Ask (military)
Ask ( German , chips' ) means the US - military jargon the deliberate killing of members of their own troops in the war.
The origin of the term lies in the time of the Vietnam War . Fragging described the intentional killing of a mostly incompetent perceived and unpopular manager with the help of a splinter grenade (Engl. Fragmentation grenade or just frag-grenade or question ) that was thrown at night or during an attack in a tent or a trench. It was then officially alleged that the victim died from enemy fire. This was justified as a last resort to protect a unit from a superior who endangered his subordinates through incompetence or arrogance.
A hand grenade was the method of choice, as neither fingerprints nor a ballistic test that could have exposed the perpetrator is possible.
Fragging came up repeatedly during the Vietnam War. In the Iraq war, there are only two officially recorded cases; the deaths of Phillip Esposito and Louis Allen and the Frag incident in Kuwait by Hasan K. Akbar in April 2005.
More than 800 murders of US officers by subordinates have been documented, at least 1,400 other deaths remain unexplained.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ www.yawiki.org ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. "(US military slang) deliberately to kill (a member of one's own unit) with a fragmentation grenade"
- ↑ www.iath.virginia.edu "the assassination of an officer by his own troops, usually be a grenade"
- ↑ Hearing starts for soldier accused of fragging in Iraq - News - Stripes
- ↑ Army Soldier Is Convicted In Attack on Fellow Troops (washingtonpost.com)
- ^ Levy, Guenter: America in Vietnam. Ed .: Oxford University Press. 1st edition. New York April 1992, p. 560 .
