Military Deaths

Posted here is information on a number of deaths from recent years involving military or former military personnel. Again, some of these may possibly be genuine accidents or have other causes, but I believe most of them need further investigation. Also, as before, I need to make it clear that there are a lot more of these than what is shown.

As you can probably tell, there's some overlap between the various catagories. Finally, the well-known homicide cases of victims Col. Phillip Shue and Heidi Seaman could be included here, but I've decided not do so because there is already a great deal of information about their deaths elsewhere on the web that is easy to locate.

Questions and Answers

Question: What do the following people all have in common?

A law school professor and expert on constitutional and military law and evidence who taught a course on efforts to control domestic criminal activity and international terrorism with Supreme Court Justice Alito overseas last summer

Two brigadier generals (different service branches)

The officer-in-charge of the CENTCOM Intelligence Support Center--New Orleans

A Secret Service agent who works at the White House

A State Department employee

A retired federal Air Force judge who now serves as a local J.P. and attends the same legal conferences in Hawaii that cost former Judge Karl Prohl his job recently

Numerous current students and graduates of the various U.S. military academies

Answer: They are all from local "insider" families in the same small county in Central Texas (see earlier post entitled "Outside, Looking Inside"), and they are just a few examples. [The CENTCOM officer happens to be related to p.i. Ed Hodges of our case, by the way.]

Question: Is this important?

Answer: You betcha'!