View Full Version : Army soldier found guilty in sabotaging Airborne Humvee drop
mojaveman
05-10-2018, 18:11
A 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team Sergeant was found guilty of purposely foiling an airborne drop that involved military vehicles.
Sounds like he's in deep Kimchi. :(
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/10/army-soldier-found-guilty-cutting-straps-sending-humvees-plummeting-from-plane-during-training-exercise.html
Scimitar
05-10-2018, 22:41
I'm surprised there's no comment on motive.
Perhaps by taking footage and running it on *******, he / they could monetize it???
S
I hope that Uncle Sam will be garnishing his wages for a long time to come.
SouthernDZ
05-11-2018, 06:19
They also videotaped the burn-in and one of the Soldiers is recorded laughing; he received a GO Letter of Reprimand for his sense of humor.
Peregrino
05-11-2018, 07:32
A 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team Sergeant was found guilty of purposely foiling an airborne drop that involved military vehicles.
Sounds like he's in deep Kimchi. :(
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/10/army-soldier-found-guilty-cutting-straps-sending-humvees-plummeting-from-plane-during-training-exercise.html
I sincerely hope he's in deep Kimchi. :D (Or was this another instance of "clearing the maintenance backlog and property books" ala the 82nd cleaning out their Gama Goat inventory doing Heavy Drops on Sicily DZ in the 70s-80s? Or LAPESing Sheridans?)
They also videotaped the burn-in and one of the Soldiers is recorded laughing; he received a GO Letter of Reprimand for his sense of humor.
Hell you know if you were on the DZ you would be laughing also. 😉
The Reaper
05-11-2018, 18:33
Hell you know if you were on the DZ you would be laughing also. 😉
Unless it was headed for you.
TR
Radar Rider
05-13-2018, 11:44
I really would like to know why he did it, though.
mojaveman
05-14-2018, 20:28
I really would like to know why he did it, though.
My thoughts exactly. Got off way too easy in my opinion. He should do a long time in Leavenworth for destroying that much government property. What a nut job.
Leozinho
05-14-2018, 22:35
Unless it was headed for you.
TR
In the lead up to Robin Sage, my team RON'd in the woods on the edge of Luzon DZ, iirc, at Mackall. We were exhausted and we had a couple of tough boxes of extra equipment we were training with (so we had more than just our rucks). It was already dark when we got a call over the radio to move away from the DZ x number of clicks because the 82nd was doing a heavy drop that night.
We looked at the tough boxes we'd have to drag through the woods and thought "what are the odds something burns in and just happens to land on us?" and stayed right there and at least got a bit of sleep that night.
(It also crossed our mind that it was the cadre messing with us - though if they had wanted to make sure we got zero sleep that night there were any of a number of other ways to do it.)
I really would like to know why he did it, though.
Anything for a ******* video.