CENTCOM chose yesterday to release a statement that all the unit's M931 Tractors and 5-ton gun trucks have been fitted with fabricated ("hobo") armor, and that all Humvees (now) have been kitted with factory add-on armor.
The fuel contamination issue was not addressed, where there has to be a real paper trail and an NCO or higher who knows that s/he refused the fuel and chose to let someone else "take the heat" via groundstrike or shooting paperwork back at command. At least the brass have stopped asserting that the fuel wasn't contaminated, and by extension, that the unit members were unable to detect dangerous fuel contamination.
Links: A 2nd hand note from a staff officer who spent the Bush I and Clinton 1 and 2 administrations teaching reservists on their options, and my original note, with circles and arrows and all of the overt brat readership on the back of each photo.
Col. Darrell Roll's AR 15-6 hasn't reported out yet. Going in it seemed that the AR 15-6 was going to carefully ignore the possible command element and safety-of-others elements of the unit-level refusal of a direct (stupid, contrary to standing orders, and possibly illegal) order.
I haven't been following the Army TImes' coverage. Last time I checked they were running a rat-fuck-the-troops psyop disguised as a pseudo-poll of "balls-but-no-brains" patriots.
Updates as they come in. Out-of-band communications from carefully-not-dot-mil-or-dot-gov-or-dot-contractor sites accepted, identities will be protected once confirmed.
P.S.
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Its sweet of you guys to still be checking us for your public relations exposure.