chief who was allowed to operate out of the Helmand province compound despite his perverse reputation, according to the Brooklyn federal suit filed Wednesday.

Ainuddin Khudairaham walked into a gym on the base and shot dead Buckley, Cpl. Richard Rivera and Staff Sgt. Scott Dickinson. He proclaimed himself a jihadist before being arrested.

Khudairaham was employed on the base by Sarwar Jan, a notorious Afghan police chief with a taste for young boys, drug dealing, and trading arms with the Taliban, the suit states.

He had already been ejected from another village for his unsavory activities and the US military compiled a dossier of his ugly exploits long before he arrived at Buckley’s base, court papers state.

Marine bosses “should never have allowed Jan or the murderer to enter, let alone operate out of” the compound, according to the complaint.

Buckley’s family claims they were purposefully kept in the dark about Khudairaham’s Afghan trial — and were crushed to learn that the triple murderer was tried as a juvenile and sentenced to a mere seven years in prison.

Buckley’s father, Greg Buckley Sr., and his aunt, Mary Liz Grosseto, say that they repeatedly demanded answers about the killing from the Marine Corps but were ignored. They are suing for access to that information.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/27/family-of-marine-killed-in-afghanistan-pushes-back/?page=all

Quote:The Marine Corps disputes this, providing a statement to The Washington Times detailing security at Delhi and the amount of communications it has maintained with the three families.


“Our approach to supporting the families of our fallen Marines is based on our unwavering commitment to loyalty,” the statement said.
The murders at the Helmand Province FOB came amid a wave of insider, or “green on blue,” attacks carried out by Afghan security personnel working closely with the Americans. Also shot and killed in the gym were Cpl. Richard A. Rivera Jr. and Staff Sgt. Scott E. Dickinson. A fourth Marinetook a number of rounds and was nearly killed.

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(09-26-2015, 03:25 PM)GMDino Wrote: Yes, the family is claiming a cover up.

The military is saying its not true.

http://nypost.com/2014/10/16/family-sues-marines-for-covering-up-slain-sons-death-details/



http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/27/family-of-marine-killed-in-afghanistan-pushes-back/?page=all

Remember when the Taliban killed Pat Tillman?

[GMDino]

(09-26-2015, 03:27 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Remember when the Taliban killed Pat Tillman?

Yes.

Remember all the other military people killed by the Taliban?

[Rotobeast]

(09-26-2015, 04:40 PM)GMDino Wrote: Yes.

Remember all the other military people killed by the Taliban?

You know that Tillman was not killed by the Taliban, right ?

[GMDino]

(09-26-2015, 06:29 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: You know that Tillman was not killed by the Taliban, right ?

I do.

I also know it was covered up to make a hero out of him as part of a propaganda program.

That doesn't equal Larry's assertion that because the family thinks their son was killed one way and the military says something else that it must be cover up.

That's all.

[Rotobeast]

(09-26-2015, 07:22 PM)GMDino Wrote: I do.

I also know it was covered up to make a hero out of him as part of a propaganda program.

That doesn't equal Larry's assertion that because the family think their son was killed one way the military says something else that it must be cover up.

That's all.

Ok, just making sure.
I haven't been around P&R long enough to know, for sure.
That was a messy situation.