U.S. soldier opens fire on fellow troops

Reuters ^ | 10/13/5

[Modok]

Rueters has an agenda to push by cherry picking articles like this and spreading them. Their agenda is to damage the US Military.

[SmithL]

So Rooters is biased? Now there's a surprise.
; )

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.

[Modok]

I don't understand what you see in the article that makes it "Breaking News."

[Elsiejay]

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.

[rlmorel]

Mohammed Jihad!

[steveegg]

Mohammed Jihad!

You forgot the "Al-" :-)

[PeteB570]

I was doing a quick pull down to view the replies and see you handled it.

As I recall the fight deck tapes show he sliding down the nose of his aircraft as the fire burned all around it. A number of brave sailors lost their lives that sad day.

[YoungBlackRepublican]

Hey no need for insults...you must not know me...i was being facetious...sarcastic...Geez..I live in Northern Va and am former military. So, no kidding he couldn't shoot.

[American Quilter]

I'll never forget Gary Cooper in the role.

I'm sure that movie inspired a lot of young men to enlist. Alvin York was a true American hero.

[George Stupidnopolis]

Great story! This made my day!

[Treader]

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?

[Darksheare]

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.

[strategofr]

"Did they let the DC sniper out?"

Was his aim that bad?

[strategofr]

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.

[strategofr]

"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.

[strategofr]

"We need to ban the military from having guns!"

LOL!

[strategofr]

"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.

[strategofr]

"Alvin C. York"

thanks, much.

[eleni121]

Thanks you and your son for his heroism on behalf of all of us...even the jokesters. You know that at least on FR we are 1000% behind our beautiful heroes...

[de Buillion]

"Mohammad, Ahmed, Allahabad, Ahab..."

I'm betting on Mackmood- or Ali Baba- anybody want to start a pool?