New from CENTCOM: One soldier killed, one injured (8/20/03)

markses

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Wed Aug-20-03 01:46 PM
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New from CENTCOM: One soldier killed, one injured (8/20/03)

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/news_release.asp?NewsRelease=20030840.txt

August 20, 2003
Release Number: 03-08-40

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ONE KILLED, ONE INJURED AFTER CONVOY FIRED UPON

BAGHDAD, Iraq � One 3rd Corps Support Command soldier was killed and another injured in a two-vehicle accident while driving south on the main supply route southeast of the town of Ad Diwaniyah.

The soldiers were driving in a supply convoy of Palletized Loading System (PLS) vehicles when they received small arms fire and struck another vehicle. Both soldiers are attached to the 3rd COSCOM operating out of Kuwait.

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hatrack

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Wed Aug-20-03 01:47 PM
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1. God, this is sad

And no end in sight.

Thanks, Chimpy!!

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Sagan

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Wed Aug-20-03 01:47 PM
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2. they hit another vehicle? Great! We can call it a non-combat fatality!

You just watch and see where the Pentagon puts it.

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displacedvermoter

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Wed Aug-20-03 01:49 PM
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3. A combat death or non-combat?

Seems to me if they were shot at and were killed, it becomes a combat casualty. Friggin' spin is ridiculous,, and the media never asks the right question.

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markses

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Wed Aug-20-03 01:56 PM
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4. This will certainly be listed as "non-combat"

Edited on Wed Aug-20-03 02:01 PM by markses

Since he "died as a result of the accident" (?!?). When it comes to determining the difference between efficient and proximate causes, CENTCOM has all the philosophical subtlety of a 12th century theologian...The dominant question being:

How many dead soldiers can fit in the heart of a Presidential pinhead...

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expatriot

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Wed Aug-20-03 02:11 PM
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5. the ? is: would this accident had happened without the small arms fire?

IF it wouldn't have happened, it should be listed as a combat fatality.

It's like a drunk driver swirving into the lane of oncoming traffic and the other driver having to swirve to miss the drunk driver and thereby ditching his car and being killed when smashing up against a tree. Most people would agree that the accident would have been caused by the drunk driver.

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