CNN is reporting (19.00 middle east time) that five US soldiers have been killed in a fragging incident. Some reports are the shooter killed himself.
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May angles speed them to His rest.
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CNN is reporting (19.00 middle east time) that five US soldiers have been killed in a fragging incident. Some reports are the shooter killed himself.
Developing.
May angles speed them to His rest.
shit happens
Technically true, but perhaps not the best way to say it.
Which is par for the course for our little tube-rat friend.Quote:
Originally posted by Paul in Qatar
Apparently the soldier in question opened fire and killed 5 fellow soldiers and wounded 3 others. This happened in a stress clinic in Baghdad. Incredibly sad that this happened...it seems like the media have completely forgotten that there are still troops in Iraq at all until something like this occurs.
You would think that it would be SOP at a stress clinic to secure all weaponry.
:( Those poor damn guys, including the shooter.
That sucks... :sad:Quote:
Originally posted by Paul in Qatar
I do have to ask though: what does this have to do with geometry?
Usually our souls ascend to heaven in long, graceful arcs. Angles are faster.Quote:
Originally posted by L. G. Butts, Ph.D.
Technically, it's not fragging unless a grenade is involved, but a sad event nevertheless. The NYT says the soldier was taken into custody.
If this is happening in well-disciplined and regulated armies, surely it must be occuring all the time among these guerrilla armies and terrorist militias?
There are no unwounded warriors.
Unless the slang has changed since i served, this doesn't qualify as a fragging for two reasons:
1. A grendade wasn't used.
2. It wasn't an attempt to kill an officer.
When I served, Vietnam was recent history and there were many noncoms and officers who had been there. "Fragging" was used pretty much exclusively to mean killing an officer. According to the war stories, officers were frequently fragged for habitually volunteering their units for high risk assignments.
I grew up with the Vietnam-era definition of "fragging," but my 24 year old brother, who has grown up in the age of first-person shooter video games (especially multiplayer online games), uses "fragging" to mean any act of shooting up a bunch of people, or even just for the act of playing the game.Quote:
Originally posted by Scumpup
The times, they are a-changin'.
You seem sympathetic to them, why don't you tell us?Quote:
Originally posted by ivan astikov
[quote=Whiskey and Ryan]You seem sympathetic to them, why don't you tell us?[/quote:299lfsf9]Quote:
Originally posted by "ivan astikov":299lfsf9
Sympathetic to who? Please do elaborate!
eta - Fuck me, talk about jumping to conclusions?
Perhaps I'm drawing the wrong inference from your statement but your use of the word "surely" in this context draws a mocking tone.
Nah, I'd have done this to it if that was the case.Quote:
Originally posted by Whiskey and Ryan
The statement was only meant to suggest that if our well maintained(ish. There's a few complaints, but the military always wants more money.), well-disciplined troops can act like this, surely(there's that word again!) those rag-tag renegades must be at it all the time.
Now how that implies that I might be sympathetic to said renegades, is any fucker's guess!