Vanity Fair: The Good Soldier

WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE reveals how a warrior

fought to become something more: a better man

At 26, army staff sergeant Jess Cunningham had a bright future. He’d been handpicked for Alpha Company—nicknamed “Wolf Pack”—by its hard-driving, charismatic first sergeant, John Hatley. Then, in Iraq, during the surge of 2007, Hatley changed the rules. Dissecting a cold-blooded war crime, and the military’s response.

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