Posted on 09/16/2013 3:18:06 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: REVEALED: Gunman, 34, who murdered TWELVE and injured 15 in Washington Navy Yard rampage was decorated petty officer who left military in 2011 after previous gun charge
While the motive of Aaron Alexis, the heavily armed gunman who shot dead at least 12 people in cold blood this morning at the Washington Navy Yard has not been revealed, speculation is growing his dismissal from the U.S. Navy for 'misconduct' in January 2011 may have inspired him to commit a deadly revenge.
Alexis, 34, has been revealed to have a prior arrest for letting a gun off that could have harmed his neighbor while he cleaned his own weapon at home in Fort Worth, Texas, 2010.
Despite the lack of acknowledged motive, one U.S. official has been quoted as saying Alexis was kicked out of the Navy in 2011 for 'misconduct' as a direct result of his gun arrest three years ago.
Law enforcement said that Alexis' identity was confirmed by fingerprints and that he served in the U.S. Navy between May 5th, 2007 and January 31st, 2011, the date he was dismissed from the service.
He was awarded the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the National Defense Service Medal prior to his discharge in January 2011.
A U.S. Navy spokesman said that Alexis was an 'aviation electrician's mate' - ranked as a third class petty officer and served at the Naval Air Station in Fort Worth, Texas.
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He is reported to have enlisted in New York and the Brooklyn native graduated from boot camp at Great Lakes, Illinois as an Airman Recruit.
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Im not tired of it at all. My wife can tell just what has happened every time I cheer for HG, or bust out laughing for no apparent reason while Freeping.
She, “Humblegunner get another one?”
Me, “Yep, he can smell them before they hit the “post” button!”
LOL One of the E-5's in my shop was the Work Center Supervisor an E-6 or E-7 billet. I got my Crow about 4 months before I started getting paid for it. Frocking I think it was called. MM's and all engineering ratings when I was in was a critical ratings as far as advancement and retention went. Two years after I got out and was considering going back in the jobs were filled. What a difference the 1980 election made LOL.
Trending on Twitter.... The NRA and AR15s are responsible.
Get one now.
LOL sorry about that I forgot. My Bad. A friend of mine was an instructor out at Idaho back in the early to mid 80's. I think he dealt with the IC end of it.
After I got out a few years later I joined the Army NG for a year. You talk about service cultural shock??? LOL Worse thing was I went into an Artillery Unit. I just spent a good part of this morning at the local VA Audiology Clinic. Gee I wonder why LOL. What hearing the Navy didn't take the Howitzers did.
LOL sorry about that I forgot. My Bad. A friend of mine was an instructor out at Idaho back in the early to mid 80's. I think he dealt with the IC end of it.
After I got out a few years later I joined the Army NG for a year. You talk about service cultural shock??? LOL Worse thing was I went into an Artillery Unit. I just spent a good part of this morning at the local VA Audiology Clinic. Gee I wonder why LOL. What hearing the Navy didn't take the Howitzers did.
USS Hawkbill "Even The Crack Of Dawn Aint Safe"
LOL
USS Hawkbill "Even The Crack Of Dawn Aint Safe"
LOL
Fresh Ensign had the CON? LOL.
Seriously, I would like to know how Hawkbills sail landed in land locked Arco Idaho.
I assume it is do to Lake Pend Orielle.
Thanks. Hadn’t seen that one. Seems rather strange that the FBI was begging the public for info on this guy, and he’s got an established criminal record. Who the hell is this guy’s Daddy?
Didn't Al Gore party at Buddhist temples for campaign cash?
I think so.
You'd never forget either would you? LOL. Just like my buddy Deck Ape and I will never forget our Boat Officer in Venice one night and his navigation charts LOL. After we grounded and we got the boat back out he never uttered another word LOL.
Seriously, I would like to know how Hawkbills sail landed in land locked Arco Idaho. I assume it is do to Lake Pend Orielle.
When the Navy decoms ships they often donate some portions of the hull or insides to other facilities like Great Lakes RTC/NTC or even a local reserve unit. The Island to my ship ended up like that donated to a Navy training school I think in the midwest. Idaho is the Nuke Propulsion Training Facility that likely was the factor for you. Oh and there's a huge Gemini ?? rocket standing at a rest area in Alabama believe it or not. I remember seeing it back in my trucking days.
Just weird. I don't think so. I am nailing it as a diversion.
In the end I think this guy was doing the homegrown terrorist attacks being called for in the middle east.
My son's a "glow worm". NNPTC is in Goose Creek, SC.
How did he get onto the base? No one seems to know, or at least I have not seen news on it.
He would never forget. LOL
Jr Officers caught hell from us.
Yes, Huntsville is well known.
I call BS on this.
This fellow sure spent a lot of supposed time on the East coast for a Texan.
Did he ever deploy?
Seems he spent his entire career around the beltway.
Something is fishy.
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