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2010-09-20 Home Front: WoT

Gunman opens fire at Fort Bliss in Texas

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Posted by Oztralian 2010-09-20 19:47|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Earlier reports indicated the incident took place at a convenience store on base called Shopette.

Sigh, every "convenience store" on Army posts and Air Force bases are called the Shopette. They are run by AAFES. Likely the Burger King was in the same mini-mall.

Posted by Steve 2010-09-20 19:57|| 2010-09-20 19:57|| Front Page Top

#2 From McClatchy today on how the Army is broken after the draw down from Iraq (posting only the part about Ft. Bliss):

"Nearly 70 soldiers in his 1,163-member battalion had tested positive for drugs: methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana. Others were abusing prescription drugs. Troops were passing around a tape of a female lieutenant having sex with five soldiers from the unit. Seven soldiers in the brigade died from drug overdoses and traffic accidents when they returned to Fort Bliss, near El Paso, after their first deployment.

"The inmates were running the prison," Wilson said.

What Wilson had to deal with, however, was hardly an isolated instance.

With the U.S. drawdown in Iraq, the Army is finally confronting an epidemic of drug abuse and criminal behavior that many commanders acknowledge has been made worse because they'd largely ignored it during nearly a decade of wars on two fronts.

The Army concedes that it faces a mammoth problem."

Posted by Infidel 2010-09-20 20:39|| 2010-09-20 20:39|| Front Page Top

#3 said the same thing about the Vietnam vets and it turned out to be wrong.

Posted by bman 2010-09-20 23:39|| 2010-09-20 23:39|| Front Page Top

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