fraggings

Reported "fraggings" - assassination attempts - against unpopular officers or NCOs had risen from 126 in 1969 to 333 in 1971, despite declining troop strength in Vietnam.

Brave New Films blog 2009

The Army alone reported 551 "fraggings" from 1969-1972, with 86 dead and 700 injured.

Bob Ostertag: Death of an American Hero 2009

It is argued that there was only a collapse of civilian support for the war, caused by the liberal press, producing popular disaffection both at home and inside the conscript army, with a breakdown of military discipline, "fraggings" (murders) of aggressive combat leaders, and demoralization in the ranks.

Propeller Most Popular Stories mmrhe 2010

It is argued that there was only a collapse of civilian support for the war, caused by the liberal press, producing popular disaffection both at home and inside the conscript army, with a breakdown of military discipline, "fraggings" (murders) of aggressive combat leaders, and demoralization in the ranks.

Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

Rank lost one privilege that night to our perpetual rage, the kind that would lead a few years later to so many fraggings in Nam.

Reynolds and Me Barry Basden 2012

These numbers include only fraggings with grenades, the weapon of choice since they left no fingerprints.

Bob Ostertag: Death of an American Hero 2009

Congressional hearings on fraggings held in 1973 estimated that roughly 3% of officer and non-com deaths in Vietnam between 1961 and 1972 were a result of fraggings.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Does a Military Court-Martial of Fewer than Six Persons Violate Due Process? 2009

The Pentagon has now disclosed that fraggings in 1970 (209 killings) have more than doubled those of the previous year (96 killings).

The Volokh Conspiracy » Does a Military Court-Martial of Fewer than Six Persons Violate Due Process? 2009

In 1969-70 alone, there were more than 550 fraggings by soldiers, according to one authoritative historian of the Vietnam War.

Tom Hayden on Mark Rudd 2009

Army does not have exact statistics on how many officers were killed in Vietnam in this manner, but in December 1972, the Defense Department acknowledged between 800 and 1,000 actual or suspected fraggings.

OpEdNews - Diary: Slavery and War Destroyed Our Society 2009