{"id":7320,"date":"2013-07-17T10:18:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T10:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7320"},"modified":"2013-07-17T10:18:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T10:18:09","slug":"us-marine-who-urinated-on-taliban-dead-says-hed-do-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7320","title":{"rendered":"US Marine who urinated on Taliban dead says he\u2019d do it again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"marinestaliban\"<\/a>A Marine who was fined and demoted for urinating on Taliban corpses in Afghanistan in 2011 says he would do it again.<\/p>\n

\u201cI regret maybe any repercussions it might have had on the Marines. But do I regret doing it? Hell no,\u201d Sgt. Joseph Chamblin told WSOC-TV in Charlotte, N.C., adding that he would do it again.<\/p>\n

The infamous incident was videotaped and uploaded to YouTube last year, becoming international news and raising fears of retaliation by Afghan troops against their coalition trainers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese were the same guys that were killing our family, killing our brothers,\u201d said Sgt. Chamblin, who was on a mission to stop Taliban insurgents from making roadside bombs.<\/p>\n

One of his sniper team members, Sgt. Mark Bradley, was killed by a buried bomb days before the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re human,\u201d he said. \u201cWho wouldn\u2019t if you lost your brother or mother? Wouldn\u2019t you want revenge?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sgt. Chamblin said he didn\u2019t consider endangering other troops by the act, but considered the psychological effect it would have on the enemy \u201cbecause if an infidel touches the body, they\u2019re not going to Mecca or paradise.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo now these insurgents see what happens when you mess with us,\u201d said Sgt. Chamblin, adding that he is planning to retire in September and is writing a book.<\/p>\n

The Marines court-martialed nine troops for the incident. Sgt. Chamblin, a 15-year veteran, pleaded guilty for urinating on the bodies and dereliction of duty and was fined $500 and demoted, WSOC reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you want the Marine Corps to be a group of Boy Scout pretty boys or do you want guys that will go out and kill the people trying to take advantage of your country and kill Americans?\u201d he said. \u201cWhich do you want? Because you can\u2019t have both.\u201d – Washington Times<\/p>\n

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A Marine who was fined and demoted for urinating on Taliban corpses in Afghanistan in 2011 says he would do it again. \u201cI regret maybe any repercussions it might have had on the Marines. But do I regret doing it? Hell no,\u201d Sgt. Joseph Chamblin told WSOC-TV in Charlotte, N.C., adding that he would do … Continue reading “US Marine who urinated on Taliban dead says he\u2019d do it again”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,123],"tags":[2355,52,3995,3994],"class_list":["post-7320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","category-world","tag-afghanistan","tag-taliban","tag-urinating-on-corpses","tag-us-marines"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/marinestaliban.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7323,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7320\/revisions\/7323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}