Talk:Frag (military)
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Did fragging incidents actually occur in Vietnam? I've heard that they were more myth than reality.
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[edit] Yes, they did.
Read The Collapse of the Armed Forces, an article from the Armed Forces Journal. Figures from here show about a 1000.
By this way, I think we need a disambiguation page here. Fragging someone in a computer game is not as serious as fragging someone in the delta. We need two different articles. --Tphcm 03:47, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
Much less they say the unfriendly commander was given three warnings, but the article only spells out two.
Who says there have been two instances of fragging in Iraq so far? How come no one has ever heard about it?
P.S. Yes, I know, if it is verified the conservative-echo-chambe-media is why no one has heard about it, but I haven't heard it anywhere including the internet. Maprovonsha172 9 July 2005 03:53 (UTC)
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- Looky here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14150285/
[edit] UCMJ
What would fragging be considered legally? Mutiny? In the event that someone was convicted, what would the penalty be? Execution?
JesseG 02:51, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Historically
Perhaps a history of incidents that occured before the term "frag" was coined should be added. There is a reference to an artillery shell put under the bed of Braxton Bragg, and I am sure more would be found with a little research.
p.s. Just cuz your holy Internet doesn't have info on frags in Iraq, means nothing, the majority of our stories there have yet to be told. Tortuga 16:25, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Iraq 2005
Fragging: in the 'conservative echo chamber' of mainstream news media. That airhead doesn't even know that the mainstream media is liberal-biased aka NY Times, CBS, AP, CNN, MSNBC. . .
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8246860
In the military, these officers are commonly referred to as a**hole*. Nothing new here except an awareness that some arses are never clued in to the fact that there is life and death involved in the arena of their stupidity -- it is only appropriate that they be reminded at the level of their awareness. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him think.
[edit] Lebanon 2006
Changed the language - it hasn't been confirmed yet that Israel deliberately shelled U.N posts. Also, whoever added that sentence needs to avail themselves of a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary.
- I removed the claim, deliberate or not I do not think it qualifies as Fraging.--Anss123 11:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
The use of the word "murder" in the context of eliminating a dangerous officer does not meet Wikipedia's NPOV guidelines. Fragging may, at times, be a highly commendable and brave action.
- Of course it is murder. Killing someone in a premeditated, non-judicial way is what constituates murder, and this is a blatant occurance of that very act. That it might garner support among the troops takes nothing away from that. --193.11.220.45 23:49, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Iraq
I removed from the article references to Hasan Akbar and Alberto Martinez. Akbar's crimes do not fit fragging as described in the rest of the article. Also, the link to Martinez links to a drug lord, so I'm assuming it is not the same person. No references were cited.
Matt the heathen 64.42.209.81 17:00, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
