Posted on May 3, 2020
Fort Carson NCO Shot and Killed by Police in Colorado Springs
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He points a weapon at cops, and gets posthumously promoted???? Not sure i understand that at all, even for possible PTSD...
Fort Carson NCO Shot and Killed by Police in Colorado Springs
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Fort Carson
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I'm going to refrain from forming an opinion either way. The article doesn't give enough details for any definitive conclusions to be made. For all I know, this could be a case of "suicide by cop". Maybe the spouse was the abusive one and wanted to cause trouble with his military career; maybe he was the abuser and saw his career being tanked. We just don't know from the few details of the article. Regardless of what the investigations ultimately conclude, I think talk of posthumous promotion is a bit premature.
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LT Brad McInnis
MSgt Steven Holt, NRP, CCEMT-P Agree with all you say, but why not hold off on the promotion? Why report he will in all probability get posthumously promoted? My feeling is it would be better to promote later once investigation cleared him, then promoting and having to pull it later if he wasn't cleared by investigation.
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MSgt Steven Holt, NRP, CCEMT-P
LT Brad McInnis - I'd wait on the promotion as well. Assuming the investigation falls in favor of the deceased, then the promotion can always be done retroactive (since it would be posthumous in any regard). If it does end up that it was a justified shoot, then the Army would have a lot of explaining to do as to why they rewarded criminal behavior by the aforementioned posthumous promotion.
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Makes no sense to promote him; he was apparently involved in domestic violence
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