Army Concluded Beauchamp Investigation at FOB Falcon

According to Matt Sanchez, who is at FOB Falcon, the investigation into Beauchamp's allegations and stories has been completed. Sanchez states on his blog the following:

"refuted by members of his platoon and proven to be false"

That's going to leave a mark.

If that's the case, what exactly is TNR saying when they claim that they corroborated Beauchamp's stories. Something is being lost in the translation. TNR and the US Army both can't be right here. Someone isn't being straight, and I have to believe that the US Army, who has access to all the soldiers in the units affected, plus Pvt. Beauchamp, has conducted the more thorough investigation than TNR's half-assed assertions of completeness and confirmation of Beauchamp's statements. In other words, TNR is in trouble here. Serious trouble.

Indeed, if you actually read TNR's statements, you'd note that they had to admit that the original Beauchamp story regarding the dining hall incident didn't even occur in Iraq - it occurred in Kuwait and at a completely different facility and timeframe. That casts the entire incident in doubt - along with Beauchamp's credibility about the remaining incidents. If such a basic fact as to time and place could be so horribly wrong, what about the remaining incidents alleged?

According to the Army, there is no truth to the matters asserted.

As usual, Ace is on top of the case.

Michael Goldfarb is trying to track down whether the incident could have occurred in Kuwait at Camp Buehring. So far, no luck, but that isn't to say that the woman in question could not exist. He also points out a series of emails between himself and TNR Editor Foer, who stated that the incident occurred at FOB Falcon, not Camp Buehring, despite being in contact with Beauchamp once the kerfuffle erupted. Something stinks - and it is Foer's conduct trying to rewrite the narrative.

I expect the PAO of FOB Falcon, Major Luedeke, will issue a statement detailing what was discovered and found in more detail - a blow by blow accounting, along with the disposition of the case if such information is not going to affect Beauchamp's rights under the UCMJ or operational security.

For now, it would appear that TNR and Pvt. Beauchamp better be preparing themselves for the hammer dropping hard on them.

UPDATE:
Bob Owens at Confederate Yankee has been trying to corroborate the details of the dining hall incident that was first attributed by Beauchamp, Foer, and TNR to FOB Falcon but corrected yesterday to Camp Beuhring in Kuwait. He received an email from a PAO in Kuwait, and the PAO in Kuwait, Major Renee D. Russo, Third Army USARCENT, PAO responding to whether she knew of "a female civilian contractor at Camp Buehring with severe facial burns, and if so, when" she was there. Her response was that this is considered an urban legend or myth. Ouch.