DoD Identifies Navy Casualty (#1827)

[leftchick]

RIP.... :(


DoD Identifies Navy Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.



Petty Officer 1st Class Thomas C. Hull, 41, of Princeton, Ill., died Aug. 2 on board the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Arabian Gulf after being medically evacuated to the carrier for a non-combat related incident. Hull was an operations specialist assigned to the USS Princeton, homeported in San Diego, Calif.

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2005/nr20050804-4321.html


My sig line will speak for me....

[lvx35]

1. That's not a combat death though, is it? n/t

[Chicago Democrat]

2. This fake distinction pisses me off. I wonder how many Soldiers really

died. Being there is dangerous and part of mission. They screw the families out of 250,000 which they need and deserve!

[lvx35]

6. Don't forget the scandal regarding deaths in Germany.

Yeah, I didn't want to invalidate the death, but I did want to point out that the 1800 is only a fraction, the combat deaths. Anyway, there was a thread around here that said something about all the troops who were airlifted to Germany for emergency help and died there weren't listed as combat deaths because they died in germany. It may have been hooey, but it was still cause for alarm!

[Chicago Democrat]

7. Excelllent point!

Government lies as a matter of course now... disgusting and its all because of the lies at the top.

[Igel]

8. Not entirely a fake distinction.

I was doing a church's books; the ministers had invested a ton of money (comparatively speaking) and lost it. Still, over the years, the investments had netted a positive return.

I was asked to draw up a comparison of the returns that were earned after deducting the losses and comparing it to zero, what the money would have earned in a mattress or a cookie jar. I bitched; then I drew up the financial statement.

The CPA took one look at it and said it was a crock of shit, I couldn't compare the net earnings with zero, I had to compare the net earnings with what a safe, FDIC account would have earned; I nodded, "Of course, *you* talk to the pastor, I tried."

Point: For every thousand troops in peace time, there are casualties that occur; the number increases with deployment, but doesn't drop to zero when non-deployed, so comparing the non-combat deaths while deployed against zero non-combat deaths is a mistake.

The proper number to be outraged over isn't the number of non-combat deaths while deployed, but {# non-combat deaths deployed) minus (# non-combat deaths expected while not deployed).

[Skittles]

3. jeez leftchick that scared me

haven't heard from my Navy Reserve coworker Clay since Friday - he'd in Baghdad, was going on a mission - yeah I know it is not unusual to not hear from soldiers but honesly I don't know how the families can stand it

[leftchick]

5. Skittles I don't know how either

My Marine nephew should be heading out within the year and I am afraid my cousin may have to do another stint in the Army reserve. It is truly madness now! Time to bring them home and quit this "MORE TrOOPS" Crappola. Hear that Hil, Joe and Joe???

:grr:

[Demonaut]

4. surprised they reported this, we lost many sailors on deployment

and very few made the news back home. of course this was when raygun was pres