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Authorities in North Carolina charged a Fort Bragg soldier Saturday with kidnapping and rape of a fellow soldier assigned to his unit.

Johnathan Simpson, 26, of Moonstone Court, was charged with first-degree rape, first-degree kidnapping and sexual battery, Fayetteville police said in a statement. Simpson allegedly committed the assault on April 25.

Simpson was taken into custody at his unit on Fort Bragg with the assistance of the Fort Bragg Military Police. Detectives with the FPD’s Special Victims unit were assisted by the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division agents, WTVD reported.
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more about fort bragg:

http://www.mediafilter.org/caq/CAQ57Racism.html

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HenryKrinkle posted:

more about fort bragg:

http://www.mediafilter.org/caq/CAQ57Racism.html



Apparently, not only the macho, hell for leather spirit of the 82nd Airborne and Special Forces, but also some of the racism may rub off on the hundreds of international special forces including troops from Germany, France, Great Britain, the Ukraine, and Australia who train at Ft. Bragg for varying periods each year.



Yep its all ur favorites. greatest hits produced daily

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cars posted:

Yep its all ur favorites. greatest hits produced daily



or lamentable but unavoidable misses, as the case may be

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/magazine/what-if-ptsd-is-more-physical-than-psychological.html?_r=0
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swampman posted:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/magazine/what-if-ptsd-is-more-physical-than-psychological.html?_r=0



literally the only real trauma ever

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what if ptsd is a disease of the flesh, instead of an deadly spell cast by a vengeful wizard
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I was informed that PTSD isn't a manifstation of cognitive dissonance on the behavioral plane, but a unique physical affliction that soldiers cant be protected from even thru the most one-sided warfare, via that article, which helps solidify my opiniono f military chaplains as fundamentally masturbators. Remember you dont pick the fights around here bub. I pick the fights baby bub. Talk to you later, maybe when an admin is logged on eh?
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*x rays starving child's skull as it writhes in sun-cracked mud* no shrapnel, tell this "trauma case" to start a business.
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as you can see, the divot the sergeant put in his wife's skull with the beer stein falls well below the blast force of an improvised explosive device as encountered by a heroic United States Marine rapist. reimbursement denied.
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the charges in the OP don't suggest the victim took damage to the brain so at least we know they won't have any post traumatic stress. mitigating factor to consider as the broken justice system crucifies another heartsick man in uniform.
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With effort I can feel a little bad for troops injured mentally or physically on a battlefield, the way I can feel bad for a dog that got its face mangled as it attempted to kill a badger or porcupine. However, when I hear even the faintest whiff of Drone Operators Feel Bad ;___; I want to scream like an insane person
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One thing about "frotterism" is while it still means rubbing against people (women) sexually in a public setting, the term has also been co-opted by gay culture as the term for directly rubbing 2 (or more) dicks against each other. Kind of an interesting thing to me because it reframes a form of sexual assault into a consensual male/male sword fight. Is this an important movement in the landscape or just something that gives creeps confusing google results? Hard to say. I don't got time to think about it.
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well, i can't WAIT for these murdering rapist hicks to be replaced by indifferent MACHINES. Reminder: the number of rapes committed by drones: 0.
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camera_obscura posted:

well, i can't WAIT for these murdering rapist hicks to be replaced by indifferent MACHINES. Reminder: the number of rapes committed by drones: 0.


they're murderous rapist hicks extended into distant machine bodies. it is only a matter of time.

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tpaine posted:

i've posted it before and i will post it again, ptsd is the latent humanity trying to reemerge



the question is what got me involved with Troop skeptics on the old forum and into fights with vile rat etc., my personal experience with how much differently the court system in a military-heavy state treats, say, the PTSD claims of a discharged rear-line Army clerk vs. those of his wife whose hand he broke by slamming it against a kitchen counter. The conflation of traumatic brain injury with PTSD dovetails with contradictory claims of PTSD suffered by drone pilots and represents the warping of united states political culture toward the cult of the military in everything from the crime rate to the welfare state. only two types of people have "real" post traumatic stress in the propaganda version of the world, 1) those who have fought for the "right" side and 2) their enemies, with Our Troops suffering for their noble deeds & the bad guys suffering because of mistreatment by their bosses, with both reflecting the unconscious guilt people feel in the u.s. for what the military actually does. and so like magic, domestic concerns about health coverage are transformed into support for 1) funding the military and 2) funding the military. post traumatic stress is real, claims by most u.s. military members are farcical given the casualty numbers in recent wars, and the number one provider of post traumatic stress to the world is the united states military.

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cars posted:

the number one provider of post traumatic stress to the world is the united states military.


challenge accepted

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shriekingviolet posted:

camera_obscura posted:

well, i can't WAIT for these murdering rapist hicks to be replaced by indifferent MACHINES. Reminder: the number of rapes committed by drones: 0.

they're murderous rapist hicks extended into distant machine bodies. it is only a matter of time.



we'll just have to remove the element of direct human control then!

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tpaine posted:

i wonder whatever happened to guys like omar khadr


He got out the way

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glomper_stomper posted:

reportedly people...including troops, Department of Defense officials and Navy families.


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cars posted:

2) their enemies (....) the bad guys suffering because of mistreatment by their bosses



Good post. I agree with everything except this (unless I misunderstood).

If you mean enemies as in ISIS fighters, for example, they are never treated by media (or otherwise) as anything other than rabid animals. The only western countries where this is different is in Sweden (and I believe Finland also) where returning fighters are offered counseling and integration/de-radicalization services. Although that led to a public outcry.

Even civilian casualties and suffering is rarely mentioned unless it can be blamed on the enemy.

The foundation of war, and indeed the job of war-time media, is the constant dehumanization of the enemy. Acknowledging PTSD as anything other than a tragic sacrifice by the noble good guys is not possible as the enemy are never conceived to be fully human. As you point out it serves to manipulate the public discourse so even the common anti-war position seeks to "bring our troops home" rather than end civilian deaths from endless illegal and imperialist war.

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Gssh posted:

cars posted:

2) their enemies (....) the bad guys suffering because of mistreatment by their bosses

Good post. I agree with everything except this (unless I misunderstood).

If you mean enemies as in ISIS fighters, for example, they are never treated by media (or otherwise) as anything other than rabid animals. The only western countries where this is different is in Sweden (and I believe Finland also) where returning fighters are offered counseling and integration/de-radicalization services. Although that led to a public outcry.

Even civilian casualties and suffering is rarely mentioned unless it can be blamed on the enemy.

The foundation of war, and indeed the job of war-time media, is the constant dehumanization of the enemy. Acknowledging PTSD as anything other than a tragic sacrifice by the noble good guys is not possible as the enemy are never conceived to be fully human. As you point out it serves to manipulate the public discourse so even the common anti-war position seeks to "bring our troops home" rather than end civilian deaths from endless illegal and imperialist war.



in the u.s. the press likes to publish "i was a terrorist" stories about how terrible and traumatizing it was to whatever anonymous source the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights coughs up.

like:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/12/middleeast/isis-taliban-afghanistan-defectors/

note how these two guys neatly slide from "isis is way too fucked up for us, hardened islamo-monsters, to bear" to "oh yes drones are good, american bombing is the only thing that can help us now"

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often of course they flavor it for quick western liberal consumption along the normal lines of identity politics, here's one like that:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/06/world/meast/isis-female-fighter/
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Those examples don't really prove your point though.

cnn posted:

The two men are part of a program NDS run called the Popular Uprising Program, intended to harness local militants to fight ISIS.



They aren't described as 'enemies', but rather agents of an Afghan intelligence program fighting ISIS (i.e. allies).

The woman is described as 'young', 'seduced' and 'regretful of her immersion in radical Islam', with no indication being given of her having been involved in anything more than dress-code police. Not an enemy but a misguided damsel lacking any agency and therefore readily preyed upon by the actual enemy.

Either way, neither article mentioned PTSD specifically. I did a number of google searches trying to find articles mentioning PTSD in enemy combatants but couldn't find anything substantial. Although I'm not exposed to the same media as you so perhaps you are right and I fail to see it.

It's perhaps a rather small point I'm taking issue with though.

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yeah i dont think we're disagreeing.. like the idea is those guys are ex taliban but are traumatized by isis. and the idea is that this woman was shanghaied then traumatized by isis. same narrative.
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in my personal experience post-bush Democratic liberals need that soft sell in the united states in their weaker moments.
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http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/10/the-us-military-pampered-safe-and-very-scared.html

According to a 2012 study by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) the risk to ones life is lower for soldiers than for civilians:

In the past two decades (which include two periods of intense combat operations), the crude overall mortality rate among U.S. service members was 71.5 per 100,000 . In 2005, in the general U.S. population, the crude overall mortality rate among 15-44 year olds was 127.5 per 100,000 p-yrs.

The huge difference is quite astonishing. The death rate for soldiers would still have been lower than for civilians if the U.S. had started another medium size war:

If the age-specific mortality rates that affected the U.S. general population in 2005 had affected the respective age-groups of active component military members throughout the period of interest for this report, there would have been approximately 13,198 (53%) more deaths among military members overall.
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marimite posted:

http://www.moonofalabama.org/



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