Linkarooni - sounds like a good selection for execution to me.
Army schedules first execution in decades
By Michelle Tan - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Nov 20, 2008 16:14:17 EST
The first military execution since 1961 is scheduled to take place Dec. 10 at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Ind., Army officials announced Thursday.
Pvt. Ronald A. Gray was convicted of multiple murders and rapes in the late 1980s in the Fayetteville, N.C., area. At the time, Gray was a specialist with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C.
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
CByrneIV wrote:Excuse me, but why is that piece of shit wearing headgear with a flash? Why is he wearing devices, decorations, and badges?
A confinee is denied the privilege of insignia, excepting that of his branch of service, his name, and the united states flag.
What the fuck.
I am guessing that was his uniform at the time of arrest and charging... the pic looks quite old.
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CByrneIV wrote:In 1988 his headgear would not have been a beret, nor would his guards.
According to a portion of the article at About.com:
Berets Debut in U.S. Military
The first use of the modern beret in the U.S. military was in 1943, when a battalion of the 509th Parachute Infantry was given maroon berets by their British counterparts for their service in the war.
In 1951, the Marine Corps experimented with green and blue berets, but dismissed them because they looked too “foreign” and “feminine.”
The first widespread use of the headgear by U.S. forces came shortly after, when a new Army organization that was specially trained for insurgency and counterguerrilla warfare began wearing a green variety in 1953. It took another eight years for the Army’s Special Forces — the “Green Berets” — to win presidential approval from John F. Kennedy to make their headgear official.
In the 1970s, Army policy allowed local commanders to encourage morale-enhancing uniform distinctions, and the use of berets boomed. Armor personnel at Fort Knox, Ky., wore the traditional British black beret, while U.S. armored cavalry regiments in Germany wore the black beret with a red and white oval.
Troops of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C., started wearing the maroon beret in 1973, while at Fort Campbell, Ky., the trend exploded, with post personnel wearing red, military police donning light green, and the 101st Airborne Division taking light blue as their color. In Alaska, the 172nd Infantry Brigade began using an olive green beret.
In 1975, the Airborne Rangers got approval from the Army Chief of Staff to use the black beret as their official headgear.
Over the next few years, the whole thing got out of hand, and in 1979 senior Army officials put on the brakes, Bradford said. The leadership allowed the Rangers to keep their black berets and in 1980, agreed to allow airborne troops to continue wearing the maroon version. But all others varieties were declared off-limits.
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
Hate to disagree with Chris, but my memory of the 1988 time frame was that 82nd Airborne personnel wore maroon Berets. I went through AGOS in 87 with 2 82nd types and they both wore them. A friend of mine was an MP with the 82nd during Grenada, and some of his pics on the ground there (after active combat ops were completed) show him wearing one as well.
Loser boy does appear to have Jump wings and in B&W that could be dark maroon. He would be allowed to wear all authorized uniform items and insignia at trial in the court room until he was actually convicted to avoid the appearance of prejudicing the court by appearing as an already convicted criminal as opposed to a soldier "innocent until proven guilty" when he appeared. Back at the brig it would be a different story.
I think there is much to be said for the tradition having them ceremonially stripped from him in front of at least a regimental, if not a divisional formation, prior to execution of his sentence.
...even before I read MHI, my response to seeing a poster for the stars of the latest Twilight movies was "I see 2 targets and a collaborator".
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SoupOrMan wrote:What I want to know is how this took so long.
because even in the military, criminals are granted more rights than their victims were granted.
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