51 Infantry Long Range Surveillance Company 45th Military Intelligence Company -- order of battle analysis and imagery interpretation (in Vietnam provided intelligence analysts to the Combined Intelligence Center, Vietnam (CICV) and the Combined Material Exploitation Center (CMEC), deactivated March 1973) Recent controversies Bagram torture and prisoner abuse A platoon of Company A of the 519th, under the command of then Lieutenant Carolyn Wood was implicated in the use of unauthorized interrogation techniques, physical abuse, sexual abuse and the deaths in custody of captives during the fall of 2002. Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse Wood was promoted to captain and placed in command of Company A in 2003 prior to the assignment of the company to lead the interrogations at Abu Ghraib. According to the Fay Report Wood played a key role in the importation of extended interrogation techniques the Bush Administration had claimed could be used against illegal combatants in Afghanistan to Iraq where prisoners were still entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions. Personnel in Company A were implicated in the sexual abuse of captives, and were alleged to have provided guidance to military police to abuse prisoners to soften them up for interrogation. Decorations Vietnam Meritorious Unit Commendation, inscription: VIETNAM 1968-1969 Meritorious Unit Commendation, inscription: VIETNAM 1970 Meritorious Unit Commendation, inscription: VIETNAM 1971-1972 Operation Iraqi Freedom Meritorious Unit Commendation 2007 See also Prisoner abuse References 519