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MODERATOR. Any of you gentlemen here on the panel, could you release
any incidents of fragging that you ever heard of or saw?

MODERATOR. Mr. Bangert, you said you had an incident of this.

BANGERT. I guess the majority of us had been in country for about nine
or ten months and this new guy came. The new guy was a lifer. A lifer
was in charge of the mail. He stopped the mail for about three days
because he wanted his troops to shine their shoes or something or
clean up or shave or get a haircut and he stopped the mail. So someone
told him if we don't get mail by noon on a specific day before
midnight, that night you're going to be offered. But since he was hard
and he was in the Korean War, he thought that what happened in the old
Marine Corps is happening in Vietnam, he persisted and the mail wasn't
gotten out and before midnight he was fragged. And the mail did come
through the next day.

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Joe Bangert has not let these posts to usenet go unchallenged. He has posted replies on some of the threads.

First, however, as a way to establish his bona fides, here is a post from the same email address, which shows we are dealing with the real Joe Bangert:

Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War
W. D. Ehrhart

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Hippy VV mbr VVAW E-6 from PA dumps cold H2O on YKW! July 10, 1998

Reviewer: bai@capecod.net from Hanoi, Viet Nam, Quang Tri and Brewster, MA.(USA) CC

Passing Time's time pasting took only one night! In that time W. D. Ehrhart flashed me back to '70, 68, 69, 71, and the nitexmasarclights of '72, Ho ho ho chi minhnity returns with both laughter and extreme anger! Ah! The ying and yang of it to me who calls Bill and old old dear friend whom I had never availed myself to his insight and wit like I did last night with Passing Time! Five stars *****, but never too soon to be a new motion picture. Of an old e-6 hippy from Perkasie, Pa, who graduated from Swarthmore College and worked at sea like all "Old Salt" gyrenes who went a few places, saw a few things and still live to tell about it in all speldid details from the heart. Perspicatious (if that can be now a new adjective!) jvb

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Which raises a question about the Winter Soldier Follies: Why didn't anyone ask the question, "What did you do about it? As a matter of fact, that question is conspicuously absent throughout the testimony. Bangert apparently did nothing, and that's just okay by the WS Follies. What do you think?

I think that Bangert is a load of Bravo Sierra.