The Last Patrol
In 2019, President Trump pardoned Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance, who was serving a 20-year sentence for ordering the murder of two Afghan civilians. To Lorance’s defenders, the act was long overdue. To members of his platoon, it was a gross miscarriage of justice.
By Nathaniel Penn
Photographs by Trent Davis Bailey, Marie D. De Jesús, Joshua Dudley Greer, Olivia Joan, Nate Palmer,
and Lynsey Weatherspoon
and Lynsey Weatherspoon
Illustrations by Jacqueline Tam