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Veteran fatally shot at MacDill Air Force Base had record involving threat(FL)
tampabay.com ^ | 21 May, 2010 | Jessica Vander Velde and Kim Wilmath

Posted on 05/21/2010 5:50:46 AM PDT by marktwain

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To: wita

Obviously this guy got out on a medical. Resevists have IDs, even contractors have IDs which allow them to use some base facilities.


21 posted on 05/21/2010 6:52:27 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
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To: hennie pennie
Campgrounds?

How many bases have campgrounds?

Well, the Air Force has them all over the world, but they call theirs "golf courses".
22 posted on 05/21/2010 7:39:41 AM PDT by I Buried My Guns (Novare Res!)
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Do they attract many homeless vets?

The media thinks that all people who live full-time in their motorhomes/travel trailers are "homeless".

It's a standing joke on Recreational Vehicle (RV) forums.

And of course, it's in the presstitute's leftist media handbook that anytime a veteran is involved in an "altercation"", he must (at least initially) be labeled a "homeless vet".

It dredges back up the media's decades long meme that vets are all homeless, drug addicted, bearded and dirty, wearing a dirty fatigue jacket, wild eyed, and mumbling incoherently at everyone who comes within range.

Keeps the leftist media's anti-military meme going strong.

I will pray for the vet and the FBI agent, and their families. A sad story to read this morning.

23 posted on 05/21/2010 9:15:09 AM PDT by Col Freeper (FR is a smorgasbord of Conservative thoughts and ideas - dig in and enjoy it to its fullest!)
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Sorry, but I don't share your obvious contempt of people who served in our military who happen to be currently homeless.

Please save such posturing & lecturing for your cohorts over at DU.

And nobody I've met who owns an RV is anywhere remotely near being homeless --- perhaps you're confusing RVs with hippie buses of olden days, probably still popular with active posters on DU who may even resemble your nasty remarks about homeless people and homeless vets.

Kindly don't direct any more remarks to me; I won't be reading any more of anything you happen to write here.

24 posted on 05/21/2010 10:54:56 AM PDT by hennie pennie
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Lots of bases have campgrounds. Those with trailers, motorhomes, or other vehicles catagorized as Recreational Vehicles (RV’s) hardly qualify as homeless.

Some of those RV’s are in the upper six figures, though most at the base campgrounds are valued in the tens of thousands of dollars.

There is a word in the RV industry for people who live full time in their RV’s. “Full Timer”.

There is a substantial number of full timers in America, complete with web sites, etc.


25 posted on 05/21/2010 11:01:45 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: hennie pennie
Sorry, but I don't share your obvious contempt of people who served in our military who happen to be currently homeless.

Please save such posturing & lecturing for your cohorts over at DU.

And nobody I've met who owns an RV is anywhere remotely near being homeless --- perhaps you're confusing RVs with hippie buses of olden days, probably still popular with active posters on DU who may even resemble your nasty remarks about homeless people and homeless vets.

Kindly don't direct any more remarks to me; I won't be reading any more of anything you happen to write here.

Whoa!

Either I failed completely to convey that I was deriding the media, or you misread my post completely.

DU?, Umm ok.

Well, I own an RV, and many RV forum posters (including me) get tired of media types saying RV owners who Full-time are "homeless".

I'm also a vet, so I wouldn't attack another vet (although, like I posted, the media will almost every time).

Other than this response, I won't post to you again, but I must admit that I'm totally baffled as to your response.

Regardless, have a nice weekend.

26 posted on 05/21/2010 2:25:16 PM PDT by Col Freeper (FR is a smorgasbord of Conservative thoughts and ideas - dig in and enjoy it to its fullest!)
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