As he rhapsodizes in his Iran war briefings about maximum violent death and destruction “without mercy,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth could be back in Iraq two decades ago, when he was a platoon leader attached to a unit nicknamed “Kill Company.”
Officially designated Company C, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team (the Rakkasans) of the 101st Airborne Division, the unit maintained a white Dry-Erase board dubbed “the kill board” that kept a running body count.
“Let the bodies hit the floor,” read a notation at the bottom.
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