The War Is No Mistake.....

[HysteryDiagnosis]

http://the-spark.net/cs/45001.html



A veteran from Vietnam explained his readiness to refuse in the following way: "This is an example of the hushed up happenings that occurred in Vietnam....Anyone who thinks that everyone who has ever been in uniform is some kind of patriotic icon has never been in battle. Military life is not easy for the grunts who have to face the enemy up close. Self preservation sometimes drives men to defy idiotic orders. A lot of "crimes" were committed in Vietnam. Stressed out kids who lost close friends and were sure that they were next did some things that were never reported. How many officers were "fragged" will never be known, but the vets know it happened. I know it happened. I was there."

[BeHereNow]

1. kick for the bottom line

you said it oh so well.
BHN

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Some officers were marked for fragging, and everybody threw $$ into

a pool to be collected by whoever did the job.

Any officer who repeatedly got people killed with stupid orders or put his own troops at risk with grandstanding (e.g. volunteering his unit for something nasty, dangerous & unnecessary) might become a candidate for fragging.

"Frag" as a verb originally referred to throwing a fragmentation grenade, but the meaning was expanded to include any method by which an officer might be assassinated or deliberately injured by his own troops.

Let's just say I didn't acquire this information from a book.