Posted on 03/01/2005 12:17:17 PM PST by R. Scott
Death Notice Hoax - Be Aware!
Military police are investigating a cruel hoax in which a man wearing an Army dress uniform falsely told the wife of a soldier that her husband had been killed in Iraq. When the 3rd Infantry first deployed to Iraq for the 2003 invasion, some Fort Stewart families reported receiving phone calls from pranksters saying their soldiers had been killed. Be aware of how death notices work in the Army: Two soldiers, including a chaplain, in dress uniform always arrive to tell the family in person. The Army never makes notifications over the telephone.
He's living on borrowed time if he keeps that up.
commie/fascist/socialist/Dum is a mental disease.
They're getting the names of soldiers somehow.
Possibly through people like this poster:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1344443/posts?page=20#20
There are some pprreetttyyy sick people running around.
Or by reading the local paper.
This is exactly the same thing that happened during Vietnam and is why you seldom see military ranks/rates in telephone books.
I remember hearing about it back then. The only defense I see for it is to have all military family members aware of the proper procedure – and ignore the A-holes like this one. Local papers and TV news in a military area will interview departing as well as returning troops. Names are easy to get.
Happens.
Local paper in my area was rather helpful by printing a list of deployed soldiers.
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