Wesley Clark???
Could the last name be Al-something?
Mohammed, by any chance?
Aw, come on, give us his name. There's something that we're all kind of curious about...
Why do I get the feeling that this "soldier" faces a particular direction while praying 5 times daily?
If it was an accident discharge the idiot. If it was on purpose hang the treasonous POS.
Poor shot. Did they let the DC sniper out?
Hmmm...after the attack, did the soldier file for three Purple Hearts?
Full Metal Jacket?
Nobody is that bad a shot.
He should still be in a world of hurt for putting people at risk (assuming he just fired over their heads).
FYI. News?
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) -- Military police on Thursday arrested a soldier after he fired five shots into a group of fellow soldiers who were doing physical training.
The shooting happened around 7 a.m. CDT near the 1st and 2nd Brigade headquarters, with the man being arrested a short time later, said Cathy Gramling, a Fort Campbell spokeswoman.
"Military police apprehended the solider and brought him into custody. He did have a weapon, it was a handgun, nonmilitary issue," Gramling said.
Soldiers on military installations are not allowed to carry personal weapons or have unregistered firearms in their quarters or rooms, officials said.
The soldier has not been identified. No one was injured in the shooting and charges have not been filed, officials said. (It is too early for charges to be filed. Since this happened on the base, the MPs and CID will investigate. Then his commanding officer will consult with the prosecutors at the local JAG office. They will draw up court-martial charges. Then the commander will read the charges to the soldier and send them up the chain of command with his recommendations for the level of court-martial. In this case, probably attempted murder and a general court-martial will be convened. This guy is probably being held in what is called "pre-trial confinement" at the Fort Campbell post confinement facility.)
It is unknown if the soldier belonged to the unit fired upon.
Fort Campbell officials declined further comment. Fort Campbell, a sprawling military base on the Kentucky-Tennessee state line, is home to the 101st Airborne Division as well as Special Forces. Soldiers from the post have been deployed to both Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001.
Currently, nearly 17,000 troops from Fort Campbell are deployed to Iraq.
Any freeper remember?
Yikes.
Hicks simply dodged the bullets went from fighting hole to fighting hole leaping frogging his way toward the perp.
Hicks charged the perp while he was trying to change out magazines, disarmed him and proceeded to demonstrate to us what an effective club an M-14 can make...
SSGT Hicks was like Superman to us Ft Campbell maggots after that...I don't think even the DIs from our company who had seen action in Korea and Vietnam had ever seen anything quite like this even in their careers..
SSGT was a decorated Vietnam vet with a face and back full of wound scars... he did not talk about..nor would he suffer anyone asking.
From what I understand the courage he demonstrated that day was not unusual for the guy...and he was a heck of a DI as well as soldier..
What happend to the perp?...well an ambulance came to take away the remains and we were all ordered to about face when they loaded him up...
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..
I don't even know if SSGT Hicks was decorated for what he did....I suspect not...but Hicks could've cared less for that kind of attention..
He already had more combat medals than any other of our DI's
Always remained a quiet man...that no one ever messed with, talked back to or did not stand in awe of...
imo
profile?
What would be the excuse for not giving the name? About all I could come up with would be a conspiracy? Are they trying to avoid spooking accomplices?
Wierd.