McQ at Blackfive ("the paratrooper of love") disagrees with the premise.
Money quote(s):
"What happened at Ft. Hood wasn’t a case of “workplace violence”, it was a case of a radicalized Islamist going on a murderous rampage because of his radicalization. It was also a total failure of leaders to recognize the threat and act on it well before it ended in the death of 13 at the Texas military installation.
Why facing up to this seems to be such a chore for DoD and this administration remains the mystery."
Integrity. I'm sure that's a word that comes up at various times during the professional education of our top military leaders. That and oldies (but goodies) like "Loyalty Upwards and Downwards" and "Men first, Mission Always."
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Friday, March 2, 2012
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Doesn't all action that occurs in a war constitute "workplace violence"? Or does the "workplace" not extend to OCONUS? What if this occured at some Kaserne in Germany, vs Fort Hood? Is this 'workplace violence'?
So, when that jack wagon in the 101st who had the grenade to frag officers in Iraq merely committing "workplace violence"?
@LongTabSigO:
We're both sneaking up on the same thought:
By treating the Ft Hood shootings as "workplace violence" and the 101st fragging as a purely UCMJ (criminal) offense; The Powers That Be are obscuring the obvious point.
To wit: in both cases we have treasonous murder, that is uniformed U.S. service members waging war against their own fellow soldiers while in service to an enemy adversary or ideology.
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