base in the Panjwai district of the Kandahar province of Afghanistan, entered homes in nearby villages, and gunned down nine children, four men, and three women before dawn. The next morning he turned himself in to his command for the crimes committed. These suspected actions of SSG Bales have caused many soldiers in the Kandahar province trouble. The Afghani civilians now despise our Army and everything to do with it, and now they are refusing to help our soldiers at all. Some of the soldiers still remaining in that Afghani province (since SSG Bales is now in Fort Leavenworth prison), now more than ever, are receiving extreme amounts of indirect fire, and even small arms fire. This has brought their moral to an all-time low and makes them more and more frustrated every
base in the Panjwai district of the Kandahar province of Afghanistan, entered homes in nearby villages, and gunned down nine children, four men, and three women before dawn. The next morning he turned himself in to his command for the crimes committed. These suspected actions of SSG Bales have caused many soldiers in the Kandahar province trouble. The Afghani civilians now despise our Army and everything to do with it, and now they are refusing to help our soldiers at all. Some of the soldiers still remaining in that Afghani province (since SSG Bales is now in Fort Leavenworth prison), now more than ever, are receiving extreme amounts of indirect fire, and even small arms fire. This has brought their moral to an all-time low and makes them more and more frustrated every