Green Beret Charged with PREMEDITATED MURDER of Taliban Bomb Maker

You can’t fight wars with Marquis de Queensbury rules.

Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, CBE, as well as estimable ornithologist (but hey, there is some dirt about him if ya really wanna know- you can look it up) reportedly had a private audience with Hitler and Ribbentrop in 1939. He reportedly had a revolver in his pocket which he considered using, but didn’t, as it would have been unsportsmanlike.

Later, I am certain Minertzhagen regretted that decision, all the more so as his own son was killed in the war. One of history’s great missed opportunities- no Hitler: no WWII, no enslavement of Eastern Europe, and no Holocaust.

Had he killed Hitler, even in hindsight the same type of yammerheads calling for Major Golsteyn s prosecution would have wanted Minertzhagen’s head (in the unlikely event the Germans’ didn’t kill him after the assassination).

This officer very likely saved the lives of American soldiers and probably the lives of Afghan civilians. This is clearly a case where, even if he violated the rules of engagement, prosecution should not go forward. Assuming Pamela has given an accurate description of the facts, I hope Trump will kill this case or, if he cannot, issue an immediate full pardon if Golsteyn is found guilty. I am certain President Hillary would not have done so.

OUTRAGEOUS!
You are to KILL the enemy in war.

Army revokes Silver Star award for Green Beret officer, citing investigation
By Dan Lamothe
February 4, 2015

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He received the Silver Star for valor for his actions during a 2011 ceremony at Fort Bragg, N.C. Top Army officials later approved him for an upgrade to the prestigious Distinguished Service Cross, second only to the Medal of Honor in recognizing combat heroism by U.S. soldiers.

In a rare reversal, however, Golsteyn, now a major, no longer has either award. The officer, a former member of the 3rd Special Forces Group and graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., was later investigated for an undisclosed violation of the military’s rules of engagement in combat for killing a known enemy fighter and bomb maker, according to officials familiar with the case. The investigation closed last year without Golsteyn’s being charged with a crime, but Army Secretary John M. McHugh decided not only to deny Golsteyn the Distinguished Service Cross, but also to revoke his Silver Star.

McHugh cited a provision in Army regulations that if facts become known that would have prevented the awarding of a medal, the award can be revoked. The Silver Star was approved by a top commander in Afghanistan — Army Gen. David M. Rodriguez, then the three-star deputy commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan — according to Golsteyn’s lawyer, Phil Stackhouse.

“I firmly believe that had he known about the derogatory information that was [found] by the aforementioned investigation, he would have never awarded Major Golsteyn the Silver Star,” McHugh said in a Nov. 17 letter to Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R.-Calif.), who has advocated on Golsteyn’s behalf. “Accordingly, I have decided to revoke the interim Silver Star that Major Golsteyn received for this action.”

The decision is still shrouded in mystery because of the secretive nature of the Army’s investigation into Golsteyn, who did extensive work with U.S. Marines in and around Marja in Helmand province. An online Defense Department database of top valor awards still included Golsteyn’s Silver Star as of Wednesday afternoon and said the information was current as of Jan. 30.

A spokesman for McHugh’s office, Lt. Col. Chris Kasker, declined to comment Wednesday, citing the administrative nature of the decision. But he released details of Golsteyn’s service record that show he no longer has a Silver Star and is is not in Special Forces anymore. The major earned a Bronze Star and Army Commendation medal with “V” devices for heroism in earlier actions, Kasker said. Golsteyn joined the Army in 2002.

Hunter, a former Marine officer and veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, alleged in the Daily Beast on Tuesday that the Army “went to extraordinary lengths to investigate Golsteyn,” threatening his fellow soldiers and offering them immunity. In a Dec. 4 letter to Army Human Resources Command, Hunter said the revocation appears to be “retaliatory and vindictive.”

“The Army has been unable to present substantive evidence while an overwhelming number of first-person accounts provided to Army investigators uphold Matt’s record as a top-level operator,” said Hunter’s letter, which the congressman’s office released to The Post.

Golsteyn’s lawyer said the investigation into the Army officer’s actions was launched in 2011, less than a year after he received the Silver Star. He remains assigned to Army Special Forces Command at Fort Bragg and is in the process of determining what to do with his future, Stackhouse said. The lawyer declined to elaborate on what the Army investigated.

“In the summer of 2014, we were certainly under the impression that everything was done and complete,” said Stackhouse. “The revocation of his valor awards came out of left field to us.”

The decision also raises the question of whether the military should strip troops of awards they have earned if they are found to have done something wrong later.

Golsteyn’s Silver Star came for actions on Feb. 20, 2010. He assembled his unit after his base had come under sniper fire from an insurgent wielding a Dragunov rifle, according to an Army narrative of his actions. He directed his troops to launch an assault across 700 meters of open fields, but an armored truck known as a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle sank into mud under gunfire after about 175 meters.

Under heavy machine-gun and sniper fire, Golsteyn ran about 150 meters to the trapped MRAP to retrieve a powerful 84mm Carl Gustav recoilless rifle, an anti-tank weapon. While moving under gunfire, he coordinated a medical evacuation for the wounded Afghan soldier and then opened fire with the Carl Gustav, said the Army narrative, which was obtained by The Post.

“Captain Golsteyn was alone running in the open through enemy gun fire that had over 80 men pinned down, and from the crow’s nest on top of [Forward Operating Base] McQueary, it looked like Captain Golsteyn was alone fighting 30 enemy fighters out in the poppy fields,” the award narrative said.

Enemy reinforcements continued to arrive on the battlefield, so Golsteyn organized airstrikes by both F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets and a Predator drone. No American or coalition troops were killed in the battle despite a barrage of enemy fire that lasted four hours, the narrative said.

Golsteyn has been critical of the Afghanistan mission in the past. In the 2011 Bing West book “The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy and the Way Out of Afghanistan,” he is quoted as saying that the Americans were considered insurgents in Afghanistan who were “selling a poor product called the Kabul government.”

West later wrote in a review of a book about another Special Forces soldier, Maj. Jim Gant, that the careers of Gant, Golsteyn and a third Green Beret, Dan McKone, were “terminated,” assessing that the Army failed them. West could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Golsteyn wrote about his assignment in Afghanistan in a June 2014 academic paper for a class at Fayetteville State University that was published online. It covers his 2010 deployment and said that his unit — known as a Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha, or A-Team — operated in multiple two- and three-man teams. Over time, local tribesmen grew to trust them, especially after three weeks of fighting, he added.

“We enjoyed repeated interactions with the local populace because we lived with them, fighting for them as well as alongside them,” Golsteyn wrote. “In a 60 day period, our medical clinic run by Green Berets with several Marine medics treated approximately 1,000 local Afghans. We executed multiple helicopter casualty evacuations for civilian victims of [improvised explosive devices] in addition to being the first responders to the scene in nearly every case.”

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See why Obama HATED Flynn.
Obama did his best to purge the military of ALL who disagreed with him and HATED Flynn too.
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his commanding officer, given his command by the muslim president, is doing this to this american warrior. i keep saying that trump needs to rid the military of all officers appointed by the muslim, every single one of them, as they are contaminated with the muslim virus. so this guy killed our enemy in a war to protect other americans from being murdered, and this is what he gets? do not let your sons and grandsons be foolish enough to join the american military, it’s just another arm of the democrat party, and one that will get them killed

This is sickening! We send our special forces over to that sh**hole to do the bidding of the worthless suits in political office, but then when our troops do their jobs a little too well, they are punished for it. That’s what he was there for. Trump should do whatever he can to try and stop this madness from going forward. This is meant to further undermine the already low morale of our troops who serve overseas. Why would anyone want to go to a war zone and be put into a combat situation if they knew there was a strong likelihood they could be prosecuted for what they were sent there for in the first place.

Next, they will begin prosecuting snipers for premeditated murder…..

Remember the good old days, when our military was tasked with killing the enemy and breaking their stuff until they unconditionally surrender? Me either, born in the 50s…

But Lt. Calley and his band of animals are still footloose and fancy free after slaughtering 500+ unarmed Vietnamese peasants in four hours in 1968. Hey, but who cares? That’s old news, right ? Incidentally, there’s no statute of limitations on war crimes.

I served 11b20 in ’67, combat wounded and this atrocity still casts a dark, dark cloud over the U.S. military. Just think, these guys slaughtered 500+ people, . . . got a pass !. . . . and I’ll bet everyone of them is collecting 100% disability for the PTSD they’re ” suffering ” as a result of their barbaric actions.

These scum are trash and tarnish the reputations of every troop who served HONORABLY in that war.

And, as far as I’m concerned, anyone who defends them is trash as well . . .

Going public is something one does when one knows they are about to be charged! Hes not stupid, they released him once, perhaps double jeopardy can help?

This guy deserves a MEDAL, not prosecution. The people prosecuting ought to be slammed out of the military and prosecutaed for treason.

Who side are the CIA on?

With this soldier putting the muzrat bomber to the sword’ how many lives did he save through taking this decisive action?
Give the man a medal not a prison sentence!

He killed a terrorist! Isn’t that part of his job description?
Dismiss any charges as false and baseless, immediately, and hang all the traitors who are involved in trying to destroy, literally, this honourable man.
Give him his freedom, his medals back, a big fat check, and a hero’s parade!

This reminds me of the IDF soldier who was incarcerated for shooting a muslum terrorist dead in Israel.