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He wasn't a US Soldier at the moment he pulled those guns
No, he was indeed a US Soldier. That is why he was tried in a US military Court Martial, not in a civilian court. If he was not a "US Soldier", then he would have been tried in a US Federal Court.
And no, the "Pentagon" (actually the Department of Defense) did not change it to "workplace violence". The Court Martial itself classified it as such. Nice try though.
http://tucson.com/news/national/ter...cle_be513c51-a35d-5b4f-b3a0-13654f019ea6.html"They really didn't have an option," says Silliman, director emeritus of Duke University's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security in Durham, N.C. "He was an active-duty officer. The crime occurred on a military installation. … It was obvious he was going to face a court-martial."
Victims of the shooting rampage filed a lawsuit last year over the administration's decision to treat the incident as workplace violence. They say that designation has robbed them of benefits and made them ineligible to receive the Purple Heart, awarded to service members wounded in battle.
Sorry, after having (and still serving) under the UCMJ, your claims hold absolutely no water. Stop looking at this politically and see it for what it actually was. These individuals were not killed by a member of a terrorist organization, they were killed by an individual of questionable mental stability who was wearing the same uniform as they were and simply snapped. And do not even ask me to go into one of the "heroes" who was killed, even though she violated multiple regulations while on deployment.