What really pisses me off is the actions that were taken against these men, actions taken against the rest of their union and the fact that the Brigade Commander felt the need to apologize before the investigation was completed.

From an article in the Raleigh News and Observer:

Galvin and several other Marines were sent back to Camp Lejeune after the shooting. The rest of the unit was ordered to leave Afghanistan and returned to the ships of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit in the Persian Gulf.

An Army investigation later concluded that 50 people were injured and 19 were killed. The brigade commander in charge of regular forces in the province publicly apologized for the shootings, saying he was ashamed of what had happened.

But a week later, Marine Corps commandant Gen. James T. Conway said the Army officer shouldn’t have apologized because an investigation into what occurred was still ongoing. Nunnally has said he believes three to five people died and less than 19 were injured.

“This is a concurrence that all the Marines on the patrol did the right thing,” said Galvin’s civilian lawyer, Mark Waple.