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Fort Hood soldier from New York drowns in Texas lake

A soldier from New York stationed at Fort Hood has drowned while swimming with friends at a Central Texas lake.

Authorities identified the victim as 25-year-old Pfc. Christopher Kent Heinz of Lockport, N.Y.

Bell County officials say Heinz was with friends Sunday morning at Stillhouse Hollow Lake near Salado when he disappeared while trying to swim across a cove. Divers recovered his body Sunday afternoon.

Heinz joined the Army in January 2012. He was assigned to Company C, 3rd Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood.

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Army identifies victim in Fort Knox shooting

A civilian employee fatally shot in a Fort Knox parking lot had worked at the Kentucky military post for nearly a decade, the Army said Friday.

Lloyd R. Gibert, 51, was shot on Wednesday outside the Army Human Resources Command building. He had worked in the human resources division at Fort Knox since 2004, according to a statement from the Army.

Police arrested a 36-year-old Fort Knox soldier, Marquinta E. Jacobs, on Thursday in Portland, Tenn., where Jacobs’ mother lives.

Investigators found eight shell casings at the scene, and a witness said Gibert had a “verbal exchange” with Jacobs before he was shot multiple times, authorities said.

The slaying prompted a brief lockdown at the post, and security was heightened after the gates were reopened.

The FBI said in a criminal complaint against Jacobs that he fled the scene after the shooting, went home and then drove his motorcycle to Tennessee. The bike was later found at his mother’s house, and he was apprehended a short time later in a different vehicle.

Jacobs made his initial appearance in federal court Friday, where a magistrate judge transferred Jacobs to military custody. He will face premeditated murder and aggravated assault charges, authorities said.

The FBI said Jacobs, an Army sergeant, fired a .45-caliber handgun at Gibert, “striking him several times.” Gibert was transported to Fort Knox‘s hospital, where he died that evening.

Army investigators said the shooting arose from a “domestic incident.”

Investigators found ammunition at the home for a .45-caliber Glock pistol that matched the kind used at the crime scene.

Jacobs enlisted in the Army in 2004 and has been at Fort Knox since 2009. He worked as an equipment maintenance specialist in the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, according to Fort Knox.

Army investigators will perform an Article 32 investigation, similar to a civilian grand jury, to determine whether there is enough evidence to proceed with a court-martial against Jacobs, Fort Knox said in a statement Friday.

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Soldier held for questioning in connection with Fort Knox shooting

A soldier was held for questioning Thursday in connection with a shooting at Fort Knox that left one Army civilian employee dead, Army officials said.

Authorities in Tennessee were questioning the soldier, who is assigned to Fort Knox‘s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division.

Special Agents from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command are continuing the investigation and as previously released, the shooting appears to be a domestic issue and not a random act of violence,” said Chris Grey, spokesman for the independent Army investigative agency.

An employee of the U.S. Army Human Resources Command was shot and killed in a parking lot at Kentucky’s Fort Knox on Wednesday.

The identity of the victim was being withheld pending notification of family.

The Army post’s gates were locked down shortly after the shooting as a security measure.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2,063

As of Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at least 2,063 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.

The AP count is the same as the Defense Department‘s tally, last updated Tuesday at 10 a.m. EDT.

At least 1,713 military service members have died in Afghanistan as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.

Outside of Afghanistan, the department reports at least 119 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, 11 were the result of hostile action.

The AP count of total OEF casualties outside of Afghanistan is four more than the department’s tally.

The Defense Department also counts three military civilian deaths.

Since the start of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, 18,360 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department.

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The latest identifications reported by the military:

— Chief Warrant Officer Curtis S. Reagan, 43, of Summerville, S.C., died March 29 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, from a noncombat-related illness; assigned to the 603rd Aviation Support Battalion, 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield, Ga.

— Sgt. Michael C. Cable, 26, of Philpot, Ky., died March 27, from injuries sustained when his unit was attacked by enemy forces in Shinwar District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan; assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky.

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Obama’s CDC Has Stackable Coffins Ready…

By Suzanne Eovaldi

CDC Obamas CDC has stackable coffins ready...

FEMA clearly is fast becoming the Obama administration’s secret in-country military operations that is scaring citizens out of their wits.  A video narrated by Dale Bohannan has popped up online with photos of what first appear to be porta-potties.  But on closer inspection, the black plastic containers are what the narrator reveals to be as many as 125,000 outsized casket liners that are in no way there to service the needs of live American citizens!

Bohannan drove down a newly cut road through a soybean field in Madison, Georgia and spoke with the field’s owner, who told him the Center for Disease Control (CDC) owned these coffin liners and was leasing his land for their storage!   “These are cremation containers for multiple bodies–patent # 5,425,163–burnable, (and) generate very little pollution.  They are multi-use cremation containers,” says an unidentified commenter to this video.  Further information claims that the lids have been modified so they could be STACKED easily because “Americans can withstand the notion of many bodies being thrown into these coffins far better than they could the sight of bulldozers tossing bodies in big holes as was seen after the large tsunami overseas.”

Images of these black, disposable coffins cement in the minds of many Americans the notion that our government is not to be trusted and that our government is not really looking out for us, but rather is looking out for the higher ups, the politicians, and the elites in Washington, D.C.

The first Amendment guarantees “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”  But the newly updated manual for the 3rd Infantry Division, 1st Brigade Combat Team now stationed in various American states includes, for the first time, protocols for subduing civil unrest and crowd control of US citizens.  A federal manual being used by FEMA and the Joint Terror Task Force, “…gives the government the authority to step in and IMMEDIATELY crush any civil disturbance or turmoil which might occur.  Civil disturbances are defined as riots, acts of violence, insurrection, unlawful obstruction or assemblage or other disorders prejudicial to public law and order.” But who, exactly, will define “unlawful obstruction or assemblage” or “disorders prejudicial to public law and order?”

In 1968, Operation Garden Plot was initiated by the Department of Defense for the purpose of creating “…military preparations for suppressing domestic civil disturbance…” But Americans have begun to ask who our government is preparing to fight and for what reasons! Why did Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security need 1.6 billion bullets and 7000 fully automatic rifles? (By the way, when purchased for the DHS, these rifles are called “personal defense weapons.” When you and I buy SEMI-automatic rifles, we are accused of owning “assault weapons.”)

What does she need all of those weapons for, all of those bullets? Who is the DHS preparing to kill?