At least 7 dead, 20 wounded in Fort Hood shooting

[PDH]

Sorry cal, even you are capable of discussing something without forcibly trying to relate it to boobs, no matter the subject.

Sorry, I promise to try harder. 

Right there...word "boobs" written and you add nothing. You are the fail.

[grumbler]

Soldier Readiness Center or "SRC" refers to a place where soldiers process themselves for deployment, i.e. filling out personnel paperwork, making sure wills are filed, and basic medical examinations. I suspect this gym was re-arranged to support a battalion or two at a time for this purpose. We had a similar facility at Fort Stewart; an old gym became the "soldier readiness center", used simply for processing us to go to the fight. Coming back from Iraq, we went through the same facility.

Ah.  Not the sort of dimwitted thing the Navy tried in the early 1980s, then.

You are broadly correct, though. The Army does have a habit of changing language to suit its needs. The words 'Soldier' and 'Family' are capitalized in any official army document, for instance.

I have always loved to laugh at pretentious punctuation, but that isn't as bad as PC names like the Navy had (Enlisted Dining Facility" for mess decks, for instance).

[alfred russel]

My conversation went something like this:

"Mom, what is a homosexual?"
"Shh, don't say that word.  Those are very, very bad people."

When I was a kid, I was eating dinner in a restaurant with my family and pontificating on the ickiness of girls when I proclaimed, "I hope I turn out to be gay." My father sternly said, don't say that, which prompted me to start yelling "I don't like girls and want to be gay!"

[Admiral Yi]

When I was a kid, I was eating dinner in a restaurant with my family and pontificating on the ickiness of girls when I proclaimed, "I hope I turn out to be gay." My father sternly said, don't say that, which prompted me to start yelling "I don't like girls and want to be gay!"

If only someone had been there to teach you about anal lube.

[Malthus]

How does "Don't ask, don't tell" work with counselling, anyways? Are lesbian/gay/bi soldiers allowed to talk about this when in session with a psychiatric or spiritual counsellor?

Mind you, in 1983 a German general was forced to resign over allegations of him being homosexual (though general consensus at the time was that there was no connection between being gay and being a security risk).
Little Syt, 6 or 7 at the time, asked his mom what "homosexual" meant.
"When boys sleep with boys."
"You mean in the same room, like at summer camp?"
"No, in the same bed."
"I wouldn't want that. I like my bed for myself." 

My conversation went something like this:

"Mom, what is a homosexual?"
"Shh, don't say that word.  Those are very, very bad people."

My dad was pretty well entirely ignorant of homosexuality until he was an adult. My mom, who had numerous gay friends, eventually enlightened him. He was cool with it, just surprised.

My dad is - different.

For example, one of his collegues was undergoing a sex change - "he" got the hormone treatments, grew boobs, started wearing a dress, insisted on being called by "her" female name - and my dad did not notice for months.

[Caliga]

When I was a kid, I was eating dinner in a restaurant with my family and pontificating on the ickiness of girls when I proclaimed, "I hope I turn out to be gay." My father sternly said, don't say that, which prompted me to start yelling "I don't like girls and want to be gay!"

That's funny.  I recall numerous occasions where my dad would somehow manage to live through an epic bitching and put-down session, and then privately say to me later "son, the best advice I can give you about women is: BE GAY."

[stjaba]

Back to the original topic of this thread...

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" - an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" - before opening fire, the base commander said Friday.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FORT_HOOD_SHOOTING?SITE=TXDAM&TEMPLATE=HOME.html&SECTION=HOME

[DGuller]

Back to the original topic of this thread...

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" - an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" - before opening fire, the base commander said Friday.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FORT_HOOD_SHOOTING?SITE=TXDAM&TEMPLATE=HOME.html&SECTION=HOME

Hmm, I'm starting to suspect that it may have been an act of Muslim terror.

[Admiral Yi]

I wonder how the dude got his hands on a weapon.

[The Minsky Moment]

The AF is big on this "warrior" thing too.  Alas.

Not surprising that as the missions delegated to the armed forces expand to things other than fighting wars that more rhetorical emphasis is put on "warrior"-ness.

[Syt]

When I was a kid, I was eating dinner in a restaurant with my family and pontificating on the ickiness of girls when I proclaimed, "I hope I turn out to be gay." My father sternly said, don't say that, which prompted me to start yelling "I don't like girls and want to be gay!"

When I was in my "girls are icky" phase I declared that if I ever got married it would be to my sister.   

[Razgovory]

I wonder how the dude got his hands on a weapon.

Probably from Ft. Hood.  I think they have lots of weapons there.

[Admiral Yi]

Probably from Ft. Hood.  I think they have lots of weapons there.

Yeah, just lying in a big pile in the rec room.

[Syt]

Probably from Ft. Hood.  I think they have lots of weapons there.

Yeah, just lying in a big pile in the rec room.

Warrior Readiness Center. Duh.

[Gbeagle]

Probably from Ft. Hood.  I think they have lots of weapons there.

I thought on base generally only the MPs carried weapons, and the rest were all locked up? I might be wrong though.