>>64370466
>what i love about this picture is how mindbroken by "appeal to authority" people are. "dude he's a some sort of military man" is supposed to be a magic word for "believe everything this man says".
There's an entire industry dedicated to getting people to think the military is really a bunch of a supermen kicking in doors 24/7, and you'd be surprised how many of those people get upset when you start to imply the military is may be staffed by a not small number of illiterates and fratiricidal mentally-ill fuckups. Abu Hajar exists in every army, no exceptions. Here's a story from the second battle of Fort Fisher during the Civil War, the largest amphibious assault prior to D-Day in Normandy, which ended with a Confederate loss. The day after fighting stopped is what we're looking at, though.

>On January 16, Union celebrations were dampened when the fort's magazine exploded, killing and wounding 200 Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners who were sleeping on the roof of the magazine chamber or nearby. U.S. Navy Ensign Alfred Stow Leighton died in the explosion while in charge of a squad trying to recover bodies from the fort parapet. Although several Union soldiers initially thought Confederate prisoners were responsible, an investigation opened by Terry concluded that unknown Union soldiers (possibly drunken marines) had entered the magazine with torches and ignited the powder