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Alpha-17
I heard about that yesterday. Sounds like he left behind a wife and a 7 month-old baby. That hits home.
On the less glamorous side, I've heard he had a bad conduct discharge from the Corps, and was working for a PMC getting paid a fair amount for being there. Makes him less of a heroic freedom fighter, and more of a mercenary or at best a security guard. Nothing against either mercenaries or security guards, but the bad conduct discharge puts him in a negative light for me.
Story reads he was a corrections officer until the fighting started and then he decided to PMC. I don't think anyone here is qualified to state his true motivations for doing so. At 22 most people are motivated by all kinds of things from money to "Damn I was a Marine once...I gotta do something with myself that makes a difference."
Also until somebody has the details regarding the nature of his discharge, we probably shouldn't speculate.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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