Hunting Taliban Different Than What They Expected: Marines Gain Small Victories Without Fighting 9/2/2009 By Gunnery Sgt. Chris W. Cox , Regimental Combat Team 3 KHOUSARI AHBAD, HELMAND PROVINCE-1st Platoon Commander 1st Lt. Patrick O'Shea, from C Co., 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, speaks to a ...
From a New Yorker article about platoon dynamics and American infantrymen in Iraq... Two infantrymen performed the executions. One of them was William Hunsaker, the specialist. Just before Operation Iron Triangle, he was told that he would be promoted. His platoon sergeant considered him to be "one ...
