An "unhappy and introverted" female soldier was used as a "plaything" by two popular and successful colleagues who raped her following a drunken evening in a corporals' mess bar, a court martial has heard.
In one, a corporal allegedly placed a sandbag over a suspect's face and poked his fingers in the victim's eyes.
In 2007, Michael Sandoval, a corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, was on patrol in Iraq when an Iraqi soldier nearby stepped on an IED.
Before he could complete his dissertation at Columbia he was drafted, and spent two years in Europe as a corporal in the US Army signal corps.
Another member of the group is Nikola Perovic, also 25 and with Serbian ancestry, who likewise reportedly fought in Afghanistan as a corporal in France's 13th Mountain Infantry Battalion.
He attended boarding schools but was called up in 1944 and fought in Europe as a corporal, winning a medal for bravery – though he seldom discussed it.
Their spokesman is Victor Lenta, 25, who earlier told France's Le Monde newspaper (article in French) he had been a corporal in the Third Marine Infantry Paratroop Regiment and had served in Afghanistan, Ivory Coast and Chad.
He enlisted in the Army and served as a corporal in a horse platoon in occupied Germany after World War II.
He then served for two years in the U.S. Army as a corporal in Germany.
The group's second-in-command was Ralph Clark, a corporal who came from a town near Philadelphia.
