I wouldn’t want to be that person when these guys are back on their feet.
I half suspect it was a wife that wanted out of a bad marriage.
Poison is the most common means of premeditated murder for a woman.
That's a good bet, but with all the "mentally ill" that are joining up it's any ones guess.
I would not be surprised if we see more of this type of incident.Those "mentally ill" folks get really violent when they feel like someone has disrespected him/her/it.
Yes, it’s largely a “woman thing”.
Wife thing? I’d put money down that Army CID will have this figured out in two weeks.
As I understand the story, this took place on a field training exercise, so I'm not sure how a spurned wife would have been able to poison them in that environment. Not saying it's impossible, but would have had to have been planned out and executed with some difficulty.
That said, one never knows the lengths to which a spurned woman will go. When I was at Fort Riley, Kansas with the First Infantry Division, one summer we deployed to Fort Stewart, GA to support and evaluate some units from the South Carolina ARNG who were our round out brigade. One soldier in our unit had been having an affair with another soldier's wife at Ft. Riley. He had come to Ft. Riley from Ft. Stewart and had another woman waiting for him there when we deployed. The Ft. Riley wife drove all the way from Kansas to Georgia to track him down and confront him and it was not pretty.
I remember out Battalion commander musing about what this guy was packing that would inspire a woman to do that.