By Steve Huff
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The Army determined for its own reasons that Green was an antisocial personality before anyone was aware that he could be connected with the massacre of the Hamza family in Mahmudiya.
Did Steven D. Green, along with the other as-yet unnamed soldiers, decide to seek his own brand of 'thrills'?
On December 9, 2005, the Army News Service published this article by Spc. George Welcome, essentially an earlier version of the piece that appeared in the Fort Campbell Courier almost a week later.
A look at the article on July 5, 2006, showed that Pfc. Steven Green's photo, which had been captioned, "Pfc. Steven Green, B Co. 1-502 prepares to blast a lock off the gate of an abandoned home during a search of homes in Mullah Fayed on Dec. 2," was no longer attached to the piece, in fact the photo could not be found on the host website, http://www.4army.mil, at all.
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| Pfc. Steven D. Green |
Army blogger Sergeant First Class Thomas T. Nichols preserved the photo and caption in a weblog entry Nichols wrote on July 4, 2006 for his blog, Jack Army, found at http://gojackarmy.blogspot.com. Nichols titled his entry, "Two Stories, One Soldier," and in it he contrasted the December article by Spc. Welcome with a recent article about the arrest of Steven D. Green.
Sgt. Nichols wrote:
"[By] the way, there are folks in the Army that commit crimes. Yeah, I know that surprises you. 'Aren't Soldiers trained to be perfect?' you ask. Sure, but, in the end, we are still just people. Imperfect as always. Shucks, huh? The good news is that when a Soldier commits a crime, he or she is likely to be tried and if found guilty, convicted. . ."
The other soldiers allegedly involved in the crime are currently confined to their base but they have not been charged. The Army continues investigations in Iraq, the FBI in the United States.
If convicted of the charges against him, Steven D. Green could face the death penalty.
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