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Next, he described finding the remains of children in a mass grave uncovered while his unit constructed a combat outpost: "One private...found the top part of a human skull... As he marched around with the skull on his head, people dropped shovels and sandbags, folding in half with laughter ... No one was disgusted. Me included."
Finally, Beauchamp described another soldier "who only really enjoyed driving [[Bradley Fighting Vehicle]]s because it gave him the opportunity to run things over. He took out curbs, concrete barriers, corners of buildings, stands in the market, and his favorite target: dogs." Beauchamp described how the soldier killed three dogs in one day: "He slowed the Bradley down to lure the first kill in, and, as the diesel engine grew quieter, the dog walked close enough for him to jerk the machine hard to the right and snag its leg under the tracks."<ref name=Beauchamp2007-07-23>{{cite magazine |first=Scott |last=Thomas |authorlink=Scott Thomas Beauchamp |title=Shock Troops |url=http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20070723&s=diarist072307 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20071002041929/https://ssl.tnr.com/p/docsub.mhtml?i=20070723&s=diarist072307 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-10-02 |magazine=[[The New Republic]] |page=56 |date=2007-07-23 |accessdate=2007-08-08 }}
=="Baghdad Diarist"==
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In a follow-up posting on ''The New Republic'', Beauchamp objected to charges of falsification: "It's been maddening...to see the plausibility of events that I witnessed questioned by people who have never served in Iraq. I was initially reluctant to take the time out of my already insane schedule fighting an actual war in order to play some role in an ideological battle that I never wanted to join."<ref name=Cohen2007-07-28/>
''New Republic'' editor [[Franklin Foer]] disclosed that Beauchamp is married to [[Elle Reeve]], a former ''New Republic'' reporter and [[fact checker]] who currently works for CNN, and that his relationship with Reeve was "part of the reason why we found him to be a credible writer."<ref name=Kurtz2007-07-27>{{cite news |first=Howard |last=Kurtz |authorlink=Howard Kurtz |title=Army Private Discloses He Is New Republic's Baghdad Diarist |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/27/AR2007072700037.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=C07 |date=2007-07-27 |accessdate=2007-08-08}}</ref> Accused of insufficient fact-checking, the magazine had, according to Foer, planned to "re-report every detail",<ref name=Cohen2007-07-28/> but the magazine later stated that their investigation was "short circuited" after the Army severed Beauchamp's communications with anyone overseas.<ref name=TNR2007-08-02>{{cite web |url=http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w070730&s=editorial080207 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814205024/http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w070730&s=editorial080207 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-08-14 |title=A Statement on Scott Thomas Beauchamp |accessdate=2007-08-08 |date=2007-08-02 |work=The New Republic Online |publisher=[[The New Republic]]}}
==''New Republic'' investigation==
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{{cquote|During that investigation, all the soldiers from his unit refuted all statements that Pvt. Beauchamp made in his blog.<ref>{{cite news |author=John Milburn and Ellen Simon |title=New Republic Iraq Stories Questioned |url=https://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2007-08-09-3160847497_x.htm |agency=Associated Press |date=2007-08-09 |accessdate = 2007-10-02}}</ref>}}
A July 31, 2007 memorandum from Major John D. Cross, the Investigating Officer, entitled "Legal Review of AR 15-6 Investigation Regarding Allegations of Soldier Misconduct Published in ''The New Republic''" found:<ref>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Legal_Review_of_AR_15-6_Investigation_Regarding_Allegations_of_Soldier_Misconduct_Published_in_The_New_Republic.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>
* That the incident of blatant disrespect for a disfigured woman in the FOB Falcon DFAC is a tale completely fabricated by Private Beauchamp. (The New Republic issued a correction saying the story took place in Kuwait, not Iraq.)
* That the desecration of human remains and the discovery of a "Saddam-era dumping ground" is false.
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