User:Geo Swan/FOB Ripley beating incident of July 2005

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Several American soldiers were convicted for beating captives at Forward Operating Base Ripley in July 2005.

FOB Ripley is an American base in Tarin Kowt, the capital of Oruzgan Province.

David R. Irvine, a former Law Professor and retired Brigadier General compared Myricks sentence for beatings to the lack of charges against commissioned officers in earlier murder incidents.

On January 30, 2006 Myricks was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to maltreat and two counts of maltreatment in the beating of Afghani captives. He was reduced in rank to private, and sentenced to six months imprisonment. A subordinate, Specialist James Hayes, was convicted of a role in the same beatings on January 28, 2006. The beatings the soldiers were convicted for took place in July 2005.