Posted on 10/13/2005 12:14:34 PM PDT by SmithL
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier opened fire on a group of fellow soldiers during a morning exercise session at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, on Thursday but no one was injured at the Army base.
The soldier, whose name was not released, "is in custody after firing shots at a physical training formation" but no one was wounded, Fort Campbell said in a statement.
It provided no other details but said the matter was under investigation.
The facility, on the Kentucky-Tennessee border about 60 miles northwest of Nashville, is home to the 101st Airborne Division that has served in Iraq.
Rueters has an agenda to push by cherry picking articles like this and spreading them. Their agenda is to damage the US Military.
So is the AP, Al-Jazeera, BBC, CBS, PMSNBC, ABC, New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, etc., etc.
If we banned all biased sources, Jim Robinson would get pretty lonely over here. Hopefully, intelligent people can read the story, see the bias, and still hold a rational conversation. Unintelligent people are free to go to DUmmieland and be told what to think.
I don't understand what you see in the article that makes it "Breaking News."
During WWII, or shortly after it ended, ca. 1945, an Army captain who had been my 7th/8th grade one-room country school teacher was shot and killed by a U. S. soldier gone berserk, on a stateside U. S. Army post. I learned of it by chance, while idly scanning a newspaper, waiting for a train in Chicago.
Stuff happens.
Mohammed Jihad!
You forgot the "Al-" :-)
I'm sure that movie inspired a lot of young men to enlist. Alvin York was a true American hero.
Great story! This made my day!
Some of Our Nation's Finest narrowly miss being killed, in an unprovoked sniper attack- and YOU CHOOSE TO CAST COWARDLY ASPERSIONS AT THEM?! Not a local resident, are ya, punk?
That wasn't a very well thought out comment.
I'm certain you already know that many of us on FR are former, current, or enlisting into the U.S. Armed Forces.
Quite a few of us will be rather insulted by that comment of yours.
"Did they let the DC sniper out?"
Was his aim that bad?
Thanks for your extremely interesting recollection.
" We never did find out whether he was alive or dead...nor were ever allowed to even ask...
The matter was dropped and never spoken of..at least out loud for the rest of our training cycle"
Different times. Nowadays the DI's actions would be under a magnifying glass. Major concerns: rights of the person he "assaulted", did he use "excessive force", etc. etc. etc.
In other words, treating a soldier like a policeman on the streets of an American city, as if the same standards should apply. Ala Pantano.
"If he wasn't a "bad" shooter, then he certainly did not take an shots that would distinguis him from a miminally capable shooter."
Thanks. And thank God for his relative ineptitude.
"We need to ban the military from having guns!"
LOL!
"I wish men like Hicks would at least write a private memoir for their family, even if it were to remain sealed until after their passing."
I'd like to highly recommend 2 books for your consideration. The Making of a Soldier (Korea) and Soldier (Vietnam), by Lt. Colonel Anthony Herbert, retired. Most decorated US soldier in the Korean war.
"Alvin C. York"
thanks, much.
I'm betting on Mackmood- or Ali Baba- anybody want to start a pool?
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