South Vietnam

Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence, but served only three-and-a-half years under house arrest.

The My Lai massacre was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people—women, children and old men—in the village of My Lai on March 16, 1968.

After the Tet Offensive in early 1968, a majority of the American public came to view the war as a mistake, and the subsequent cover up of My Lai served to deepen people’s despair that the war could ever be won.

After reviewing the conclusions of the court-martial, Court of Military Review, and Court of Military Appeals, Callaway reduced Calley’s sentence to just 10 years.

William Laws Calley Jr. —was ever convicted. He was found guilty in 1971 of murder and sentenced to life. (President Nixon changed Calley’s sentence to house arrest, and he served about three years.

Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment conducts Basic Combat Training (BCT) in order to provide physically fit, disciplined, motivated Soldiers who understand the Army Values, are instilled with the warrior ethos, and can immediately contribute to their first unit of assignment.

22 civilians

The war was started by the leaders of Germany and Austria-Hungary. Vienna seized the opportunity presented by the assassination of the archduke to attempt to destroy its Balkan rival Serbia. The best that can be said of German and Austrian leaders in the July crisis is that they took criminal risks with world peace.