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...qualify him for a course in computer programming that he hoped to take, and he eventually enlisted in the U.S. Army. He served in the 1991 Gulf War as a Bradley fighting vehicle gunner and immediately thereafter volunteered for the Special Forces (Green Beret) qualification course at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. But he didn't make the grade and left the Army in 1ate 1991 with sergeant's rank and an honorable discharge...
Reacting quickly to the shooting death of a black man and woman in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and the arrest of three white Fort Bragg soldiers, two of whom authorities have identified as skinheads, the Army ordered a sweeping investigation into the extent of extremist activities among its troops...
...military bars its troops from actively participating in groups pushing racist or other antisocial aims, but Pentagon officials concede the First Amendment guarantee of free speech and assembly restricts their ability to halt membership in such outfits. Police reportedly found "resistance magazines" among Burmeister's belongings. Fort Bragg is home to the Special Forces Underground, a clandestine group that publishes the Resister, a newsletter that espouses the extreme positions that proliferate among right-wing militias. In a recent policy statement, the Underground announced its opposition to "liberalism, altruism, internationalism, tribalism, democracy ... [and] the ideologies of all tyrannies." The role...
...Fort Bragg's racial problems--and those of the armed forces in general--go beyond this recent incident. Though the Army today is nearly 30% black, overt racism still takes place at some bases, according to a report issued by the House Armed Services Committee last December. Fort Bragg itself has been linked to other violent outbursts. In October an Army sergeant opened fire on colleagues, killing one and injuring 18. In August 1993 a soldier from the post killed four people in a local restaurant. And in 1991 Timothy McVeigh, the chief suspect in last April's bombing...
Military and civilian authorities caution that Fort Bragg, with a population of 75,000, is virtually a small city. Says Major Rivers Johnson Jr., a spokesman for the 82nd Airborne Division: "You've got to understand that the 82nd Airborne is a reflection of society." Referring to the suspects, a local police officer says, "These guys are just idiots...