4 Troops Accused of Stabbing Unit Member

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COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - Four soldiers at Fort Benning have been arrested and accused of stabbing to death a member of their infantry unit, setting the body on fire and leaving it in the woods just days after their return from Iraq.

Police said the soldiers had gotten mad at Spc. Richard R. Davis for insulting a dancer at a strip club and getting them kicked out of the place.

Davis, 24, of St. Charles, Mo., was stabbed repeatedly in July. His skeletal remains were found Friday, nearly four months after he was reported missing. Fort Benning investigators had received a tip to search the woods near the Army post.

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Bummer.

We need a 'decompression chamber' system for guys returning from combat.

:(

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. We need some kind of chamber for guys like this

They sound criminally insane.

[Occulus]

2. A lengthy stay

in a zero-pressure, stateside R&R facility with state-of-the-art technology centers (including 25fps webcam connections to the people waiting for them), athletic facilities, internationl five star-quality cuisine, and no contact with nonmilitary personnel. Say, a two-to-four week stay.

Yes, it would be expensive. But, if we are unwilling to allow severely hairtrigger, fresh-from-combat soldiers to reenter our society directly from the battlefield, they then deserve the best, most relaxing and rewarding place possible in which to unwind, free from any and all pressures, including those spouses and children might place upon them during that hairtrigger winding-down phase. A panel of psychiatrists would be best to answer what type of place would be most suitable for as normal and smooth a transition as possible.

[Enjolras]

3. Columbus, GA has a strip club??!!!

Must be true what they say ..... that you can't spit in one of those places without hitting a Christian fundamentalist. Hannity, O'Reilly, Buchanan, et al would have you believe such phenomena are unique to the putrid, festering bastions of liberalism like San Francisco and Boston.

BTW, what ever happened to "We will leave no comrade behind"?

[Robin Hood]

4. Here we go.

The madness is coming home to roost. Thanks George, I hope that some of them move to Kennebunkport or Crawford.

[smallprint]

5. Reminds me of the Ft. Bragg murders

Last year, a bunch of Special Forces soldiers came back from Afganistan. In a span of six weeks, FOUR of them killed their wives.

These guys need help.

[MetaTrope]

6. This is the beginning

A fresh crop of Timothy McVeighs return from the fascist invasion of a sovereign state...

[Bozita]

8. A fresh crop of Timothy McVeighs -- totally agree

War is the final ingredient.

[Dr Fate]

7. They need MORE booze and wimmen...

...or whatever it is they were missing in Iraq...

Can these fellows get dates in Iraq or what??? Sex would relieve some of this stress...

[Enjolras]

9. Zero booze

I read that booze (and of course, drugs, as always) is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN for U.S. forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan. And, unless it's changed in the nearly 10 years since my discharge from the USAF, the military takes a very hard line on ANY casual social (read sexual) contact between its male and female members. This became an obsession in the wake of the infamous Tailhook fiasco in '92. I think most civilians who have never served (Think DeLay, Lott, Cheney, etc.) don't realize just how image conscious and maniacally politically correct the U.S. military really is.

That would leave only civilian women. (Along with exercise, the military's standard prescription for stress) The place is crawling with bitter, humiliated Iraqis, many of them fundamentalists, who can't stand the sight of Americans. How could you trust them?

Another comparison to Vietnam, but without the alcohol and with more heat.

Has anyone ever seen 'Miss Saigon'? I saw it for the first time 2 weeks ago, and loved it. 'Miss Baghdad', anyone? I doubt it.