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Roommate Of Pregnant Marine Who Vanished Last Month Is Ordered To Return To N.C.

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by gretagreen January 10, 2008 10:48 PM EST
If she''s bipolar, why did they let her join the military?

Maybe she''s not bipolar, maybe she''s just another female member of the military who REALLY was raped. The stats are pretty shocking.
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by feelfree1 January 10, 2008 10:36 PM EST

Related:

"A 2003 report financed by the Department of Defense revealed that nearly one-third of a nationwide sample of female veterans seeking health care through the VA said they experienced rape or attempted rape during their service. Of that group, 37 percent said they were raped multiple times, and 14 percent reported they were gang raped."

www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr07/Zeese14.htm
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by feelfree1 January 10, 2008 10:34 PM EST

Related:

"Pentagon Won''t Probe KBR Rape Charges"

"DoD IG Says the Justice Dept. Is Still Investigating the Alleged Gang-Rape"

www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4099514&page=1

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".....14-year-old Abeer Qassim Al-Janabi was stalked, gang-raped, shot in the head and her corpse burned in her own home in Mahmoudiya, Iraq. Four U.S. soldiers and one former soldier are charged since been convicted with the crimes committed March 12, 2006."

"The soldiers were so confident of their abilities to achieve their intended crimes that they rounded up the Al-Janabi family from their daily chores in broad daylight. Pfc. Stephen Green allegedly shot Abeer%u2019s parents and 5-year-old sister to death in the room next to where she was being raped by Sgt. Paul Cortez. His buddy, Pfc. James Barker held the struggling, crying teenager down while two other soldiers, Pfc. Jesse Spielman and Pfc. Bryan Howard, reportedly stood watch."

http://thehollytree.blogspot.com/2007/03/one-year-ago-today-us-soldiers.html
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by slim1h2o January 10, 2008 10:32 PM EST
formrusmcsgt at 07:28 PM : Jan 10, 2008

I was talking about GPS, not triangulation, yes I am familiar with what you are talking about.
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by formrusmcsgt January 10, 2008 10:28 PM EST
The technology is just too new, thus far.

Posted by slim1h2o at 07:27 PM : Jan 10, 2008

All towers record hits from cell phones. How do you think they charge you for airtime?
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by slim1h2o January 10, 2008 10:27 PM EST
Everyone knows that a cell phone will lead police to your location. Same for not contacting her family.

Posted by formrusmcsgt at 07:12 PM : Jan 10, 2008

Some phones do, some don''t. But more importantly, most 911 centers, and police agencies, do not have the equipment to track people that way.

The technology is just too new, thus far.
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by formrusmcsgt January 10, 2008 10:26 PM EST
And this from someone says she''''s a deserter, while overwhelming evidence says, foul play is involved.

She called her mother, prior to her disappearance, 12 times a week!

Posted by slim1h2o at 07:19 PM : Jan 10, 2008

There is no report of ANY evidence of foul play, much less "overwhelming".

If she''s on the lamb, she knows they''ll tap the family''s phone and surveil them as well.

Her own family characterizes her as a chronic liar. Her own family for pete''s sake!

I sincerely hope that nothing has happened to her and that she is simply a deserter.
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by toolmangler-2009 January 10, 2008 10:23 PM EST
"The sheriff''s department said Lauterbach''s mother said that her daughter, of Montgomery, Ohio, had witnessed an incident at Camp Lejeune and was to testify about it.
Sheriff''s department officials said evidence causes them to be concerned about Lauterbach''s disappearance, WITN reported.
The Marine''s car was found Monday at Jacksonville''s bus station, Brown told the Daily News, and her cell phone had been found at Camp Lejeune''s front gate on December 20.
Her mother reported her missing on December 19, and told the sheriff''s department "that she was very suspicious that something bad may have happened to her daughter," the department said in a news release."

http://2164th.blogspot.com/2008/01/lance-cpl-maria-lauterbach-usmc.html
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by formrusmcsgt January 10, 2008 10:23 PM EST
Good point. Shows how desperate the military are to recruit. Seven years of the moron-in-chief in charge has taken its toll, no doubt, on morale and the ability of the military to find and retain quality candidates.
Posted by cdfoxtrot at 06:45 PM : Jan 10, 2008

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Two weeks ago, the Pentagon announced the "good news" that the army had met its recruiting goal for October, the first month in a five-year plan to add 65,000 new soldiers to the ranks by 2012.

But Pentagon statistics show the army met that goal by accepting a higher percentage of enlistees with criminal records, drug or alcohol problems, or health conditions that would have ordinarily disqualified them from service.

In each fiscal year since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, statistics show, the army has accepted a growing percentage of recruits who do not meet its own minimum fitness standards. The October statistics show that at least 1 of every 5 recruits required a waiver to join the service, leading military analysts to conclude that the army is lowering standards more than it has in decades.
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by slim1h2o January 10, 2008 10:19 PM EST
True, but at this point, it''''s only an allegation.

Posted by formrusmcsgt at 07:13 PM : Jan 10, 2008

And this from someone says she''s a deserter, while overwhelming evidence says, foul play is involved.

She called her mother, prior to her disappearance, 12 times a week!
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