Ft. Bragg Violence

Fort Bragg, originally established as Camp Bragg, is named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg. It served as an artillery training site in 1918. The camp was also used for infantry and “aeroplane” and balloon spotting training in the last year of World War I. The aviation field was later named Pope Field, named after a lieutenant who died when his airplane crashed.

After World War II the fort became the permanent home of the 82nd Airborne Division. In 1952, the U.S Army Special Operations Command was established at Fort Bragg.

Today Fort Bragg, “The Home of the Airborne and Special Operations,” has approximately 57,000 military personnel and 11,000 civilian employees and is one of the largest military complexes in the world.

With such a large population a certain amount of crime can be anticipated, even expected. Ft. Bragg violent crime has far exceeded expectations. The Army is “investigating.”

OAM sends.

THE FORT BRAGG MURDERS

At least 44 Fort Bragg soldiers died stateside in 2020 — several of them were homicides. Families want answers. But the Army isn’t giving any.
By SETH HARP

Three weeks before Christmas, in the piney woods outside of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, a deer hunter came across the fallout from a firefight that, to date, no one has been able to explain. A tricked-out Chevy Colorado with matte-black wheels and racing tires was stuck in a rut on a dirt road near Lake MacArthur. In the bed of the truck and on the ground beside it were two dead men. Both had been killed by gunshots, and according to news reports, shell casings were scattered on the ground. Yet there were no firearms to be found at the scene, and no trace of the third man, the surviving shooter. There had to have been at least one.

The man on the ground, who had been dropped by a single bullet to the right temple, was 44-year-old Timothy Dumas. People who knew him tell me that in life, he fit a certain kind of American archetype: the wannabe special-forces guy, a fake operator who, in order to impress people or intimidate them, passed himself off as an ex-commando. He had served 19 years in the Army, including time in the 7th Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg, but as a property book officer, a glorified supply sergeant.

The man in the bed of the truck, by contrast, didn’t have to inflate his military credentials. Not only was he a decorated Green Beret with dozens of badges and patches and medals from 14 different deployments, he was also a member of Delta Force, the most elite military unit in the United States. At age 37, William “Billy” Lavigne II was a true Tier 1 operator, a master sergeant on the Army’s most selective and clandestine task force. On top of the sort of training that all Rangers, Green Berets, and Navy SEALs have to go through, he had been schooled in sabotage, demolition, hostage rescue, tactical driving, lockpicking, and spy-trade craft such as how to shadow people, use dead drops, and live under a cover identity.

Yet it looked as if he had been killed in his sleep. A pair of skimpy running shorts known in the Army as ranger panties were all that he was wearing. He had been shot multiple times in the chest, wrapped in a type of nylon blanket that soldiers call a “woobie,” and placed in the back of his own truck, the gray Chevrolet.

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