Guardsman Probed for Iraq Naked Soldier Photos
I suppose one could make the argument that war effects different people in different ways. This, though, is just a little TOO wierd, but it is certainly the stuff of DUMB@$$ AWARDS.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The head of a U.S. military police unit at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison is under investigation following charges he secretly photographed naked female American soldiers, officials said on Wednesday.
Capt. Leo Merck, 32, a member of the California National Guard who commanded the 124-strong 870th Military Police Company, is under U.S. Army investigation and has been relieved of duty, they said....
Merck, who is married and resides in Fremont, California, a suburb of San Francisco, is at an undisclosed location under U.S. Army control. "The U.S. Army justice system is working its wheels," Hughan said.
The Contra Costa Times, which broke the story on Wednesday, quoted Spc. Myrna Hernandez, 26, as saying she saw Merck photograph her as she was showering with two other women.
"I saw a guy get on all fours with a digital camera in his hands. His head was going under the wall, and we made eye contact," she told the newspaper. "I was in shock, like what do I do now?"
Well, you might want to avoid bending over to pick up that bar of soap on the shower floor....
Hmm...the one thing I remember from my time in the army is that there was no lack of available opportunities for lonely and randy soldiers to address their...um...urges. Of course, in the rabbit hole the Abu Ghraib prison seems to have become, I doubt that CAPT Merck is the only creep capable of attaining DUMB@$$ status. In fact, I'd hazard a guess that he is only the first of many to come.
God, I LOVE this job sometimes....
