U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta answers press questions after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Filipino Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario, and Filipino Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin at the State Department in Washington, D.C., April 30, 2012. DOD photo by Glenn Fawcett
Defense Chief Leon Panetta Implores U.S. Troops To Avoid Misconduct -- L.A. Times
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta made a personal appeal to American troops Friday to refrain from misconduct -- a pointed response to the recent publication of images of soldiers urinating on corpses and posing with body parts, behavior that has complicated the war in Afghanistan.
In a speech at Fort Benning, Ga., Panetta was blunt in his assessment of the breakdown of discipline, saying these incidents “show a lack of judgment, a lack of professionalism, and a lack of leadership.”
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