Posted on 05/21/2010 5:50:46 AM PDT by marktwain
TAMPA Ronald Bullock made MacDill Air Force Base his home even though he was no longer in the military.
Decades had passed since a grenade blew up on him in Vietnam, rendering him disabled, his brother said. But as a veteran with a military ID, he could stay at the base's campground for six months at a time.
Bullock, 61, didn't have a family or a job. He told his uncle he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
"He took a mess of pills to keep him going, to keep him cool," said his uncle, Phil Sullivan, 80, of Tampa.
Ever since Vietnam, he struggled with drugs and alcohol, his brother said. In 1994, Bullock got four years of probation for aggravated assault on a public servant in Texas. Three years later, he was found guilty of possession of a controlled substance.
Still, his family never thought it would come to this.
Three officers knocked on Sullivan's door Wednesday night and explained that Bullock had been involved in an altercation at MacDill.
He had confronted an off-duty FBI agent with a knife, they said.
That agent fatally shot him.
"They said there was an altercation," Sullivan said. "Everybody uses that word: 'altercation.' "
Officials have released few details about the altercation. His family said they also have few details.
"I don't have any information. I only know what I've read," said his brother, Donald Bullock of North Carolina. "But it doesn't seem like his character. He wasn't a violent person."
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Obviously this guy got out on a medical. Resevists have IDs, even contractors have IDs which allow them to use some base facilities.
Campgrounds?Well, the Air Force has them all over the world, but they call theirs "golf courses".How many bases have campgrounds?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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