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2021-04-07 Home Front: WoT
Maryland Shooter Identified as 38-Year-Old Navy Sailor Fantahun Woldesenbet
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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2021-04-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 We knew he was not a white guy/Trump supporter because there was no mention of race or politics in the initial reports. I'm putting my chips on "Gay Lovers Quarrel" based on nothing but whimsy.
Posted by SteveS 2021-04-07 01:01||   2021-04-07 01:01|| Front Page Top

#2 SteveS, this from the Daily Mail article on the subject might, or might not, impact your thinking,

Police cordoned off Woldesenbet's garden-style apartment building in Frederick City, a few miles from the site of the shooting.

A neighbor, Ava Target, said she knew Woldesenbet only by sight, and that he lived on the top floor of the apartment complex with a wife and two kids. She wasn't aware of any problems.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-07 01:25||   2021-04-07 01:25|| Front Page Top

#3 And I'll take "Ethernopian politics," based on nothing but the same, but flimsier.
Posted by Mad Eye Flemp4426 2021-04-07 01:29||   2021-04-07 01:29|| Front Page Top

#4 38 yo E4? Active, not reserve!
WTH!?
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2021-04-07 01:31||   2021-04-07 01:31|| Front Page Top

#5  And I'll take "Ethernopian politics," based on nothing but the same, but flimsier.

Alrighty! Who wants "Gay Ethernopian Politics"? You can't win if you don't play.

My spider sense says a big chunk of this story missing. I can't tell if it is an unknown, or whether it is a known that cannot be mentioned. In the meantime, I'm just stuffing something silly in the gap until we actually have data. It is still early.
Posted by SteveS 2021-04-07 01:49||   2021-04-07 01:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Fort Detrick?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-07 02:06||   2021-04-07 02:06|| Front Page Top

#7 38 yo E4? Active, not reserve!

I bet he was enamored by the Navy recruiter with wonderful tales of mandatory EO training and Constitution Day training and TARP (née SAEDA) training and wild, lamp-shade-wearing tales of Women's History Month with notional barrels of Navy rum.
Posted by Clem 2021-04-07 04:57||   2021-04-07 04:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Ref #6: Fort Detrick?

Yes, similar to your facility at Ness Ziona.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-07 06:34||   2021-04-07 06:34|| Front Page Top

#9 ^Not exactly. The real thing is elsewhere - as far from any habitation as you can get in Israel.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-07 07:49||   2021-04-07 07:49|| Front Page Top

#10 He Joined in 2012. Made E-4 in 2017. Nine years and Still only an E-4!
Posted by Sonny Black 2021-04-07 09:27||   2021-04-07 09:27|| Front Page Top

#11 “Christ. Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the f**king Peace Corps.” - (Senator) Blutarsky.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-07 09:38||   2021-04-07 09:38|| Front Page Top

#12 Moment bleeding sailor rushes into store and pleads for help after he and fellow serviceman were shot by Navy corpsman who is then killed at Fort Detrick in Maryland
Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-07 09:59||   2021-04-07 09:59|| Front Page Top

#13 Task & Proose has his military tecod:

The hospital corpsman who was killed at Fort Detrick, Maryland, on Tuesday after he allegedly shot two other sailors near the base had an unremarkable career in the Navy, according to his military record.

Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, originally from Virginia, enlisted in the Navy in September 2012 and had served as a petty officer third class, or E-4, since June 2017, his Navy biography says.

Woldesenbet had been assigned to the Naval Medical Research Center at Fort Detrick since August 2019, according to his official record, which the Navy provided to Task & Purpose.

Before then, he served at Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; and elsewhere, his record says.

For much of his time in the Navy, Woldesenbet was going through training. He was listed as a student while at four of his eight assignments after completing recruit training.

Most recently, he was a student at Fort Sam Houston and the Navy Medicine Training Support Center in Portsmouth, Virginia, before arriving at Fort Detrick.

His record does not indicate that he went on any combat deployments or received any significant personal awards.

Woldesenbet’s military decorations include the Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and Pistol (Marksman).
Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-07 10:31||   2021-04-07 10:31|| Front Page Top

#14 Alrighty! Who wants "Gay Ethernopian Politics"? You can't win if you don't play.

You know, everything about this is weird, with the obligatory radio news breathlessly "every time we turn on the news a mass shooting.." on repeat half the day, and gone by night.

Puts down a $3 bill.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-04-07 10:50||   2021-04-07 10:50|| Front Page Top

#15 My apologies for the unnoticed typos above. Clearly I am still recovering from the second Pfizer dose plus posting so close upon awakening. PIMF!!! It’s Task & Purpose and his military record. *sigh*

Separately, according to the Tiger Droppings message board, that beautiful photo Anomalous Sources found for us is actually an Ethiopian biotech PhD of the same name (they have a link with that photo), and there’s a link to a Michael Savage post claiming to be the real photo of the very different man who is our miscreant. Interestingly, Mr. Savage spells the gentleman’s name Phantahun Girma Woldesenbet.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-07 11:54||   2021-04-07 11:54|| Front Page Top

#16 Expect more attacks.
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-04-07 13:53||   2021-04-07 13:53|| Front Page Top

#17 
Posted by Sluse Grealet9429 2021-04-07 14:47||   2021-04-07 14:47|| Front Page Top

#18 thatbeautiful photo Anomalous Sources found for us is actually an Ethiopian biotech PhD of the same name

So how about the moderators take down the photo of an innocent man so that we aren't responsible for besmirching his good name?
Posted by Secret Master 2021-04-07 16:39||   2021-04-07 16:39|| Front Page Top

#19 Same name, dude.
Oh, and 2+1 is NOT a mass shooting.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-07 19:00||   2021-04-07 19:00|| Front Page Top

#20 @#15 - CRAP!!!!! My research capabilities seem lacking lately.

Can I blame COVID? Is there some boodle in it for me if I do?

At any rate, my most sincere apologies to all.

AS
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2021-04-07 20:49||   2021-04-07 20:49|| Front Page Top

#21 It looks like our miscreant is a third man altogether:

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-07 20:52||   2021-04-07 20:52|| Front Page Top

#22 Mosque?
Posted by Woodrow 2021-04-07 21:18||   2021-04-07 21:18|| Front Page Top

#23 Anomalous Sources dear, this is typical fog of war stuff as we iterate our way to the truth. It could have been avoided if Brigadier General Michael J. Talley had just released the base’s file photo of the miscreant at yesterday’s press briefing instead of playing coy and waiting until today.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-07 21:23||   2021-04-07 21:23|| Front Page Top

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