{"id":37253,"date":"2013-08-26T12:29:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T16:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37253"},"modified":"2013-08-26T12:29:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T16:29:10","slug":"marine-officer-warned-fellow-marines-about-danger-punished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37253","title":{"rendered":"Marine officer warned fellow Marines about danger; punished"},"content":{"rendered":"

J.C. sends us a link to an article in the Marine Corps Times<\/a> about Marine Major Jason Brezler in regards to that green-on-blue attack last year by a local Afghan police chief’s “tea boy” which cost three Marines their lives while they were in the gym. You probably remember that we wrote about it then<\/a>. Well, it seems that Major Brezler warned his troops about that police chief, Sarwar Jan, was habutually allowing his “tea boys” to come on the installation and wander around unsupervised. Then this particular tea boy, Aynoddin, choose to take his AK into the gym where marines weren’t allowed to take their own weapons and killed three Marines and wounded another seriously.<\/p>\n

The problem comes when Major Brezler transmitted his warning days before the deadly attack;<\/p>\n

Maj. Jason Brezler received \u201can emergency request for information\u201d from deployed Marines with Kilo Company, 3\/8, asking for information about an Afghan police official \u201cwhom they believed posed a security risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brezler, a mobilized reserve Marine at the time, \u201cimmediately told his fellow Marines what he knew about the peril they faced,\u201d and realized afterward that he passed \u201cimminent threat\u201d information classified as \u201cNATO SECRET\u201d over an unclassified computer network….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brezler reported the security breach himself – he tattled on himself and immediately received “an adverse fitness report”. A couple of things here. Why was this particular “imminent threat” classified NATO Secret? Maybe I don’t understand the stuff that’s going on over there well enough (and I’m sure you folks will straighten me out on this point), but it seems to me that an imminent threat warning would be posted on walls every where on the base. And if it was indeed an imminent threat, why weren’t those four Marines within arms distance of their weapons while they were in the gym? <\/p>\n

But it looks like the Major sent a warning which fell on deaf ears and three Marines were killed as a result and he was punished. The only reason that I can think of keeping a threat warning secret is so the police chief doesn’t feel bad that he’s considered a breach in security at the base, rather than warning every private about the danger they’re in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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