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Chuck Hustmyre spent 22 years in law enforcement and retired as a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). During his career he specialized in violent crime, narcotics, and fugitive investigations.
Chuck is an award-winning investigative journalist and the author of the true crime books An Act of Kindness (Penguin/2007) and Killer with a Badge (Penguin/2004), and the novel House of the Rising Sun (Salvo Press/2004).
His article “Blue on Blue: Murder, Madness, and Betrayal in the NOPD” (New Orleans Magazine, February 2005) was selected for the 2006 edition of HarperCollins’ annual nonfiction book Best American Crime Writing.
How exactly did we get here?
The United States has been fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq (yes, we still have troops fighting there) for 15-plus years. Those troops are saddled with more rules of engagement than you can shake a stick at (at least they were under Obama; perhaps that has eased somewhat).
