111th female death in the WAR

[Maq]

Shayna Ann Schnell

Seaman Apprentice Shayna Ann Schnell, 19, of Tell City, Ind., died as a result of injuries suffered from a vehicle accident. Schnell was serving as a master-at-arms assigned to Naval Security Force Bahrain, Jebel Ali Detachment, United Arab Emirates.
Release No. 1190-07, October 05, 2007

[MADem]

1. This is not a war death. It's sad, but it is no different than if she were killed in a taxi

crash in Italy, England, Japan or Texas. She was an MAA on an overseas tour, on leave or TAD to one of the most sophisticated cities in the region--she was no where NEAR Iraq or Afghanistan, where the war is taking place.

[Maq]

2. WARZONE sound better

Google-earth shows the relationship. Qatar and the UAe are across the waterway from Iran. Iran is next to Iraq. Did you ever hear the expression "close enough for government work"

Go easy on the US Navy. They seem to have it easy but they still die.

[MADem]

3. I am a Navy retiree who knows the region well. That's not a war zone.

Bahrain is where the poor bastards working in Anbar would love to go for liberty. In Bahrain, everyone has a maid. The living is EASY in Bahrain.

And Dubai is a playground for the very rich. It isn't a war zone at all.

The poor Sailor died in a taxi wreck. All deaths are sad, and I am sure her family is devastated, but it's a wreck that could have happened in Dallas, TX just as easily as it happened in trendy Dubai.

[Maq]

4. okay you win NO Prize available

Maq USAF Retired Dec 1981

But I may watch Screech Air Force Base in Nevada. Any women dying there might be counted; as this base, as part of the WARZONE, controls and guides the Reaper and Predator drones.

[Major Hogwash]

5. Somehow that doesn't sound like something that will make a difference in 20 years.

So, I won't get too pissed off over it. That's a good rule to go by, by the way, if it doesn't matter in 20 years, don't get too pissed off over something someone said, especially on the internet, where most people are anonymous, most of the time.

My counselor taught me that when I was going to him back in the mid-80's.

Except, I want to point out that the freepers at Free Republic were also saying something very similar to what you said when they were discussing the soldiers that were being killed in Iraq in 2004 during the Presidential campaign - they claimed that the number of soldiers that had been killed in Iraq were less than the number of people killed with guns in Detroit over the previous period of time.

It wasn't true, but they said it anyway.

I think it is disgusting and beneath comtempt for someone who would take the time to go out of their way to make a claim, however pointless, that this woman's death did not occur in a battle zone, but then maybe you thought it was important to point out.

I don't see much of a difference, myself. A lot of the soldiers that were killed in Iraq were killed in humvee rollovers and for anyone to go on-line and claim that their deaths could have occurred just as easily elsewhere is a form of denial that I do not suffer from.

But, then again I did have a lot of counselling several years ago.