Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Army Trainee Hijacks School Bus To Escape Basic Training
Black Rifle Coffee Co ^ | May 7 2021 | Matt White

Posted on 05/08/2021 6:12:59 AM PDT by euram

An Army basic training recruit escaped from Fort Jackson and, brandishing his M4 training rifle, hijacked a school bus full of elementary schoolchildren in nearby Columbia, South Carolina, Thursday morning.

“He told the bus driver he didn’t want to hurt him, but wanted him to drive him to the next town,” Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said during a Thursday press conference.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: army; ftjackson
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-50 next last

1 posted on 05/08/2021 6:12:59 AM PDT by euram
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: euram

The hell with Black Rifle Coffee. They turned on Kyle Rittenhouse SNC supported BLM. Despite their stylish operator beards, they are pussies. I don’t even like seeing their name anymore.


2 posted on 05/08/2021 6:19:00 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: euram

If he really wanted out, all he had to do was tell his Sargent. It is a volunteer force.


3 posted on 05/08/2021 6:19:41 AM PDT by Fai Mao (It is time, past time and almost too late.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: euram

Obiden’s New Model Army?


4 posted on 05/08/2021 6:20:14 AM PDT by Sooth2222 (“Taxation without representation is tyranny.” -James Otis (1761))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: euram

The commander of Fort Jackson, Brig. Gen. Milford H. Beagle Jr., said during the same press conference that Collazo’s instructors described him as quiet and not prone to poor behavior. There was no indication, he said, that Collazo had any intent to harm anyone, but rather he wanted to go home.

The guy pointed a gun at a school bus driver and hijacked a bus full of kids. No indication of harming anyone? He must be a Democrat to get such a lenient downplay of his criminal action.


5 posted on 05/08/2021 6:22:08 AM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: euram
Desertion is a crime, but so is what one should "run" from:

History was made on Friday with the first ever all gay U.S. Navy helicopter crew
Lifesize News ^ | May 7, 2021 | Doug Mainwaring

Posted on 5/7/2021, 10:50:53 AM by White Lives Matter

Under the Biden-Harris administration, the normalizing of homosexuality and transgenderism within the ranks of the U.S. military is accelerating.

“History was made on Friday with the first ever all gay U.S. Navy helicopter crew,” tweeted veteran Navy Intelligence Officer and left-wing activist Travis Akers, along with pictures of the homosexual flyers.

During the previous week, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) announced that a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Initiative Team (LIT) had been formally established under the umbrella of its Barrier Analysis Working Group (BAWG).

“The LGBTQ Initiative Team focuses on the LGBTQ community and identifies and works to resolve the issues that disproportionately impede the success of LGBTQ Airmen and Guardians,” explained a USAF press release. “The creation of this team comes 10 years after the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the legislation that prohibited LGB service members from serving openly. For many of the senior-ranking military members, some of whom served under DADT for nearly two decades, the creation of LIT is a watershed event.”

Maj. Gen. Leah Lauderback, a lesbian and one of the group’s founders, said of the USAF LGBT inclusion endeavor, “I expect our group will grow–our community and allies want to help!”

6 posted on 05/08/2021 6:24:03 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: euram

USAF TI made clear it was his job to track you down if you went AWOL....and he was issued a .38 to carry on the search.....which ALWAYS lead back to the GI’s home.


7 posted on 05/08/2021 6:24:12 AM PDT by G Larry (Force the Universities to use their TAX FREE ENDOWMENTS to pay off Student loan debt!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Flick Lives
The guy pointed a gun at a school bus driver and hijacked a bus full of kids. No indication of harming anyone? He must be a Democrat to get such a lenient downplay of his criminal action.

Your Army is now "WOKE!"

8 posted on 05/08/2021 6:28:35 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: euram
I had a guy go UA on my firewatch. Had to wake up the Senior Drill Instructor (and, of course, the whole rest of the squadbay).

MPs brought the guy back in less than 20 minutes. He had a 'talking to', and behaved after that. Pissed me off.

9 posted on 05/08/2021 6:30:02 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uhh... your opinion, man)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: euram

This is what happens from loosening qualifications for service in the overriding interest of being “more inclusive.”

This current military could never win WWII.


10 posted on 05/08/2021 6:33:06 AM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Fai Mao

Haha! I’m assuming you’re joking.


11 posted on 05/08/2021 6:36:21 AM PDT by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Shut the deuce up!!! I'll do the fighting!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: euram

I’ve got to congratulate him. He’ll escape basic training but graduate directly to the Stockade. Idiot! I hear that Leavenworth is nice this time of year.


12 posted on 05/08/2021 6:37:45 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see... )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

No.

https://work.chron.com/soldier-wants-quit-boot-camp-army-just-release-him-25422.html


13 posted on 05/08/2021 6:40:37 AM PDT by Fai Mao (It is time, past time and almost too late.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Fai Mao

>>If he really wanted out, all he had to do was tell his Sargent. It is a volunteer force.

Not sure it is quite as easy as you make it sound. Yes, you volunteer to join, but that doesn’t mean you can just walk anytime you want.

I may voluntarily sign a contract, but I still have to honor that contract - I don’t get to just cancel it.


14 posted on 05/08/2021 6:43:41 AM PDT by qwerty1234
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Don Corleone

A school bus driver in Norfolk, MA is in trouble for carrying a loaded handgun on his bus. He has become a pariah in the local community. Different circumstances, but he’d be a hero in other states.

Tough call. Remember Chowchilla?


15 posted on 05/08/2021 6:45:33 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
He’ll escape basic training but graduate directly to the Stockade. Idiot! I hear that Leavenworth is nice this time of year.

You forgot he's not white.

16 posted on 05/08/2021 6:50:03 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far: most of the news media is agenda driven, not truth driven.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Flick Lives

He will go home and run for office.


17 posted on 05/08/2021 6:53:08 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are no longer designed to measure public sentiment but to influence it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Fai Mao

Back in 1961, wetting your bed would get you discharged from the Marines. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.


18 posted on 05/08/2021 6:56:55 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: DesertRhino
BLCC are also Hillary donors.

Posers.

19 posted on 05/08/2021 7:04:51 AM PDT by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: euram
“You have 18 kids, various ages, they were asking him questions,” Lott said. “‘Are you a soldier? Are you gonna hurt us? Are you gonna hurt the bus driver?’"

He finally had enough when one kid kept asking "Are we there yet?"

20 posted on 05/08/2021 7:05:43 AM PDT by Enterprise
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-50 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson