Is it real or is it fake?

UPDATES: just to show you can't lump the actions of a couple of idiotic marines with the rest.

There's this story

And this story of Mama and Boris (USA Today Story (video below)

This one goes way back

And thanks to Operation Baghdad Pups Soldiers can bring their friends home

Here are a few other videos from Iraq:

Happy Puppies

Soldiers Find Puppies in Iraq

Puppies in Iraq

Does that matter? The damage is done.

As Laughing Wolf put it:

They have given domestic enemies ammunition to use against the military and in support of the enemy.

During my Dawn Patrol rounds, I ran across this disturbing video within hours of it being uploaded. I immediately emailed BlackFive, to assist in making sure the Marines were aware of it and an investigation underway. The Marines were already on it.

But knowing the path this was going to take, I emailed my fellow milbloggers to warn them of the backlash that was evident.

I'm not going to speculate whether it's real or fake, whether the dog was dead or alive, making the video either way is damaging enough. If this guy is guilty it will be the Marines that will happily hang him.

My immediate fear is the retaliation against this marines family. His personal info has been spread all over the net and it's not where he's currently living but I believe of his parents house, not sure. Either way someone got a big WTF is happening moment when the press arrived at their door. I'm not quick to condemn this Marine's family for something stupid he allegedly did.

The Media is acting just as I suspected it would, no surprise there, revealing a name before he's been positively identified, placing this story with a video embedded of the fugitive Marine from NC that killed a female comrade, and I hear they're also interviewing dog owners for their opinion.

Well I'm a dog owner, and although our troops receive yet another blackeye, my thoughts on this align with my fellow mil-spouse, also dog owner, Cassandra, who put's it elequently

however wrong/bad, horrifying and inhumane it may seem, is never going to amount to an act significant enough to encompass the entire war on terror.

So with that thought, I'm going to do what I do best and show what our troops do on a daily basis with very little recognition from the mainstream press.

Starting with BlackFive 's Someone You Should Know

A few stories out of many from MNF-I

A New Plan for Clean Water: One Windmill Pump per Village

Provincial Reconstruction Team Helps Farmers’ Union Grow

MND-N Soldiers detain criminal leader, discover cache

Knee Deep in the Hooah! who currently is in Iraq has this to share - Operation School Supply

we worked hard to get 600+ pounds of donated school supplies to the children in the Diyala Province. The donation was the result of Mike’s request and an email I sent to a friend at the Mead Corporation. Mead donated 600 pounds of school supplies, and friends and church members donated more on top of that.

This platoon leader in Afghanistan describe what his troops are doing.

The word 'infantry' just doesn't seem to cover everything we do here. Over the past couple weeks we escorted doctors and medics all over our area, to treat ailments ranging from TB and polio to impotence and measles. Our mobile footprint was relatively light, but the impact was tremendous. We distributed thousands of dollars in medical supplies, comparable amounts in humanitarian assistance, and even more in medical expertise and personal care. The force behind this operation
was almost exclusively American

82nd DSTB medic prevails under fire in Afghanistan

OP-For highlights An American Hero

and EagleSpeak highlights heros from the past

And it's only befittin to end with The Wolf's story Marines Send Home Some Love

Updates to follow.