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Bryan
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Major Malik Nadal Hasan.... a major at that... wow. Just wow.Comment
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Can't you people see what Obama is turning this country into? OPEN YOUR EYES!
These soldiers are being driven mad by the threat of socialism!Comment
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Military people...what is the difference between a base and a post?Comment
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On a serious note, what a terrible tragedy...
My condolences to the families of those killed and wounded - CNN is reporting 12 dead (including one civilian police officer), and over 30 wounded.
In addition to the shooter that was killed, Major Hasan, apparently two other soldiers were taken into custody as suspects.
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It essentially means the same thing. Fort Hood is a very large army base about an hour up the road from Austin. The infantry divisions that have deployed through Iraq have been from Fort Hood. The city adjacent to the base is Killeen, which is essentially an army town. It is a giant facility with tens of thousands of military personal and civilians. Many soldiers who are posted at Fort Hood go through basic training there, etc. There's elementary, junior high and high schools on the base, for the kids of the military families.
All of the wounded are being helicoptered over to Scott & White Hospital which is a big private hospital over in Temple.
I have a friend who was supposed to be deployed back to Iraq several months from now. I hope that this guy didn't murder him.
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So it is just a different word for the same thing? I ask because the news at one point was calling it a base and then the person doing the broadcast commented that it was a post and that the military can be picky about the terms, Since then it has been a post.
My cousin's husband apparently was there not too long ago but has now moved onto somewhere in Colorado..or so we think. Hope so.Comment
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I wouldn't say instinct. I'd say logic.
When most people go on shooting rampages they are jacked on adrenaline and unprepared for the mayhem, which is why body counts are typically so low.
A dozen killed and 3 dozen wounded means the shooters knew what they were doing.
Like soldiers.
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It feels odd that one person could kill shoot so many shots in multiple locations on a military base without being taken down a lot earlier.Comment
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Found this on Yahoo...
ADGGenerally, the difference between the two refers to infrastructure and permanence at the time the base was established.
BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) has changed the way our military bases are set up, so the names "Camp" and "Fort" have lost some of their original meaning. A Fort was a fortified, larger, and more permanent base. And, a Camp was smaller, with more flexibility. Originally, Fort Benning was Camp Benning... fyi.
Branch vernacular determines the usual name for a duty station too: the Air Force calls it a base; the Army a post. But, I've heard Army personnel refer to "living on base."
Yet another example of the subtleties in our language.
Fort - permant location usually found in the states.
Base - Navy and Marines.
Camp - temp or abroad location.Comment
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