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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on February 27, 2020, 12:51:22 pm
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A year after this Marine disappeared on a hike, his family is still unsure what happened
Erika I. Ritchie, The Orange County Register
Feb 25, 2020 4:00 AM EST
Every night, Greg Kraft turns on an electric candle that sits in the window of his family’s Connecticut home.
“I turn it on and I say, ‘God Bless Matt,’ †Kraft said Friday, Feb. 21, his voice choked with emotion. “In the morning I turn it off and say ‘God Bless Matt.’ “
The candle, in the upstairs middle dormer of his Williamsburg Cape Cod-style home, is lighted so his son, Capt. Matthew Kraft, can find his way back.
https://taskandpurpose.com/community/marine-corps-matthew-kraft-disappearance
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He either died on the hike or worse he deserted.
On the eve of deployment to Afghanistan.
This happens every year all over the country.
People go hiking alone in very dangerous conditions.
Many times they have no radio equipment, survival gear, or emergency rations.
Because, you know, nothing could possibly go wrong. Right?
Sometimes they bring kids alone with them.
I will never understand it? Foolish actions = bad rewards.
And this guy was a platoon leader too.