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echo: barktopus
to: Tony Ingenoso
from: Bob Ackley
date: 2003-03-24 06:12:48
subject: Is the 101`st soldier an illegal combatant?

Replying to a message of Tony Ingenoso to All:

 TI> From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

 TI> No, just some disgruntled boob who had a beef about being disiplined
 TI> previously.  If true, expect an ordinary court martial on a murder
 TI> rap, and under these circumstances, maybe a firing squad.

I don't think a firing squad, more likely life-without-parole in
Leavenworth.  Which, incidentally, is the source of the term 'getting the
shaft'; the prison didn't have a gallows to execute prisoners, so the
prison sergeant major adapted one of the building's elevator shafts as a
substitute.

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