The Doc. "THE KILL TEAM" War Makes Killing a Team Sport

My, oh my, another heinous lesson not learned from the Mai Lai Massacre in Viet Nam.  Doing the right thing is not easy, or safe for a soldier in a platoon when the Sgt. is a bully bent on giving orders that are out of order.  You want the truth?  The truth is hard to deliver & harder to handle. Under the guise of honor, code, loyalty, Sgt. Gibbs set up scenarios in which his fellow platoon members were told to shoot "worthless Afghanistans" for the pleasure of the kill & "war souvenirs,"  i.e. bones from the corpses for necklaces.  Gibbs, maintains the killings were in self-defense, but he made his own noose.  Gibbs is serving a life sentence for the killing of 3 Afghan. civilians.  During the Viet Nam conflict, more than 500 Vietnamese civilians were murdered.  Only 1 official was convicted of any crime, Lt. William Calley.  Sgt. Gibbs along with 3 other  soldiers under his command in Afghan. were  found guilty of murder.  This Doc. focuses on Specialist Adam Winfield.  He alerted his parents of a civilian killing in Jan. '10 under the command of his Sgt.  He also made it clear via emails, he feared for his own safety should he become a whistle blower.  Winfield's father attempted to contact army officials only to be told "unless you son's story is corroborated, it's 30 against 1 & there was nothing to be done."  Adam's account of staged, ruthless killings of Afghan. civilians was corroborated by PFC Justin Stoner who paid the price: "snitches get stitches."  The travesty is Winfield did participate in one such murder in May '10, for which he was tried and sentenced to 3 years in addition to 1 year served & a dishonorable discharge.  Acad. Award nom dir./producer ((The Most Dangerous Man in Amer. '10) does a brilliant job of showing the brutalities of war.  It also arouses our sympathy for Winfield, "I never wanted to kill anybody."  Winfield laments, "I wish could go back & fix things."  PFC Stoner, who reported what was happening to his superiors, has utter disdain for American civilians "You train us to kill & then you get pissed off when we do it."  What's worse, "This is a common occurrence, just this regiment got caught."