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This article is a ride and it makes this national guard deployment look even worse.
This whole thing has been a travesty, but then, what else is new with statewide politics in Texas? Abbott is demanding lengthy deployments within a geographically huge state and upending these "part-time" servicemembers' lives, yet somehow also half-assing everything. They have no clear mission. They have no reasonable facilities. They have no productive coordination with federal resources (because this whole thing is an exclusively federal mandate). It's all fucked, because the primary-voting GOP base actively hates brown people and the rest of the party couldn't give a shit about anyone who doesn't vote for them.
What the actual fuck?
Murder/Suicide, right? And the Guard doesn't want to admit the murder part, so Suicide guy just accidentally rammed his Charger into the other person's car at 50 mph in a parking lot.
Found a different story:
A 27-year-old guardsman is driving a Ford F150 just before 2 AM on the highway. The truck rolls over. The 27-year-old passenger guardsman is ejected(?) ("thrown off from the truck"). The driver performs CPR on the passenger unsuccessfully. The driver dies by suicide.
That's wild. There has to be something more to that.
Driver FAFO'ed and offed himself instead of facing the consequences?
That's the only thing that makes sense here.
So most of the reported deaths were suicide? WTF is going on over there!?