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2012-01-24 Afghanistan

Marine shoots tractor in Afghanistan, career on hold.

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Posted by gorb 2012-01-24 14:34|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Yes, it is an outrage.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2012-01-24 14:50|| 2012-01-24 14:50|| Front Page Top

#2 There is something more going on here. First of all, what is a 1st Lieutenant doing as a Battalion Executive Officer? That is, the Battalion Commander is a LTC, yet there are no Majors or at least Captains as his deputy?

Second, assuming the Majors or Captains are company commanders, this still assumes that there is bad blood between the LTC and the 1LT.

Posted by Anonymoose 2012-01-24 14:55|| 2012-01-24 14:55|| Front Page Top

#3 This is complete and utter BS.

Posted by newc 2012-01-24 15:18|| 2012-01-24 15:18|| Front Page Top

#4 USMC paper-pushers must have thought Lt. Waddell had shot Tractor Ted:

This kind of crap will be the death of us.....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2012-01-24 15:46|| 2012-01-24 15:46|| Front Page Top

#5 It ain't over yet but my guess it's something personal.

Posted by Fat Bob Unotch3711 2012-01-24 17:18|| 2012-01-24 17:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Didn't we learn anything from Vietnam? Political correctness is getting troops killed and charged with ridiculous offenses.

Posted by OCCD 2012-01-24 17:29|| 2012-01-24 17:29|| Front Page Top

#7 The article did not say he was Executive Officer OF the Battalion - it said he was an Executive Officer with (in) the Battalion.

The article assumes causality: A happened, then B happened, thus B was caused by A.

I doubt that things were that simple.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2012-01-24 19:01|| 2012-01-24 19:01|| Front Page Top

#8 The Americans should put Karzai down, on the way out of Afghanistan. And take everything they brought in. What they cannot take, they should burn to the ground.

Posted by Tamir Pardo 2012-01-24 19:46|| 2012-01-24 19:46|| Front Page Top

#9 He was a company executive officer (XO) not a Bn XO, which would be the most senior major in the battalion. Grunt Battalions are ran by LtCol's. I was up in Sangin back in August, it's a fuck story. Should've hit the tractor w/a TOW missile and then pissed on it...then salted the earth beneath...to hell w/Douchebagistan.

Posted by Broadhead6 2012-01-24 19:49|| 2012-01-24 19:49|| Front Page Top

#10 "Waddell had won a Bronze Star"

Written by someone who knows shit about the military, so I ASSume that the rest of the article is garbage.

At least he didnt run into a tractor while jogging...

anyone? anyone?

Posted by Gleregum tse Tung1512 2012-01-24 19:51|| 2012-01-24 19:51|| Front Page Top

#11 It would have been OK if he had called in a drone attack on the tractor. The drone war has special status.

Posted by Super Hose 2012-01-24 21:04|| 2012-01-24 21:04|| Front Page Top

#12 Because teenagers removing a combatant could never possible be anything other than swell kids.

Posted by Rjschwarz 2012-01-24 22:12|| 2012-01-24 22:12|| Front Page Top

#13 On what basis are they verifying the age of the "teenagers?" Are they cross-cutting their legs, and counting the rings? I really find it hard to believe that there is a Konduz DMV issuing valid ID. Ten years ago was Mullah Omar notarizing all the national birth certificates in between stoning adulteresses?

Posted by Super Hose 2012-01-24 22:27|| 2012-01-24 22:27|| Front Page Top

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