Uniform Code of Military Justice. So, yes there are legal repercussions for any military personnel (or professional killer if that's preferred; I don't mind; I was trained to kill, and to be good at it, better than my enemy certainly).
The "fun" comes into play if you think about what if a soldier is ordered to do something illegal? If s/he doesn't, it's a violation of UCMJ; if s/he does it, it breaks the law.
I've heard conflicting things cited about how to handle that even as a soldier. UCMJ states that you carry out your orders, then bring it up to the next person higher in your chain of command. Now, when Abu-Ghirab broke, the ethics retraining we received downrange said, "Don't do it if it's against the Geneva Convention" (simplified, but essentially true).
It's interesting trying to see things from the civilian point of view, even as I've supposedly made the switch back to one recently. |
