Question On Fatalities At Ft Hood

[carlie]

I am wondering if those on active duty at Ft Hood,

that were killed, will be viewed by DOD

(and/or VA, for benefits for their families)

and considered as a death due to a hostile enemy action.

I think it should be.

jmho,

carlie

[Wings]

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Personally, I think Skunk had the right instinct about it all ...

Man oh man, this story set me back with a week of nightmares.

I hope the UCMJ sets some precedent, though they havn't had a hanging since about 1965.

I was a Psychiatric Technition 6 years USAF. ~Wings

[yoggie2]

I would like to stick with the original question

posed in this topic.

Will these death's be considered as due to a hostile enemy action ?

carlie

Nothing to you basser but I made some of the comments I see on here today and my post was deleted? My point is this is without doubt to me a terrorist act and being framed and chalked up in most media and prez as a common lunatic just snapping if this was so I say again why didn't he do this in his masque? Now this will be tried in a Court Marshall as a common criminal and save the government millions, but the others with be treated for the rest of there lives.. I just couldn't imagine this happening in the very place your supposed to feel the safest and they and us are supposed to believe this was just a random act. right , I really hurt for these people no matter how it works out and to think this guy was proscribing meds to these guys too really bothers me just as much..yoggie

[Wings]

Nothing to you basser but I made some of the comments I see on here today and my post was deleted? My point is this is without doubt to me a terrorist act and being framed and chalked up in most media and prez as a common lunatic just snapping if this was so I say again why didn't he do this in his masque? Now this will be tried in a Court Marshall as a common criminal and save the government millions, but the others with be treated for the rest of there lives.. I just couldn't imagine this happening in the very place your supposed to feel the safest and they and us are supposed to believe this was just a random act. right , I really hurt for these people no matter how it works out and to think this guy was proscribing meds to these guys too really bothers me just as much..yoggie

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I think the UCMJ will prove this to be a terrorist act. That's my bet. ~Wings

[Stretch]

Sorry, if I was mentally straying.

[Testvet]

Turns out that Ft. Hood has a civilian police and fire departments.

I think all of the bases do now, they man the gates and do what MPs use to do decades ago, write tickets domestic calls in the housing area etc, I know Fort Jackson has a very learge police force that wear their own uniforms and drive regular police type cars and not MP sedans of Hummers, more of the outsourcing that has been a government determination for more than a decade.

[iraqx2]

I am really saddened by this horrible incident. Like no other, this is really bothering me, and at times, angers me. This shooter is nothing but a COWARD. He is an officer and a healer. Never been deployed. Went to med school on our tax dollars. Makes close to 90k a year. Fast tracked to the rank of Major in 8 years, and makes a living in a cushy environment. It would of still been a cushy environment if he was deployed. But yet he had the courage to show up at a processing center for returning combat soldiers and mobilizing soldiers to kill them?? What a coward. The victims were so young. This guy and his views should have been a red flag years ago.

I do hope the victims' families are taking care of with their benefits and awarded with the same medals like any other casualty of war. Perhaps the Army may have more benefits that we are not aware of.

And as for the coward, you will feel the full blunt of UCMJ. It will not be the old traditional hurry up and wait. It will be swift.