"Former employees of the company’s subsidiary Paravant _ Justin Cannon and Christopher Drotleff _ have been charged with killing two Afghans and injuring a third.
Cannon and Drotleff were not supposed to be armed and had been drinking.
They also probably shouldn’t have been hired by Blackwater at all. Drotleff’s lengthy criminal record included assault and battery, while his three-year career in the Marines ended after seven unauthorized absences, assault and other charges.
Cannon had been discharged from the Army after going AWOL and testing positive for cocaine, although he later petitioned successfully to have his military records changed to an honorable discharge.±AP