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post #1 of 10
3/22/03 at 10:39pm
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Latest news about the grenade attack at the American base in Kuwait: an American soldier is being questioned in connection. Is this a return to the venerable Viet Nam era tradition of fragging your CO? And doesn't fragging only occur in the field?
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post #2 of 10
3/22/03 at 10:49pm
It can happen on or off the field.
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post #3 of 10
3/23/03 at 12:32pm
nice to see that this fragging took part on behalf of an disgruntled arab-american soldier (for a minute there I thought a redneck from 'Bama had done this).
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post #4 of 10
3/23/03 at 12:44pm
Thread Starter 
Some nice racialist tinges to that post.
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post #5 of 10
3/23/03 at 12:46pm
Quote:
Mike Defeated (Devin):
Some nice racialist tinges to that post.
being that one of our own blew up the building in oklahoma city, i thought that a mcveigh sympathizer had done the job. I was wrong.

so, if i though a r'neck had done it, i'm racist.

if i think an arab had done it, i would would've been accused of racial profiling or racism.

so which is it?

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post #6 of 10
3/24/03 at 6:40am
Does anyone know what happens to someone caught "fragging"??
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post #7 of 10
3/25/03 at 12:19pm
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The Watcher:
Does anyone know what happens to someone caught "fragging"??
My bet would be that they are interrogated for a few days, and then have an "accident" on the way to trial.
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post #8 of 10
3/25/03 at 7:03pm
The UCMJ is painfully clear about TAKING UP ARMS AGAINST YOUR OWN COUNTRY IN A TIME OF WAR. Which is what the soldier did.

No leeway here. In the old days, execution. They might still push that. I would. No excuse for treason.

Take care,
Chuck
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post #9 of 10
3/25/03 at 7:15pm
I waffle somewhat on the death penalty.

But not in this case.

Treason, attempting to kill an XO and fellow soldiers, in a time of war. He's fried.
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post #10 of 10
3/25/03 at 7:25pm
I'm against the death penalty but this guy deserves a bullet through the heart. Keep the death penalty open for treason.
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