Marine dies from non-hostile gunshot wound (# 2155 )

[leftchick]

December 17, 2005
Release A051217b

Marine dies from non-hostile gunshot wound

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq – A Marine assigned to the 2nd Marine Logistics Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), died from a non-hostile gunshot wound here, Dec. 16.

The name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of next of kin and release by the Department of Defense.

The incident is currently under investigation.


http://www.mnf-iraq.com/Releases/Dec/051217b.htm

[xchrom]

1. pretty hostile if it kills you, isn't it?

i mean at least to this guy's body anyway.

[hadrons]

2. non-hostile gunshot wound = suicide

[leftchick]

4. that is what I thought

:cry:

[IndianaGreen]

10. Exactly, another suicide!

Who knows how many ticking time bombs will return from Iraq and how many we already have here?

[benEzra]

12. Or an accident?

non-hostile gunshot wound = suicide

Not necessarily, I would think. It would seem that mistaken identity, "friendly fire", or a simple negligent discharge by the victim or someone else could also be classed as a "non-hostile gunshot wound."

[RamboLiberal]

19. Probably suicide - but couldn't it also be homicide?

Local soldier from my area was murdered last month by a fellow soldier in Iraq. Shot multiple times. And the Army was not very forthcoming about the cause for a couple of weeks.

[displacedtexan]

3. Doesn't that translate as "No benefits awarded?"

I think it does.

Especially if it's ruled a suicide.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Welcome to the Desert of the Real

...

[Joey Liberal]

6. This has become all too common over there

It's a shamee and may he rest in peace.

[allisonthegreat]

8. Just awful..

The more I hear about things like this it just reaffirms over and over we had no right being there in the first place...

[Joey Liberal]

9. Hey allisonthegreat

I'm from the Parts Unknown State in the Bush Brothers Banana Republic. How are things over in theothersideofnowhere?

[llmart]

7. Well, if it was "non-hostile"......

that makes it alright. Give me a break. Dead is dead and the soldier wouldn't be dead if Bush hadn't invaded a sovereign nation.

He's a war criminal/coward.

[hack89]

14. So suicides and accidents don't happen at home? nt

[manic expression]

16. Are you serious?

Soldiers commit suicide primarily because of the ills that war puts upon them.

Combat trauma DOESN'T happen at home. Hopelessness and acute home-sickness DOESN'T happen at home. The guilt of knowing your squad gunned down an innocent family DOESN'T happen at home. Just about everything that drives so many soldiers to depression and mental stress does not happen at home.

[hack89]

17. self deleted

[Ernesto]

11. Surprised? It's just another swell by-product of going to war

Think about it folks: take a stressed out bunch of kids add live ammo and bingo! Shit happens.
I saw way too many "friendly fire" incidents that happened @ LBJ's quagmire.

[0007]

13. Stack em up!

Grass Bush

Pile the bodies high in Austerlitz and Waterloo Iraq
Shovel them under and let me work--
I am the grass; bush; I cover all.

And pile them high in Gettyburg Baghdad
And pile them high in Ypres and Vedum Mossoul and Al Fallaujah

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?

I am the grass bush.
Let me work.

Carl Sandburg

Bring the troops home a live & not in boxes

[deadparrot]

15. RIP.

...

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

18. Perhaps he was fragged?

I'm surprised fragging has not become epidemic by now- perhaps it HAS. They're just not talking about it.

[madmark]

20. sad. this type of duty will push guys in ways that more conventional

theatres would not.

[Voltaire99]

23. You mean brutalizing an innocent society?

Yeah, that kind of "duty" will fuck you up well and good.

[Erika]

21. And we are in Iraq because?

How many countries are led by ruthless dictators. But Iraq had oil. You know, W's life blood.

[RamboLiberal]

22. Murdered - buried in this news report

on the death of another soldier from same town.

<snip>

Meanwhile, a marine from Cullman is dead after being shot in the head while in his barracks Friday night in Iraq.

21-year-old marine Corporal Adam Fales was asleep when someone came in and shot him in the back of the head.

Fales was nearing the end of his four year tour of duty and was due home in February.

The incident is under investigation by the Marine Corps.

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