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Team Sergeant
06-28-2012, 15:03
Shootings at Ft Bragg? What's going on gents?
GnSurfin
06-28-2012, 15:25
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06-28-2012, 16:05
Police officials are investigating a shooting that took place at Fort Bragg, N.C. on Thursday afternoon, according to a public affairs spokesman.
The Army Times reported that a senior officer has been shot dead by an enlisted soldier, who then shot himself. A ricocheting bullet left a second soldier wounded, officials said.
The incident occurred on the base, which is home to the Army's Airbourne and Special Operations Forces, at 3:30 p.m.
Officers are urging pedestrians and drivers to avoid the area around the historic section of Fort Bragg until further notice.
Local police will hold a news conference at 6 p.m. ET.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/28/officers-investigate-shooting-incident-at-fort-bragg/?test=latestnews#ixzz1z80lYdDc
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Snaquebite
06-28-2012, 16:08
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/06/shooting-reported-at-fort-bragg-nc/1#.T-zUh3BJFOx
Update at 5:39 p.m. ET: NBC News is reporting that a battalion commander is dead and that at least one person was shot, citing a "senior U.S. defense official."
The officer, who has not been identified, was shot near the 18th Airborne Headquarters in a "distinctly military headquarters area," the official told NBC
Enlisted shot Officer during safety brief, turned gun on self. Injured self and stray bullet injured bystander.
Shooter in custody.
SM not in Division or Special Operations. That only leaves...........
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Snaquebite
06-28-2012, 16:59
525 Battlefield Surveillance Bde.
The Reaper
06-28-2012, 17:13
525 Battlefield Surveillance Bde.
Yep.
Military Intelligence at its finest.
TR
No it is the post MP unit.. Not MI.
The Reaper
06-28-2012, 17:43
No it is the post MP unit.. Not MI.
I disagree:
The 525th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade provides intelligence analysis and collection support to the XVIII Airborne Corps. It is the only rapidly deployable battlefield surveillance brigade in the United States Army. The brigade headquarters, two MI battalions and a Cavalry Squadron are stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The brigade’s capabilities include a full range of advanced intelligence analysis and intelligence collection that includes counterintelligence, long range surveillance, aerial signals intelligence, and Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP). Its Soldiers come from across the range of Military Occupational Specialties in the Army to include military intelligence disciplines, infantry, aviation, signal, and the full range of critical Combat Support and Combat Service Support experts. Its mission is to provide all-source, predictive intelligence and electronic warfare in support of worldwide contingency operations.
Are you saying that the shooter was an MP?
TR
Yep.
Military Intelligence at its finest.
TR
Ouch.
I worked with them a few years ago OCONUS and they did very well. Clearly that was then, this is now; only with issues.
Snaquebite
06-28-2012, 18:13
No it is the post MP unit.. Not MI.
NOT..The 18th Abn Corps PAO stated it was the 525 BSB...which is Intel..They even have a FB page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/525th-Battlefield-Surveillance-Brigade/115783351769371
it is in fact 525 MI, not MP
I didn't say it earlier because, I have no idea what has been said by who and I don't want my words to come back on my source.
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Snaquebite
06-28-2012, 18:34
Already made FOX
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/28/officers-investigate-shooting-incident-at-fort-bragg/
Sorry stand corrected. It was 525 MI. It was a Officer that was shot by one of his solders. Also another solder was shot.
One surprising thing or fact is that Bragg has had by Feb this year, 13 suicides which was the same number for all if last year. I'm told the number is around 36-38. I bring this up just be cause the shooter tried to commit suicide. Tried giving a pistol a BJ, that went well.
Pray go out to the families. God bless.
Basenshukai
06-28-2012, 20:07
When a pistol is about to break, the locking block may show cracks, or the frame may show signs of stress at certain points. Once this is noticed, the unit exerts a lot of effort to repair the weapon and it is tagged and not fired until it is fixed.
When our Soldiers are about to break, morale sinks, marriage issues become more pronounced, acts of indiscipline become more prevalent. But, do we "deadline" our Soldiers/units for a while? Do we give our units a break? Heck no. We keep deploying them until they finally break.
In my career, I have heard many commanders speak about how much they care about the families. Yet, I have seldom seen a commander say "no" to a deployment, or a training mission, because he/she felt that the Soldiers needed time off.
Even rarer is the occurrence of a command turning down taskers at the source. We can do anything, every time, but NOT everything, all the time. It's that simple.
AngelsSix
06-28-2012, 20:09
Wow. I just went to the Commissary today. I know this sounds ridiculous, but the hair on the back of my neck was standing up as I was driving though the 82nd's area today. Weird. Prayers out to those involved....nothing good comes from this.
Family friends identify slain Fort Bragg soldier as Lt. Col. Roy L. Tisdale
http://fayobserver.com/articles/2012/06/29/1187706?sac=fo.home
"A Fort Bragg battalion commander who was shot and killed Thursday afternoon has been identified by family friends as Lt. Col. Roy L. Tisdale....................."
RIP LTC Tisdale.
greenberetTFS
06-30-2012, 08:11
Gone,but not forgotten.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn_iz8z2AGw - Cached
God Bless,Rest in Peace Warrior....:(.
He was just a simple soldier and his ranks are growing thin
But his presence should remind us; we may need his like again,
For when countries are in conflict, then we find the soldier's part
Is to clean up all the troubles that the politicians start.
If we cannot do him honor while he's here to hear the praise,
Then at least let's give him homage at the ending of his days.......:(
Perhaps just a simple headline in the paper that might say:
OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING, FOR A SOLDIER DIED TODAY. (author unknown)
The passing of our soldiers often go unnoticed and unsung by most of the world, remembered only by family and friends. Wish it were not so. May he RIP, his family will be in my thoughts and prayers.........:(
I realize it's a Canadian song,however I believe most appropriate for this occasion..:(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrkgV5bl7kQ
Big Teddy
Fort Bragg soldier who shot commander dies
http://fayobserver.com/articles/2012/07/01/1187948?sac=fo.local
".....Elder recently had been charged with larceny of a $1,700 toolkit on Fort Bragg and was facing a court-martial, officials said.
He also had a pending court case in Kansas.
Elder was supposed to have been in a Reno County, Kan., court Friday, being sentenced for punching a woman in the face at a bar, his lawyer said Saturday.........."
Hitting women and stealing toolboxes, hmm. And caps it all off with murder.
69harley
07-02-2012, 08:35
Wow. I just went to the Commissary today. I know this sounds ridiculous, but the hair on the back of my neck was standing up as I was driving though the 82nd's area today. Weird. Prayers out to those involved....nothing good comes from this.
Why? The 82nd had nothing to do with this. The 525 is a corps unit on the other side of post from the 82nd.
SouthernDZ
07-05-2012, 09:43
The plot thickens.
Fayetteville (NC) Observer, July 3, 2012
Posts Shed Light On Shooter's Mind-Set
By Greg Barnes and John Ramsey, Staff writers
About an hour before Fort Bragg Spc. Ricky G. Elder fatally shot his commander and then himself Thursday, he posted a chilling final message on Facebook:
"My mind in the past couple of years has folded on itself. I just went to the Dr. and they said I just tested positive for Dementia."
The post is time stamped 2:29 p.m. June 28. Fort Bragg officials say that about 3:30 p.m. that day, the 27-year-old Elder fatally shot his commander, Lt. Col. Roy L. Tisdale, and then turned the gun on himself during a safety briefing at Fort Bragg.
Elder died Saturday at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center. A third soldier, 22-year-old Spc. Michael E. Latham, suffered minor wounds. All three soldiers were members of the 525th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 525th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade.
In the same Facebook post, Elder expresses bitterness at an impending court-martial on charges of stealing a toolkit.
"So one week before I was supposed to get out I was charged with these damn tools," the post reads. "So instead of a ($)20,000 severance I get to loose all the benefits and everything I've worked so hard for."
The post indicates that two other soldiers were much more involved in the case of the stolen toolkit.
Fort Bragg spokesman Tom McCollum confirmed that others have been charged in the case, but he said that he did not have their names or ranks and that the officials who did were on leave for the holiday.
"We are aware of these postings and please remember, just because he posted something does not make it true," McCollum said in an email.
A friend who served with Elder at Fort Benning, Ga., allowed a reporter to see Elder's private Facebook page. The friend, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he did so because he wants people to know what happened to Elder in war and because he questions Fort Bragg's decision to allow him to deploy to Afghanistan knowing he suffered from mental health problems.
"I don't want him to be portrayed as this rogue, cold killer," the friend said.
The day of the shootings, Elder also posted medical records from 2007 that describe him being in an explosion while riding as a gunner in a Humvee in Iraq.
According to the records, Elder was ejected from the Humvee, hit his head and suffered a concussion. A friend who was with him died in the explosion.
The records indicate that a CT scan of Elder's brain revealed no major medical problems.
The records show an initial diagnosis of "unspecified neurotic disorder."
A narrative summary in the records describes Elder being escorted to the morgue after demanding to see the friend who was killed in the explosion: "Patient crying heavily, Heard saying in heavy tears, 'I don't want to live anymore.' "
After being returned to his room, the narrative says, Elder punched a window so hard that he broke the bulletproof glass.
The friend said he understands Fort Bragg's desire to mourn and honor Tisdale, the colonel who Elder killed.
But he said Elder was "a war hero, too," and officials at Fort Bragg "don't make any effort to let that be known."
"I'm not saying what he did was right," the friend said, "but there was an absolute reason for what he did. Everyone knew he had TBI."
He said Elder told people he had traumatic brain injury, which is caused by one or more significant blows to the head and is sometimes characterized by depression, anxiousness and mood swings.
'It's tragic'
Another friend who served with Elder at Fort Benning, former soldier Chris Cook, said Elder was extremely proud of his military awards.
"He was a troubled soul, obviously," Cook said, "but I think it's wrong that people are going to make him out as a monster. That's not who he was. It's from the (expletive) war.
"He was a hell of a soldier. He did a lot for his country, a lot that nobody will ever see. It's tragic and it's sad."
Elder, who has a wife and two children, was stationed in Alaska when he was deployed to Iraq and got injured. He transferred to Fort Benning around 2008.
The friend who asked not to be named said he saw no outward signs that Elder suffered from PTSD, TBI or any other mental problems. Although the two served at Fort Benning together in a nondeployable unit, the friend said he would have trusted Elder with his life in battle.
He said he kept in contact with Elder after he left for Fort Bragg.
"They just let him spiral out of control," he said.
In May 2010, the month before Elder was assigned to Fort Bragg, he was charged with punching a woman in the face at a bar in Hutchinson, Kan., his hometown.
Despite the charges, a judge in Reno County District Court allowed Elder's case to be continued so he could deploy to Afghanistan in September 2010. Elder accepted a plea agreement shortly after returning home and was to be sentenced to probation a day after the shootings occurred.
That same day, Elder was scheduled to be in Cumberland County District Court on charges filed May 14 of reckless driving to endanger. Court records show that Elder also had been charged in June 2010 with failure to stop at a red light and no operators license. Those charges were dismissed.
McCollum, the Fort Bragg spokesman, said he would try to verify whether Elder's command was aware of the charges against him in Kansas before he was allowed to deploy.
The Army has acknowledged that it isn't always notified when a soldier commits a civilian crime.
http://214.14.134.30/ebird2/ebfiles/e20120705897144.html
Fuck that kid. LTC Tisdale's funeral is today at Texas A&M of which my boss is in attendance. They were in ROTC and graduated together.
RIP
We'rewolf
07-05-2012, 12:04
I'm with Sinjefe. That kid lost his right to be addressed as a "war hero". He took someone's husband, father, son, etc.. away. Thoughts and prayers are with LTC Tisdale's family and friends.
GreenSalsa
07-05-2012, 13:22
Agreed, I am so tired of EVERYONE being a victim--he is a POS!
Like Mamma always told me.....seriously....
Everyone has issues, every family has problems...that is no excuse for doing wrong, we are all responsible for our actions.
Mom was a tough gal, still is, and she was absolutely right.
If he had issues, get help.
His friends should shut up about this 'hero'.....idiots should have reported him rather than being sympathetic enablers.
His friends should shut up about this 'hero'.....idiots should have reported him rather than being sympathetic enablers.
The reporting should have happened on many levels..
It should have started when he insisted on going to the morgue..
The records show an initial diagnosis of "unspecified neurotic disorder."
A narrative summary in the records describes Elder being escorted to the morgue after demanding to see the friend who was killed in the explosion: "Patient crying heavily, Heard saying in heavy tears, 'I don't want to live anymore.' "
After being returned to his room, the narrative says, Elder punched a window so hard that he broke the bulletproof glass.
Someone dropped the ball.... :mad:
RIP LTC Tisdale, my prayers are with your family and Brothers.
tom kelly
07-05-2012, 17:35
Punch a woman in the face & plead guilty. He is a convicted felon, where did he get the gun, Convicted felons are not to have a firearm in their posession. Why was he not dismissed from the army after the assult incident in Kansas?
Prayers out to the Lt.Col's family & friends. Regard's, TK
The Reaper
07-05-2012, 19:41
I understand what his friends say.
Maybe the Army should have treated him for his illness.
But he is also a murderer, and someone who betrayed his leadership.
RIP, LTC Tisdale.
TR
bailaviborita
07-05-2012, 20:46
Tisdale was a good guy- this is sad news. I attended IOBC with him and was at SAMS when he was. Last saw him in 2008 or 09. Thought highly of him at IOBC and even more so when I bumped into him again at Leavenworth.
For much of our military- not to mention our population- there is no agreed-upon set of values to look up to in anyone anymore, it seems to me. We celebrate losers as if they are winners. If I hadn't seen that so much lately, I'd be more astounded at the shooter's friend's comments. But, he exists in an environment that says heroes aren't heroes and villains are simply misunderstood.
Sometimes I think things haven't changed- people have always been that way- but then I read popular writings/books from World War II and other times and I have to admit that it seems to me that at least publicly people were less cynical and more open to holding up an ideal for people to believe in- in the past. If we can't get inspiration back in this country I wonder about our future.
RIP, Roy---
Someone can spend years in service of country, recieve medals and awards, and serve with honor, and can be a "hero." It takes years of service to finally walk with that honorable discharge. It only takes seconds to mess it all up, and throw it all away.
The posts I have indulged in here on PS.com about war hero's, and the Silver Star recipients, those guys don't play the hero card, in fact from what I gather they play down their actions that earned those awards. Their job is not done yet, and they know it.
RIP LTC Tisdale.
TXGringo
07-06-2012, 04:40
My Aggie girlfriend shared this with me. Unfortunately, we didn't hear about it in time or we would've made the trip. Thought I'd pass the story along:
http://www.theeagle.com/article/20120706/BC0101/120709736/1100/lp
"More than 450 people stood side-by-side on the front lawn of Central Baptist Church in College Station Thursday, creating what quickly became known as the “Maroon Wall” in honor of fallen soldier Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale."
SouthernDZ
07-06-2012, 14:54
Fayetteville (NC) Observer, July 6, 2012
Family And Friends Eulogize Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale At Funeral In Texas
By Drew Brooks, Staff writer
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - One after another, the speakers at Lt. Col. Roy Lin Tisdale's funeral tried to boil the fallen Fort Bragg battalion commander down to a single word. Soldier. Father. Commander. Men like Maj. Gen. Rodney Anderson used more than two dozen nouns to describe Tisdale, who was killed a week earlier, on June 28, on Fort Bragg. They described a man dedicated to his family, committed to his soldiers and willing to risk everything for his country.
Anderson, who marked his retirement from the 18th Airborne Corps in a ceremony last month, reeled off his list twice during a speech at Central Baptist Church. It wasn't until the very end that he seemed to settle on a term. "A great American," he said.
Tisdale, 42, of Alvin, Texas, received a hero's sendoff on Thursday in the city where he spent his college years at Texas A&M University.
Outside the church, more than 500 current students gathered to pay their respects and stand their ground against a protest that was supposedly planned for the funeral by an infamous religious group. Inside, hundreds more surrounded the Tisdale family, including former classmates and soldiers from across the globe, including Fort Bragg and Germany. And as the funeral procession made its way to a city cemetery just off campus, even more students gathered by the roadside to wave American flags and salute.
Tisdale died on Fort Bragg last week. According to officials, he was fatally shot during a safety briefing ahead of the long weekend. The shooter, Spc. Ricky Elder of Hutchinson, Kan., then turned his gun on himself, officials said. He later died.
Commander of the 525th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 525th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade, Tisdale left behind a wife, Kim, and two children, Megan and Lane. On Thursday, he was praised by a Texas state senator, Anderson, a former classmate and a former mentor. They described him as a country boy who defined the values the military holds dearest. "He did his duty, and he did it very well," said Anderson, who would later escort Tisdale's widow to the graveside. "Roy Tisdale served and sacrificed for his friends and his unit."
Tisdale, a two-time veteran of the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan, was laid to rest with full military honors in the Aggie Field of Honor, a section of the relatively new city cemetery devoted to those with A&M connections. There, too, hundreds of current students and dozens of members of the Patriot Guard stood at attention.
Virtually none of the students knew Tisdale or had even heard his name before they learned of his death. But they turned out in droves after word spread that a group of protesters from Westboro Baptist Church might have been on their way. "We're all here for the family," said Lilly McAlister, one of the group's organizers. "I didn't know him personally. It's just a matter of showing support for the family, for the soldier."
Similar scenes have taken place all week, those who spoke at the service said. When Tisdale's body arrived in Texas on Wednesday, Independence Day, scores of Patriot Guard riders and other supporters escorted him into town and lined the road in reverence.
Lt. Col. Steven Ruth, a classmate of Tisdale's, said he asked one woman on the side of the road why she was there, since she had never even met Tisdale. "He's a son of Aggieland," Ruth said the woman told him. "There are no strangers on this road."
http://214.14.134.30/ebird2/ebfiles/e20120706897437.html
AngelsSix
07-08-2012, 16:14
My Aggie girlfriend shared this with me. Unfortunately, we didn't hear about it in time or we would've made the trip. Thought I'd pass the story along:
http://www.theeagle.com/article/20120706/BC0101/120709736/1100/lp
"More than 450 people stood side-by-side on the front lawn of Central Baptist Church in College Station Thursday, creating what quickly became known as the “Maroon Wall” in honor of fallen soldier Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale."
People absolutely disgust me sometimes. I am not a religious person by any means, but this crap has gone too far. I am waiting for the day these a-holes mess with the wrong group of people......
People absolutely disgust me sometimes. I am not a religious person by any means, but this crap has gone too far. I am waiting for the day these a-holes mess with the wrong group of people......
You got that right. Someday their 1st Amendment rights will collide with the wrong group of people's 1st Amendment rights. They've been vocal but have have been shut down on many occasions of late.
RIP Lt. Col. Roy Lin Tisdale. Condolences to the supporters, students, and family.
The hundreds gathered were prepared for a potentially aggressive confrontation, but the protestors from Westboro Baptist Church never showed up.
Tisdale's body was peacefully laid to rest after the funeral at the Aggie Field of Honor -- a cemetery for Texas A&M students and staff.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/06/texas-am-students_n_1653002.html
And so it goes...
RIP, Sir.
What a mess this turned out to be. Sad.
Richard
Nine-soldier Crime Ring Linked To Death Of Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale
FayObsvr, 10 Feb 2014
A nine-soldier crime ring that began in Afghanistan has been tied to the 2012 shooting death of a well-respected Fort Bragg officer, according to federal court documents.
Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale was shot and killed during a unit safety briefing on June 28, 2012.
At the time, officials were quiet on what could have driven his killer, Spc. Ricky Elder, to shoot Tisdale and then turn the gun on himself.
The pair had deployed together with the 525th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade's Special Troops Battalion. And Elder was facing a court-martial for stealing a $1,700 tool kit. But there was no clear connection.
But documents related to two criminal cases that ended last year paint a more complete picture of the events leading up to Tisdale's death on a hot Fort Bragg afternoon.
"It is my opinion, that had these larcenies not occurred, Lt. Col. Tisdale would still be with us today."
Capt. Aaron E. Adams, now stationed at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center at Hohenfels, Germany, wrote those words in a letter included in the case file for Chief Warrant Officer 3 Kurt Allen Bennett.
Bennett is a helicopter pilot who in 2012 served as brigade tactical operations officer and then led the brigade's enabler security team.
He's also been convicted of stealing government property and was sentenced last year to three years in a federal prison, although he isn't due to report to prison until June 30, 2014.
According to court documents, Bennett and another soldier, Sgt. 1st Class Robert Alan Walker, conspired together to steal military equipment that included vehicle motors, tools and electronics while deployed from 2010 to 2011.
The pair, working with several other soldiers, would hide the equipment in shipping containers and send it back to the United States.
Once back at Fort Bragg, the property was distributed among the nine-soldier crime ring. According to an indictment, tens of thousands of dollars in equipment was stolen, including an $11,500 ATV and a nearly $9,000 cargo trailer.
One of those soldiers, according to the documents, was Elder.
Elder was a troubled soldier from the small town of Hutchinson, Kan., according to officials.
As a juvenile, he was charged with burglary, battery and possession of marijuana during separate incidents.
As a soldier, he was charged with assault causing injury in 2007, drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident in 2009 and simple assault in 201.
In Facebook posts, some dating just an hour before Tisdale's death, Elder said he had been diagnosed with dementia and expressed bitterness in connection to his pending court-martial.
"So one week before I was supposed to get out I was charged with these damn tools," one post read. "So instead of a ($)20,000 severance I get to loose all the benefits and everything I've worked so hard for."
Writing about the impact of the thefts, another former 525th officer, Maj. Dallen R. Arny, again linked the crimes to Tisdale's death.
"The effects of (Chief Warrant Officer 3) Bennett's behavior on the command were catastrophic," Arny wrote. "One of his co-conspirators murdered Lt. Col. Tisdale. Lt. Col. Tisdale would be alive today if Ricky Elder didn't receive a toolbox from (Chief Warrants Officer 3) Bennett."
According to court documents, the thefts were discovered in August 2011 following an inventory of equipment.
At the time, one set of night vision goggles was unaccounted for, according to Adams, who served as commander for the 525th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade's Headquarters and Headquarters Company.
The theft of the equipment shut down the unit for about 30 days, according to Adams. During that time, his soldiers stayed late nights accounting for equipment.
The investigation revealed that one soldier was trying to sell some of the equipment in the civilian market, Adams said. And eventually, nine soldiers were linked to the ring that was formed in Afghanistan.
Those soldiers were removed from their positions and escorted to and from law enforcement for multiple questionings.
The fallout from the investigations included a loss of trust and an increase in discipline issues, a drop in morale and a loss in unit pride, Adams wrote.
"Soldiers began to distance themselves from everyone and everything that was a part of the unit," he said. "It became a struggle to keep it all together and keep the machine rolling along."
Arny said Bennett's prosecution took years, giving the appearance that "officers can commit crimes and get away with it."
"That appearance destroyed good order and discipline within the unit, and in one case an outstanding officer was killed," he said.
According to Chief Warrant Officer 2 James Verschueren, another former member of the 525th, the thefts resulted in hours of lost productivity that "adversely impacted" the company's ability to train for an expected deployment to Kosovo and to prepare two subordinate units for combat operations in Afghanistan.
Ten months after the thefts were first discovered, the stress and frustration came to a head on June 28, 2012.
Then, Elder pulled a gun during the otherwise routine safety briefing. He shot Tisdale and another soldier, then shot himself.
"I am not blaming (Chief Warrant Officer 3) Bennett for the death of Lt. Col. Tisdale; however, I do believe that the larcenies were the cause that lead to the shooting of Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale," Adams wrote. "It is my opinion, that had these larcenies not occured, Lt. Col. Tisdale would still be with us today."
(Cont'd) http://www.fayobserver.com/news/crime_courts/article_c1c4b459-34d4-587d-906d-46061ed31f31.html?mode=story&utm_content=buffer0b5b9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Your honor and service for a few bucks....nice reflection on the unit and I do blame the WO for the LTC's death.
RIP LTC.
May the others get their due.
RIP LtC Tisdale, Vaya con Dios..
the rest sucks... :mad:
AngelsSix
02-12-2014, 11:46
Not only is this situation extremely sad, but disappointing as well. How do things like this happen in a unit and no one finds out for such long periods of time? Why are we still accepting people into the military with prior criminal histories? We are currently sending good NCO's out the door, but why aren't the commands doing a better job of weeding out the trash first? I have seen untold amounts of scum in the military, civilian and active duty. Where are the checkpoints to prevent these people from entering the service to begin with?