I think I’ve only told one of these two stories.
When I was deployed as US Army to Afghanistan, I worked IT help desk. The personnel folks couldn’t handle the forms properly because they were dumb as rocks, so I think I know about all the dishonorable discharges.
We had two that weren’t because of drug use or dealing; the majority were that, not dozens but enough where they kinda blurred. One was a guy who murdered an unarmed Afghani. The Afghani was in the immediate vicinity of a goat, and didn’t seem to have undergarments under his robe. The murder weapon was a helicopter cannon, and the helicopters all had dashcams or whatever. He was sent back for trial, but I want to emphasize that from what I can tell none of the local Afghanis or anyone else cared one bit about the incident. We cared, but no one was on us about it.
Another was a guy who did
exactly this. This was early in the deployment and part of our job was to build the base, there was no American base when we got there, just empty land fenced in and a German military post, so it instead of tents and MREs it was German military trailers and bratwurst for the first little bit.
Anywho, the German military had a little business section built up with a nice little paid restaurant, a bar that served beer (just this one strictly off limits to Americans), a coffee shop, a gym with treadmills etc, and… an internet cafe where you could buy time on the computer very cheap. And being the absolute nerd that I was, when I got done with my duties for the day, I’d be there with the other nerds in uniform. And my best buddy in the Army very quickly shared a discovery with me and the others… there were no blocks. At all. You could go to 4chan.
Yeah, I spent a lot of time on /b/ back then. I’m a recovering edgelord. Sorry.
Fast forward a few weeks, and I don’t know if this soldier i barely knew was actually into it or just trolling way too hard, but the Germans paid our leaders a visit in person. They were there to make an arrest. And what for? Holocaust denial. Legally speaking, he had gone to Germany and said something he wasn’t allowed to say, online.
After that the German Internet cafe was off limits too. I’d already set up ours anyway so didn’t mind much. We had blocks, but I was the guy who made the blocks. 