Posted on 10/29/2007 11:04:49 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet
just breaking....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Hopefully he wasn't punching an 30 day overseas combat tour.
One is never too old to get a purple heart on the battlefield...
that’s true. but still, I’d see guys come to theater for a short period of time, write a report, and disappear. Bless his health.
yeah, for a second I thought it was my brother, at least that’s what I used to call him.
He’s already in Germany in the hospital according to the latest report on FOX
Just a question:
When was the last time a general officer was killed in the line of duty? Vietnam? Korea? WWII?........
“Brig. Gen. Dorko, who will be headquartered in Baghdad, comes to GRD from a tour as Commander and Division Engineer, U.S. Army Engineer Division, Southwestern, headquartered in Dallas. He has been visiting his areas of future responsibility in Iraq and quipped that he doesn’t yet know what he doesn’t know.”
Looks like he was to be there for a while. Now he needs an interim relief.
Elaborating on his philosophy, Brig. Gen. Dorko said, "We're a service organization" whose list of clients prominently includes the Iraqi people. He said much remains to be done after provinces are turned over to Iraqi control and told his audience that "we have a huge role in all that."
I wish the general well, and hope he pulls through this OK. Having said that, I must point out that this is not a quote that I would associate with a military force at war. Building civilian infrastructure in a war zone never made any sense to me.
That’s a good question.
I think a general officer died in a Helicopter Crash in Vietnam...will have to check on that.
Gen. Patton Died in a jeep accident right after WWII just ended...
Everyone knows that there was a second jeep in Patton’s death :)
I asked that question a few months ago, and got an answer. If someone doesn’t provide the info soon, ping me, and I’ll try dig out the reply I got. The answer was Vietnam, I don’t recall the name.
And as fast as possible. The more stories the locals hear about infrastructure improving, the more good PR for our cause, which contributes to the anti-terror war effort overall.
I’m pretty sure there has been at least one General who died in Vietnam, but I don’t think it was in actual combat. But in actual combat I’m pretty sure it was WWII and he was killed by friendly fire. I would have to look it up to give the exact details, but it was during a bombing campaign to force the Germans out of the hedgerows in France, the bombs were dropped too soon. He had gone to the front lines to report back to Bradley if the bombing was effective....I guess Bradley got his answer.
"On December 9, 1945, in Germany a day before he was due to return to the United States, Patton was severely injured in a road accident. He and his chief of staff, Major General Hobart R. "Hap" Gay, were on a daytrip to hunt pheasants in the country outside Mannheim. Their 1939 Cadillac Model 75 was driven by PFC Horace Woodring (1926 - 2003). Patton sat in the back seat, on the right with General Gay on his left, as per custom. At 11:45 near Neckarstadt, (Käfertal), a 2½ ton truck driven by T/5 Robert L. Thompson appeared out of the haze and made a left-hand turn towards a side road. The Cadillac smashed into the truck. General Patton was thrown forward and his head struck a metal part of the partition between the front and back seats. Gay and Woodring were uninjured. Paralyzed from the neck down, George Patton died of an embolism on December 21, 1945 at the military hospital in Heidelberg, Germany with his wife present."
He’s a military engineer. They’re a bit of a special case. Army engineers aren’t primarily warfighters - though they often work while under fire. Their task is battlefield (and other) construction and demolition.
I believe that was General Bruno Hochmuth...he ran MCRD San Diego when I was a lowly maggot.
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