[Senator Goldwater]

"There are also several hundred civilian contract employees"

Do we know it was a soldier?

[Texas Eagle]

The sexual assault apparently occurred late Friday or early Saturday....

Where was Her Royal Heinous Sir Hillary of Pumpkin Patch at the time?

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Assuming this story is true and not a new way to Goldbrick her way back to the states, how the hell does a woman get raped in a combat zone?

Does she not carry her beretta with her everywhere even if she leaves her rifle in her bunk? Where is her combat knife? I have a hard time believing someone goes out raping amongst that many armed people.

Call me a skeptic but it sounds more like a story to get shipped back stateside.

I hope the Brigade never gets attacked while they are going potty.

[Prodigal Son]

It turned out that a soldier from another unit in the brigade had found the rifle but failed to report the recovery until after the whole brigade started looking for it.

LOL, that's entirely typical and the entire rationale behind lock-downs.

Our company lost a pair of binos once in garrison on a Friday morning. We had a lockdown. We turned the barracks upside down. Couldn't find it. Along about 10 PM that night (when everybody would normally be going out to the local pubs on Friday night) the binos miraculously turned up in a clothes dryer. I guess whoever had ganked them figured one pair of military binos weren't worth never going to the pub again.

It's interesting the way the military can make things happen within its society that would never fly in a free one.

[LouD]

Rape is a heinous offense, but "ongoing pilfering in the motor pool" is the way the Army works.

Is there another way to get pioneer tools?

[wolficatZ]

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/7373018.htm

[Porterville]

They should keep this stuff internal during times of war and hang the bastard if he is military under military law.

[FreedomPoster]

Ping

[WolfRunnerWoman]

Reality Check here, folks... As a former Military Police, I can tell you that if you've got over 9000 soldiers stationed anywhere, you're gonna have crime. Simple as that. Folks, these people aren't all Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Any problems or predispositions they had before joining, come with them. The Libs will probably make a big fat hairy deal out of this, but it is not an uncommon occurrence. I feel bad for her if indeed she was raped, but let’s not make more of this than it is.

[Britton J Wingfield]

All the soldiers have their DNA on file in their medical records. Should be easy enough to catch.