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Old 10-14-2008, 11:22 PM
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I was watching Jarhead, the part when that dude gets killed while training. Has anyone ever died in military training camp from a firearm?
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I would venture to say yes. It is bound to have happened at least once over the many decades the military has been around.
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I wonder if the family can file a lawsuit?
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i doubt it. its training, **** happens
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Are you a soldier?
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Check this out:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Conten...3/521durob.asp

The Feres Doctrine, named after Rudolph Feres, who died in a 1947 barracks fire, bars families of service members from suing the military, even for noncombat related deaths. Feres's widow tried to sue the Army, but in 1950 the Supreme Court ruled that making the military liable would undermine the 1946 Federal Tort Claims Act, which protects the government in combat-related deaths. Over the years the law, because of the Feres decision, has been broadly read so as to protect the military from almost every lawsuit involving the armed forces.
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Originally Posted by Finite1
Check this out:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Conten...3/521durob.asp

The Feres Doctrine, named after Rudolph Feres, who died in a 1947 barracks fire, bars families of service members from suing the military, even for noncombat related deaths. Feres's widow tried to sue the Army, but in 1950 the Supreme Court ruled that making the military liable would undermine the 1946 Federal Tort Claims Act, which protects the government in combat-related deaths. Over the years the law, because of the Feres decision, has been broadly read so as to protect the military from almost every lawsuit involving the armed forces.
Wow, I think that act allows the military to treat soldiers carelessly at times.
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We had a guy get half of his face blown off with a Light anti tank weapon when I was in basic. It was really gross because most of us were wearing parts of him.
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I heard of a guy that died from skydiving training. You never hear about these things in the news.
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Are you a soldier?
no i am not a soldier, i am a MARINE
Old 10-15-2008, 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by jsteele90
no i am not a soldier, i am a MARINE
Did you feel you didn't have enough discipline in your life?
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Originally Posted by Daniel92
Did you feel you didn't have enough discipline in your life?
What do you mean by that?????
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^^^ couldn't cut it as a soldier lol nah j/k man much respect... we were always told stories of " a couple years back there was a private that didn't follow directions and stood up instead of low crawling and well he got his brains blown out" if they are true who knows didn't happen during my training
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couldnt cut it as a soldier? thats funny.
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Originally Posted by 1FASTBIRD
What do you mean by that?????
Calm, boy, calm.
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Originally Posted by Daniel92
Did you feel you didn't have enough discipline in your life?
Around here where I live, in the San Fernando Valley, there are guys who get in trouble in the streets, so they join the military to get out of trouble. They might also want to learn discipline.

Do you guys know any gang members in the military? What do you think of them?

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personally i dont, but i know there are gang members in the service. as long as they do their job i dont care what kind of past they have
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Originally Posted by Daniel92
I wonder if the family can file a lawsuit?
i dont t hink u can file a lawsuite..ur pretty much property of the marines when u inlist and are in active dutie...dont u have to sign like a waiver or something when u start pretty much saying u have no rights
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Originally Posted by erasedgod
Calm, boy, calm.
Who are you calling a Boy
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Originally Posted by jsteele90
couldnt cut it as a soldier? thats funny.
I second that


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