Maritime ex soldiers sentenced in india

[Gil Boyd]

How times have changed.
Governments gave their blessing to ex soldiers to man ships to protect their assets when it suited them in those early days of severe piracy in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf where crews were being slaughtered or held ransom, and the Governments from all nations couldn't do the work themselves with their own troops.
However, those very same Governments disown the guys when the preverbial hits the fan.
When it goes wrong, it goes horribly wrong and this is a case in point:

India firearms charge ex-soldiers sent to jail - BBC News

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