re: the caissons keep rolling along
First, how the hell do you know they're civilians? Remember, they don't come in uniforms in this war.
Second, you seem astonished that violence would be used in the capture of enemy personnel. Cripes, someone pointed a GUN at a prisoner! What next?
If there is wrongdoing here, it's in photographing prisoners unnecessarily, a violation of standards.
By the way, your header is an Army song, not a Navy one.