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Soldier Found Dead at Fort Bragg Was a Green Beret
Stars and Stripes ^ | 4 December 2020 | Chad Garland

Posted on 12/05/2020 7:37:09 AM PST by Marcell

One of the two men found dead in a training area of a North Carolina base this week had spent about a dozen of his 19 years in the service assigned to Special Forces and U.S. Army Special Operations Command. Master Sgt. William J. Lavigne II, 37, with the command's headquarters and headquarters company, was found dead Wednesday afternoon in the training area on Fort Bragg, along with a veteran previously assigned to the base, the military said in a statement. "The loss of a soldier is always tragic," Lt. Col. Justin Duvall, commander of USASOC's headquarters and headquarters company, said in a statement Friday. Timothy Dumas, a 44-year-old Army veteran from Pinehurst, N.C., was the other man whose body was found, Fort Bragg officials said in a separate statement. The statement did not give further details about his service, and an Army Human Resources Command spokesman reached by phone said additional information was not immediately available.

(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...


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To: billyboy15
That's what occurred to me. “In a training area”,you'd think,would mean some sort of training accident. But if it was the army wouldn't be reluctant to make that clear.
21 posted on 12/05/2020 8:21:50 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (BLM Stands For "Bidens Loot Millions"!)
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To: libertylover

Given their ages and rank I’d say no.Much more likely that a woman’s involved.


22 posted on 12/05/2020 8:24:18 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (BLM Stands For "Bidens Loot Millions"!)
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To: Marcell

The guy paid his dues, whatever brought about his demise. May he RIP.


23 posted on 12/05/2020 8:28:06 AM PST by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE )
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To: Marcell

Indeed. Satan is working overtime. He know his time is short. Look up!


24 posted on 12/05/2020 8:28:16 AM PST by FES0844
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To: Hot Tabasco
Can't read ...

Here is the money quote:

Their bodies were discovered together on Wednesday, prompting an investigation, the Army said. On Friday, officials identified Army Master Sgt. William J. Lavigne II, 37, as one of the men but did not release further information.

Early signs suggest the men may have been engaged in criminal activity before their deaths, according to a defense official familiar with the incident. Their remains were found together in a remote part of the training area, with one body in a car, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the circumstances are under investigation.

It remains unclear what happened at the scene and if other people might have been involved.

25 posted on 12/05/2020 8:29:39 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: PAR35
From the WaPo article: A woman who identified herself as Lavigne’s ex-wife declined to comment and did not provide contact information for his family members. Dumas’s family could not be reached for comment.

A woman is involved.

26 posted on 12/05/2020 8:29:50 AM PST by Jemian (War Eagle!)
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To: Marcell

No one else brought it up so grab your tin foil hats.....

He was killed in Germany in the firefight between Special Forces and the CIA over the Dominion server then transported back to the US.

(ducking)


27 posted on 12/05/2020 8:32:50 AM PST by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: gloryblaze

W/o knowing anything more, the guy in the car murdered the other guy. Then, rigged the car and died of carbon monoxide poisoning. The woman was the catalyst.


28 posted on 12/05/2020 8:33:49 AM PST by Jemian (War Eagle!)
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To: libertylover
"I noticed his National Defense Service Ribbon is on the fourth row at the right. I was thinking there was an assigned order to the ribbons and the National Defense Ribbon went on the first row in the center."

Ribbons are worn according to order of precedence, so the placement of any single ribbon will be determined by it's "rank" relative to any other ribbon(s) worn. As such no particular ribbon will ever be worn in the same place, but will be ordered based on the number of other ribbons, and what they all are.

29 posted on 12/05/2020 8:40:11 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: jdsteel
He wasThey were killed in Germany in the firefight between Special Forces and the CIA over the Dominion server then transported back to the US.
30 posted on 12/05/2020 8:54:40 AM PST by Grampa Dave (A society's first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions & moral values. W. Williams)
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To: Hot Tabasco

No paywall for me, but this might work:

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31 posted on 12/05/2020 9:08:35 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

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32 posted on 12/05/2020 9:37:00 AM PST by 31R1O
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To: Hot Tabasco

How to avoid paywalls:

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33 posted on 12/05/2020 9:40:21 AM PST by 31R1O
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To: jdsteel

that was my first guess


34 posted on 12/05/2020 10:00:27 AM PST by SisterK (its a spiritual war )
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To: Jemian

Sounds more like a woman who chooses to not be involved.


35 posted on 12/05/2020 10:58:42 AM PST by PAR35
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To: jdsteel

I like your theory better than mine. But I still think mine is better than the folks that think a chick is involved.


36 posted on 12/05/2020 11:00:45 AM PST by PAR35
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To: Patriot_MP
"Fort Bragg -— so much goes on inside that base... if the public knew — they would be terrified... crazy place Fayetteville is..."
I did my second Basic as an intelligence analyst there. I got guard duty one night guarding the motor pool with an empty riffle and saw a bunch of guys climbing over the 8 ft fence. I call the sergeant of the guard who said, "Oh, it's just the Green Berets having fun. Don't worry about it."
37 posted on 12/05/2020 11:04:59 AM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Hiddigeigei

I remember being at Fort Huachuca — they caught a supply sgt re-routing one of the Abrams out to an under cover FBI agent... a MAIN BATTLE TANK — as if that could be written off as a field lost... the Army — good times!


38 posted on 12/05/2020 11:20:50 AM PST by Patriot_MP (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Jemian

Or no women involved at all


39 posted on 12/05/2020 11:28:36 AM PST by falcon99 (qu)
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To: Marcell

Foul play is suspected in deaths of Special Forces soldier, 37, and a veteran, 44, whose bodies were discovered in a training area on Fort Bragg.

Bodies of Master Sgt. William Lavigne II, 37, and Army veteran Timothy Dumas, 44, who previously served at Fort Bragg were found on the base on Wednesday.

Source said one of the bodies was found lying flat, while the other was wrapped in a blanket next to a pickup truck.

Army officials said two men were found in a training area, but their deaths were not related to official unit training
Lavigne was a Special Forces soldier who served 19 years in the military and deployed multiple times to Iraq and Afghanistan ].

By SNEJANA FARBEROV FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 12:45 EST, 4 December 2020 | UPDATED: 17:12 EST, 4 December 2020

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9019245/Master-sergeant-Army-veteran-dead-training-area-Fort-Bragg.html


40 posted on 12/05/2020 11:43:42 AM PST by Grampa Dave (A society's first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions & moral values. W. Williams)
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