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Fragging was rare among Navy and Air Force personnel, who had less access to grenades and weapons than did soldiers and Marines. [5]: 30–31 The first known incidents of fragging in South Vietnam took place in 1966, but events in 1968 appear to have catalyzed an increase in fragging.
The term fragging emerged during the Vietnam War, when the occurrence of these incidents reached unprecedented numbers and were often committed or attempted using a fragmentation or hand grenade. [5] According to author George Lepre, there were 904 documented or suspected fragging incidents in Vietnam between 1969 and 1972 (see here for more ...
He uses official Army records to report 551 fragging incidents between 1969 and July 1972, but argues this is an obvious under-count as it only included assaults with explosives devices, which failed to include numerous similar deaths by firearms which were more available.
The G.I. movement was the resistance to military involvement in the Vietnam War from active duty soldiers in the United States military. [1] [2] [3] Within the military popular forms of resistance included combat refusals, fragging, and desertion.
In one of the first Fragging incidents of the war, a grenade was thrown into the office of K Company, 9th Marine Regiment, at Quảng Trị Combat Base, killing First Lieutenant Robert T. Rohweller. Private Reginald F. Smith pleaded guilty to the premeditated murder and was sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment; he died in custody on 25 June 1982.
The Pentagon stated that 209 Fragging incidents had occurred in South Vietnam in 1970, up from 96 in 1969. [3]: 369 21 April. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Republican Representative Pete McCloskey said that the Nixon Administration had hidden the extent of U.S. bombing in northern Laos.
That gaiety hides a deeper, lasting pain at losing loved ones in combat. A 2004 study of Vietnam combat veterans by Ilona PIvar, now a psychologist the Department of Veterans Affairs, found that grief over losing a combat buddy was comparable, more than 30 years later, to that of bereaved a spouse whose partner had died in the previous six months.
The controversial U.S casualties during the battle lead to the G.I underground newspaper “G.I says” in Vietnam placing a $10,000 bounty on Honeycutt, leading to multiple unsuccessful fragging attempts against him. [11] [12]