Posted on 11/05/2009 1:54:35 PM PST by dragnet2
U.S. SOLIDIER
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Food for thought..
This is a third hand unverified post. husband’s buddy said that.....
whether a us soldier or not I KNOW for a fact that not all soldiers are citizens and not all uniformed folks are actually soldiers.
When they give the name and rank of said personnel maybe I will believe it
Oh - them .....
My son is a new soldier at Ft. Leonard Wood, MO I’m sick reading this news.
I’m going to his graduation from OSUT (combined basic combat training and AIT (Military Police) in 3 weeks.
May God bless and keep all our servicemen and women.
Where did you read that?
This was an organized attack carried out by several shooters who were apparently soldiers. Question is were they sleepers (al Quaeda) who joined the military so they could launch an attack at a designated time and are there other military bases that could come under a similar attack in the near future?
1 shooter had 2 hand guns.
A lot of those men went in in December 1941 and didn’t get home again (except in some cases for a 30 day leave somewhere) until 1945.
Pointing this out does not in any way diminish the respect I have for what our troops must do in this environment.
I’m sorry, I don’t believe that this was a US soldier. I believe that he was in fatigues. But . . .
What a sick, sad thing - to have this happen as the men and women were about to be deployed?
God bless our men and women at Fort Hood. God bless their families. God bless the wounded and the loved ones of the dead.
And thank the Lord that His decree has at least in part been carried out: those who spill the blood of man will have their own blood spilled by man.
God bless our State of Texas and our United States.
The Greatest Generation when to war and stayed pretty much for the entirety of the war with little breaks between. Tours? How about nearly four consecutive years worth? Stress? I can't imagine the horrors they witnessed in that war compared to the video game style of warfare soldiers today are involved with. Stress? Non-stop battles for weeks - sometimes months during WWII. Nothing in this war even comes close.
Baten down the hatches and put the world on notice!
“...with an arabic name.”
Hussein, perhaps?
There isn’t anything that the “greatest generation” military didn’t do in spades. It was a massive draftee military of many millions that covered the entire rainbow of human behavior from heroic to horrible.
The ‘greatest generation’ wasn’t at War for over 8 years, nor did they have as many tours as our soldiers have done.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Right you are, but look who they were fighting. We had 14,000,000 (includes 10 million draftees)engaging a superior trained enemy on 3 fronts. Europe, Pacific and CBI. No multiple tours, they were in it for the duration. The ROE was simple too, “win it”.
NBC is reporting shooter was a Major with an “Arabic-sounding name” WTF. True? ...what now?!?!?
So what are the odds they were part of a government or military psychiatric or Combat Stress program?
"How about a game of Solitaire, Raymond?"
If this gets spinned as "right-wing extremists" that would be a little too convenient
right after the Democrats' defeats in Virginia and New Jersey...
Sure, I understand. But, back then you ‘knew’ who you were fighting. The stress levels are different.
That quote isnt on that link anymore.
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