I live about a mile from where the shootings took place. Here are some things we didn’t know at first.
During a Sunday press conference, Rockford, Illinois, Police Department (RPD) Chief Dan O’Shea identified the suspect from a Saturday shooting as 37-year-old Duke Webb, an active-duty soldier in the US Army.
The Army confirmed that Webb has a rank of sergeant first class and was on leave at the time of the shooting. Webb joined the military in 2008 and is currently a Special Forces assistant operations and intelligence sergeant assigned to 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), located at Camp Bull Simons, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.
The obvious question is “WHY?”. He was well trained. Supposedly had his emotions under control. What reason…….?
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In the movie full metal jacket about the vietnam war the drill instructor proudly tells the recruits and draftees “Both lee harvey oswald and charles whitman were marine marksmen. They had to draft people into the marine corp as they couldn’t find enough fools to enlist. I was one of those who had the honor of being drafted into the marine corp even though I tried to tell them I have bronchitis. Fortunately for me I didn’t make it past tear gas drill and was released. I was reclassified 1Y in case the viet cong landed at santa monic beach ;but they never did at least not the communist ones. You join the military so they can kill men, women and children and destroy things.