Saturday, March 23, 2013

Marines Mowed Down in Virginia

"Gunman kills 2, self at Marine school" by Trip Gabriel and James Dao  |  New York Times, March 23, 2013

QUANTICO, Va. — Three staff members of the US Marines’ officer training school are dead after a gunman killed himself and two colleagues, a man and a woman, officials said Friday.

The shootings occurred inside a barracks, Taylor Hall, on the Marine Corps base here, said the base commander, Colonel David W. Maxwell.

The names of the dead were not immediately released, nor did Maxwell suggest a motive, pending an investigation. An official identified the gunman as a sergeant, the male victim as a corporal and the female victim as a lance corporal.

Other officials said the episode was not thought to be a mass shooting or terrorism.

The mood was somber on the base and in the surrounding community Friday, with many people describing the Marine Corps as a close-knit community, already saddened this week by the deaths of seven Marines in an explosion at a weapons depot in Nevada.

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"7 Marines die in explosion at Nevada base; Mortar is cited in blast that also injured 6 troops" by Scott Sonner and Ted Bridis  |  Associated Press, March 20, 2013

HAWTHORNE, Nev. — A mortar shell explosion killed seven Marines and injured a half-dozen more during mountain warfare training in Nevada’s high desert, prompting the Pentagon to immediately halt the use of the weapons until an investigation can determine their safety, officials said Tuesday....

So what war profiteer sold the AmeriKan military defective s***?

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Related: U.S. Training Terrorists in Nevada

Is that what they are still doing out there?