No Wonder There Were No Fatalities…UPDATED

Greetings and Salutations!
Whelp.
The guy who shot up Fort Stewart has been ID’d:

Definitely the face of a future rocket scientist or nookular physicist and sheeee-it right? /sarc.

Fucker must have been a bolo-badge bastard… He couldn’t have been an Infantryman, even though 2BCT is a Stryker Brigade and “Grunt Heavy” that’s for sure. He didn’t even kill anyone… sheesh… What the fuck happened to my Army???

UPDATE INSERT: I called it. The fucker was a 92A which is an Automated Logistical Specialist i.e. a fucking supply puke. Granted I performed as a 92A at the end of my career, but that was more in-line with me being assigned to the S-4 in my capacity as the Battalion thief. ALL the blaqs tend to congregate in that MOS FWIW… the least danger, the least effort, maximum power over others (everyone has to kiss the Supply Guys ass if you EVER want to get anything) so this ties it neatly together… Jes’ Sayin’

The picture of the perp, Sgt. Quornelius ‘Two-Gee’ Radford is from a mugshot taken by one of the local Police Departments after his DUI bust three months ago…

I’d say that –might- be the motive there.
Meaning I’m guessing that Sgt. Shitbird there finally got called on the carpet for the DUI. A DUI in many instances is an absolute career ender.

ESPECIALLY for an Non-Commissioned Officer aka NCO.

Unless you’ve got ‘cover’ i.e. someone in the chain of command who’ll make things ‘go away’ usually you’ll be deep fried in oil for the offense. As to the time between the actual offense and the shooting?

Well I’m throwing out the wild-assed guess, but in many cases that I saw back in the day, the wheels of DotMil justice roll pretty fucking s-l-o-w-l-y unless it’s for something serious like rape/murder. The Chain of Command that handles a DUI is usually the Battalion Commander a light Colonel or Lt. Col. who usually does ‘group readings’ of miscreants…

Meaning they let all the guys who’re getting hit with a Field Grade Article 15 wait until they get a few of them, and the Colonel will call them in as a group to get it all done on the same day, one at a time. Trust me as I know first hand of what I speak…

Three fucking Field Grades in my time.
Miraculously managed to keep the E-4 each time.
And yeah, I had ‘cover’ thank the Good Lord.

They do this for a couple of reasons. One is to have a group of unwilling but made-to-do it after hours and weekend laborers. When you get a Field Grade, you usually get 45 days restriction to barracks, and 45 days ‘extra duty’ which means that if you get busted, you have to do allll the shit-work no one else wants to do. Painting the Battalion Building… mowing lawns with push mowers… cleaning out the Motorpool grease traps… really nasty shitty work that takes place AFTER the regular duty day up until 11:00 pm and usually up to 6-8 hours every day on the weekend for a month and a half.

It really sucks.

UNLESS you manage to know things and how to ‘skate’ professionally. Like my first Field Grade? On the first weekend, well it happened to be Memorial Day weekend. The Command Sergeant Major told me I was the only one they had doing extra duty as no one else had fucked up that month, and since he was feeling magnanimous, my ONLY detail for the long weekend was to mow the entire Battalion Area and as soon as it was done, I was done for the weekend.

OK CSM… Roger, Got it.

Now our Battalion only had 2x shitty non-self propelled POS lawnmowers, and the Battalion Area was about an acre and a half, including the Parade ground. Needless to say a LOT of territory to do by hand, in the blazing Texas Summer…

OTOH 2-8 Infantry? The Battalion next door to us? For whatever reason they had a nice and damned near brand new John Deer Industrial Grade Riding Mower. One with a HUGE cutting deck. Could go like a bat-outta-hell too.
They never let anyone use it.

Of course I used it.

It’s all in ‘who you know’ and knowing how to ask.

The first thing I did was I went down to the Shopette and bought a case and a half of beer. I then went over to 2-8’s Battalion HQ where I knew a buddy of mine had gotten the ‘bad luck of the draw’ to be pulling staff duty on Saturday, which meant he was going to be pretty disgruntled. So I rolled in with that set of beers and asked very nicely if I could rent their nice new mower for the low low price of say? A case of this Ice Cold Tall and Frosties?

Maaan… them keys were in my hand in like point zero five seconds. He got the case, and I kept the Twelve Pack. The reason for that was as I was mowing, well… let’s just say I was staying ‘hydrated’ so to speak while doing so. I had my Walkman on (remember those?) and was playing a mixtape (GOD I am dating myself!) and as I guzzled the brew, I disposed of the can by throwing it in front of me, at which point when I rode over the now empty beer can, said psycho-mower reduced any evidence to a fine spray of aluminum ‘hash’ and literally scattered it to the winds.

Needless to say, I got the job done in like an hour an a half.

When we came back frtom the long weekend, the CSM was pretty impressed… he didn’t really dress me down or give me shit. Told me he really got a kick out of my creativity. Hence why I had cover as I was his thief/dogrobber. Every good CSM has an enlisted man who does the dirty work for him, and I was that guy.

This guy however? If I was a betting man, I’d say that he was looking at the full 45 and 45, as well as 45 days forfeiture of pay, and even in the worst case scenario, a Bad Conduct Discharge which means his life was over-over either way. I want to know -who- he shot… that’d be very telling.

HOWEVER:

Got me a hunch that’s going to be fully activated if it hasn’t already. This summer has had ALLLL sorts of nigger-fatigue stories, and the noticing has gotten out of hand as far as the Leviathan is concerned… the last thing they want nor need is a nigger in uniform bustin’ caps in his chain of command right?

So yep. Add on he was already ‘in the wrong’ as soldiers by UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) are forbidden from possessing personally owned firearms on base for any reason, so nope… no ‘good guy with a gun’ was going to stop this… THAT particular pile of bullshit needs to go away… maybe.

The problem with doing that is there are SO MANY low-impulse control 2Gs in uniform, so allowing them to be heeled might not be a good idea… it’s a tough call IMO.

So More Later
Big Country