This could be another post about our daily dose of gun violence….but it is not…it is about American troops killing other Americans……
In the past it has been SEALs and Marines killing a Green Beret that was scandalous enough..l..but the Navy and the Marines have once again made the news….but this time they are accused of killing an American contractor….
Two Marine Raiders and a Navy corpsman have been charged with involuntary manslaughter, negligent homicide, and other offenses in connection with the death of a Lockheed Martin contractor, who died following a reported fist fight in Iraq, according to Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command.
Rick Anthony Rodriguez, a former Green Beret, died in Landstuhl, Germany, on Jan. 4 after being medically evacuated from Erbil, Iraq.
Todd South of Military Times first reported on Monday that two Marines and one sailor face general courts-martial for Rodriguez’s death: Gunnery Sgt. Daniel Draher, Gunnery Sgt. Joshua Negron, and Chief Petty Officer Eric Gilmet.
https://taskandpurpose.com/marines-sailor-charged-contractor-death
I do not know the particulars but this sounds more like macho bullshit that occurs when alcohol and egos are involved.
The old “who is tougher” scenario……
I have made my opinions known on this type of death before….to refresh everyone’s memory…..
I think it is pathetic that Americans feel that they must kill other Americans….it is PETTY and SMALL.
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Macho-bar-fight-killing is not limited to disputes between members of the military. There are any number of mainstream Trumpian Conservatives itching to use their trigger fingers against Liberals in some great civil war. I’ve met a few of these nutjobs in real life.
In a war zone it is mine is bigger than yours type for mach bullshit……killing a fellow American in a country that would gladly do it for them is plain moronic. chuq
There are always such episodes whenever ‘tough men’ get together. (Sadly)
‘Macho bullshit’ is probably the best description. That usually goes wrong.
Best wishes, Pete.
Amen! chuq
It’s the old kid game of cowboys vs cowboys all grown up. Blame the gun nuts.
It will never change so long as guns control the dialogue in American Politics.
Still has nothing to do with guns….at least this time. I is a couple of drunk Marines and a Navy dude fighting a contractor that is an ex-Green Beret…..mine is bigger than yours….chuq
So it was about knives and tomahawks or bows and arrows?
Nope it is about whiskey and egos chuq
This had nothing to do with guns but rather whiskey and ego and a fist fight….chuq
so they went at it barehanded, did they?
Yes and a hit to the head and the man died after a couple of days….still a pathetic show of macho bullshit chuq
Testerone at work — after all, aren’t they trained to be killers?
They are trained to kill the “enemy” and if a fellow American is the enemy then this is a pathetic indictment on our society. chuq
good then let’s talk tribalism because American society is degenerating into pure tribalism and it is most definitely a pathetic indictment on our society but it’s the way things are going because of our Trend toward more and more diversification…. more and more inclusionism …eroding loss of Traditional Values, decentralization of the family unit, globalization of the mindset, degrading of the educational system and they whole Plethora of other departures from what used to be the norm. It all began with the mistaken concept that cultural diversities could live together in harmony — a theory long since proven to be historically incorrect.
This death had nothing to do with some perceived problem with cultural diversity…it was a couple of drunks fighting in a macho haze of whiskey…..chuq
The cultural influences are always included in every activity whether it be physical self-gratification or interacting aggressively with a fellow human being.
I disagree any logic goes out the sewer when whiskey is involved….this is one group bragging another not agreeing and the fight started and a man died….no justification possible….chuq
you are entitled to disagree.
John.. in traditional fashion you are trying to assign whatever blame there is to assign to “an other”, when it’s really all about human nature. Seems like you prefer to assign all the nation’s ills to something akin to the moral collapse of Rome. Bad morals, loss of the family unit, degrading education, yada, yada.. all the subjective judgement reasons. Hell, our current President exhibits those qualities when you include pervasive immorality.
You’re old school, John. You want a post-war white America back.. and white entitlement. Times change… “the butterfly flapping it’s wing in Siberia…” yada, yada. The population is way too large to ignore globalism… but globalism can be slowed and gradual. Your grandkids will be well into it and accept it. By the way, globalism does not mean we all have to love Islam, which I know is the white nationalist peeve.
I was wondering where you were.