Shooting Blanks posted:

Gotta admit one thing about that dude, she's unlikely to ever cheat on him.

`Nemesis posted:

Casimir Radon posted:

His name was Defense Support Party or something like that, and he posted about nuclear detection and sensor operating. He got in trouble, got put on anti-depressants, and tried to kill himself. Can't recall if he succeeded later or not.

Scratch Monkey posted:

Oops

Wild T posted:

You don't have to worry about a moostache when she's 12.

Casimir Radon posted:

Some of us were recently at a bar during our TDY and some Russians, a guy and two girls, sit down next to us. This dumbass TSgt from the other wing that came with us just starts blabbing our whole story to these guys without any prompting at all. Told them what state we're from, what base we're staying at, what we're doing there, when we're leaving, etc.

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He said he first met Huber-Brown at the residence of Slater Brown’s father. He was age 17 and she was 28. Their romance ignited almost immediately, he said.
He said when he joined the Marines, he named his rifle “Becc.”
While Sikes was in boot camp, he and Huber-Brown exchanged numerous letters, and on one occasion she said she wanted her husband “out of her life.” He said he asked if she meant murder, and she said “if that’s what it takes.”
He returned home from his Marine station in Hawaii on April 5, 2008, arriving in New Orleans at about 5 p.m.
Shortly after arriving home, he attended a family crawfish boil. According to testimony, Slater Brown knew of the relationship between his wife and Sikes, and their may have been a brief argument at the crawfish boil.
Brown’s father, Bill Brown, had taken Sikes into the Brown household when he was about age 15 because of friction between Sikes and his father.
Asked by Weilbaecher why he told a television interviewer that he had served a tour in Iraq, Sikes said quickly and calmly, “I lied.”
While under questioning from Weilbaecher, Sikes seemed to have a quick grasp of facts and dates, but under cross examination, he seemed less sure of himself.
Goodwin told Sikes he was testifying against Huber-Brown because if she were convicted, he could claim “prosecutorial misconduct” during his trial and possibly get leniency. Sikes did not deny Goodwin’s assertion.
“You led inmates (at Angola) to believe you are a war hero so you could manipulate the system,” Goodwin told Sikes.
Testimony by Det. Mike Dean Sr. of the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office was important for the prosecution. Dean said he knew Slater Brown, and had coached him in little league baseball when Sikes was a youngster.
Dean said the investigation into Slater Brown’s murder never really ended, even after Sikes’ conviction. But it was necessary for Sikes to exhaust all of his appeals before the investigation could continue on active status.
Dean said he and Det. Mike Christmas went to Angola to interview Sikes in May, 2012. During the interview, Sikes said Slater Brown had a life insurance policy in Huber-Brown’s name.
He said that during the investigation immediately after the murder, there were no red marks or bruises on Huber-Brown’s arms to indicate she had been dragged out of bed prior to or after the shooting.
Mindy Brown testified that her brother told her he did not come home to kill Slater Brown. She said Sikes had spoken to her about possibly trying to get his sentence reduced, but she said he knows he will be in prison “a long time.”
It was Hunter Brown who gave Sikes the rifle as a gift that was later used to kill his brother.
Based on testimony from Sikes, Dean and Williams, Sikes went to his sister’s house the night of April 9, 2008. Later that night, he drove his sister’s pickup truck to the mobile home of Slater and Becc Huber-Brown on South Lewiston Road, arriving at about 11:30 p.m.
He drove the truck to the rear of the mobile home and got out with the rifle. Huber-Brown was reportedly waiting to open the door because it made a scraping noise when being opened and would have possibly awakened Slater Brown.
According to testimony, Brown had a hearing impediment and wore hearing aids, but the noise from the door might have awakened him.
The matter of why the dog was not awakened was never answered. It was suggested that the dog knew Huber-Brown, and was not aroused by her being up.
Sikes said he asked Huber-Brown at the door if she wanted to “go through with it.” She said yes. He said he asked her if she were sure, and she again said yes.
They walked to the bedroom and Sikes stood at the foot of the bed. He said Becc Huber-Brown was to his left.
According to Williams, Sikes told her when she was preparing his defense that the plan was to shoot Brown and then he and Becc would take the truck and get out of the state.
Sikes said he leveled the rifle and fired the first shot. The blast was so loud, combined with the muzzle flash, that Huber-Brown became hysterical. He said he bolted another round into the rifle chamber and fired again.
Because of Huber-Brown’s hysteria, he said he went out the front door, ran to the back door, closed it then kicked it in to make it appear that a break-in had occurred.
He took the pickup truck and went to a friend’s house and told him that he had murdered Salter Brown. His friend told him to leave, that he did not want him, Sikes, around his wife and children.
Sikes said he tried to call Huber-Brown to find out what she wanted to do because it was her plan, but he couldn’t reach her.
He eventually called sheriff’s deputies and was picked up at a bridge on a road leading to Osyka, Miss.

Casimir Radon posted:

Some of us were recently at a bar during our TDY and some Russians, a guy and two girls, sit down next to us. This dumbass TSgt from the other wing that came with us just starts blabbing our whole story to these guys without any prompting at all. Told them what state we're from, what base we're staying at, what we're doing there, when we're leaving, etc.

chemosh6969 posted:

I'm sure he already told whatever prostitute, at whatever brothel he was at, all the juicy details and she's already reported it back to headquarters.

I'm also sure his wife has already told whatever dude that face fucks her whenever her husband is TDY all the juicy details and he's already reported it back to headquarters.

50 Foot Ant posted:

Dudes from O-W-M were ALWAYS the loving weirdos.

50 Foot Ant posted:

Nowadays?

Hell, it's always been like that. The South and Midwest were always just Good Ol' Boys servin' in the military like Gramps and Pa did.

Dudes from O-W-M were ALWAYS the loving weirdos.

not caring here posted:

Biggest dickheads from Pennsylvania.

FAT SLAMPIG posted:

Weirdest people I met were from Michigan.

Always the UP.

Mike-o posted:

seriously everybody from PA go gently caress yourselves. every single person i knew in the army from there was a cocksucking human being. NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR lovely GARBAGEPILE OF A STATE.

Arishtat posted:

They don't call it Pennsatucky for nothing. All two of the decent guys I worked with from PA were both from Philly. The rest were pretty far down on the white trash spectrum.

50 Foot Ant posted:

Getting out like a pro.

Of course, the VA will say: Pre-existing condition.

MA-Horus posted:

I can confirm that Reading, PA is pointless except for Tastykake. That poo poo owns.

Admiral Bosch posted:

i was born, raised, and still somehow loving live in eastern north carolina, two hours from jacksonville one way and two hours from fayetteville the other

gently caress all of you, i have it the worst, there are boot fuckheads in my town every weekend