Due process cleared officers, Army says

[unhappycamper]

Due process cleared (Wanat) officers, Army says
By William Cole
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Sep 30, 2010

The secretary of the Army recently told a group of U.S. senators recently that Army officers had received due process and nothing more could be done after they were found to be derelict but then were exonerated for their roles in a deadly 2008 battle in Afghanistan, a family member who lost a son in the battle said.

Aiea resident David Brostrom, whose 24-year-old son, 1st Lt. Jonathan Brostrom, was killed in Wanat, said in an e-mail that Army Secretary John McHugh informed U.S. Sens. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii; Jim Webb, D-Va.; and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., of his decision two weeks ago.

It is another blow for the families of nine men killed at Wanat when an overwhelming enemy force attacked Jonathan Brostrom's platoon in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan on July 13, 2008.

~snip~

But immediately after families were told of the results of the U.S. Central Command reinvestigation, the Army reversed the punishment given to the three officers.

~snip~

The Army's decision to exonerate officers identified as being derelict "raised a number of troubling issues," the senators said in the letter to McHugh.