{"id":32055,"date":"2012-09-18T13:38:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T17:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32055"},"modified":"2012-09-18T13:47:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T17:47:19","slug":"horseplay-kills-says-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32055","title":{"rendered":"Horseplay kills says Army"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tman and Country Singer sent us a link to a Stars & Stripes<\/a> article reprinted from The News Tribune<\/a> about how two fobbits were playing with what the S & S says was a ” light anti-tank weapon” when it was fired and struck one in the chest;<\/p>\n

Army officials initially called Turner\u2019s death a \u201ctraining accident,\u201d but now are bringing charges of manslaughter against Spc. Francisco Perez, who\u2019s accused of firing a rocket at Turner inside their forward base at Combat Outpost Kherwar in Afghanistan\u2019s Logar province.<\/p>\n

Perez allegedly killed Turner, 21, on Jan. 11 with a light anti-tank weapon, a shoulder-fired rocket launcher designed for use against armored vehicles and other hardened targets. The weapon did not detonate, but was fired at close range and pierced Turner\u2019s upper chest, according to Turner\u2019s family and Army charging documents.<\/p>\n

Perez\u2019s assignment called on him to store weapons as soldiers returned to their base from missions. Witness reports in documents reviewed by Turner\u2019s mother, Charlotte Cox-Turner, suggest Perez had been scolded more than once for \u201chorseplay\u201d with weapons in his charge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know what corrective measures can be taken to prevent privates from firing rockets at each other in a storage facility. Some things are just inevitable, I suppose. I’ve seen them poke each other with atropine injectors playing stupid games. But, rockets, that’s a whole ‘nother thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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