Military Campaigns and Civilian Impact

Seems as though we're also seeing records of the number of people who are trying

to leave the military, as you mentioned, as conscientious objectors, and really

they pointed to the specific military campaigns that the United

States has started over the past year.

I spoke to one service member who was deployed in support of Operation Epic

Fury, which of course is the war in Iran, and this person told me that they

believe that they were ordered to target and blow up

and bomb

civilian infrastructure, which of course is a violation of

international

humanitarian law as defined by the Geneva Accord.

I also spoke with two different service members who were, uh, given orders

to support Operation Southern Spear, which of course is the military campaign

that

President Donald Trump began last September, which led to those 60

boat strikes that you were talking to where those vessels

were allegedly carrying

narco terrorists and drugs that were being funneled into the United

States.

They also resulted in at least 210 people who were killed,

and both of those service members say they were concerned that there was a lack of

intelligence or justification for each of these boat strikes.

One of them in particular said, "You can tell yourself what you want at

night and

say they were all precision strikes and they were all planned, but there's at

least one innocent person that I feel like I indirectly

hurt." So it was not just a violation potentially of these

international laws. A lot of them said that they, you know,

cited these surge in civilian death tolls.

Many of them talked about the M- that Manab school bombing that happened in

Iran at the beginning of this war where 150 schoolgirls and

teachers died.