Soldier Joshua Hunter Captured After Stabbing 2 Servicemen to Death

Thank you president warmonger Bush. ANother young man harmed by your Iraq War!!!

This young man needs help. He must not be thrown aside like a piece of trash, but mentored and helped before others ruin his life.

To Johnson:

I don't think you should be so quick to blame Bush and the war on this guy's decision to murder two of his friends. Even if he suffered from PTSD, he was what? 20 years old? So that means that he joined the military (probably at will) when he knew the war had been in full effect for years. There are plenty of good citizens that have served in the military, fought in wars, and witnessed traumatic sights that did not go out and kill their friends. There are plenty of good citizens that suffer from PTSD that have not killed their friends. He may very well need help, but that doesn't justify murder, nor does it state that the fault is on Bush and the war.

TWISTED!!!! THIS GUY NEEDS MAJOR HELP. I AGREE WITH JOHNSON QUOTED:
"This young man needs help. He must not be thrown aside like a piece of trash, but mentored and helped before others ruin his life"

MAYBE THIS YOUNG MAN IS DEPRESSED. I THINK BEING IN IRAQ TURNED HIM OUT. HE SHOULD EVALUATE BE4 THEY TRY TO DO ANYTHING ELSE.

You know, instead of commenting on the story, Johnson, you have to go and blame Bush. I am so sick of people blaming Bush! He did what Clinton failed to do, he stood up and fought back. While these terrorist were gettin stronger, Clinton was gettin blow jobs.

My first presidential vote was for Bush's second term and I never regretted it, unlike many who seem to be regretting voting for Obama, including my little brother. Yea true, Bush might not have been the greatest at making speeches, but I judge my president more on what he does, than what he says. Look at what Obama's whole campaign was about: Change. Yea, I'm loving his change. He wants the goverment to have control over insurance at the cost of billions of dollars that we don't have! I am one of the millions without health insurance, but I do not agree with this new policy. I hope for all our sakes it doesn't pass, especially considering how many people DON'T want it. Now to me that's clear that Obama doesn't care what WE want, just what HE wants.

I find it funny that when Pearl Harbor happened the majority of people in this country stood up and fought back. But yet when 9/11 happened, people didn't want to go to war. Was it not the same? Both were acts of terrorism, so why should one have been more heart breaking than the other?

I agree with concerned, he was 20, so its safe to say that he knew all about the war,unless he lived under a rock, and that if he ENLISTED (cause last I knew there wasn't a draft) there would be a good chance he would be sent overseas.

Quit blaming Bush for some people's actions. He didn't force him to kill his friends.

I WANT TO GIVE MY CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES INVOLVED IN THIS TRAGIC EVENT. I PERSONALLY KNOW PART OF JOSHUA'S FAMILY AND I WILL BE PRAYING FOR THEM.

This kid is another punk that slips through the system and into the military, he is not a product of Bush or the GWOT, nor is he a reprsentative of the professionals in the U.S. Army. He is a product of the American Society and the low moral and low values based mindset of most people in the states today.

Sorry to say put there are punks all over the Army just like this that don't get caught til they do something like this, or drug deals, or Ft Hood incidents, or sell ammo.

But yet most of the american public let the few represent us all even the quiet professionals that allow them to live the lives they lead.

I am an American Soldier.

I am a Warrior and a member of a team. I serve the people of the United States and live the Army Values.

I will always place the mission first.

I will never accept defeat.

I will never quit.

I will never leave a fallen comrade.

I am disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills. I always maintain my arms, my equipment and myself.

I am an expert and I am a professional.

I stand ready to deploy, engage, and destroy the enemies of the United States of America in close combat.

I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.

I am an American Soldier.

What is funny about those who are so quick to bash Bush for the wars is this: (and I hate that we are in Iraq and Afghanistan and do NOT want to see us now enter Iran or any other damn country)

Obama PROMISED to get ALL troops out of Iraq by March 2009. That promise was made before the election.

Today he is planning on ADDITIONAL troops for both campaigns...

Focus on the here and now, folks... not a failed President from days gone by.

I served with SPC Hunter in Iraq. I was reassigned to 3rd Brigade with SPC hunter when we were redeployed to Ft. Drum. I'm sorry, but we saw no combat, dead bodies or anything of the sort during our tour.

As a matter of fact, the most traumatic experience he has dealt with is finding out his wife cheated on him. This behavior continued even after he returned. His jealousy drove him to begin accusing his best friends and roommates of seducing his wife. You know the ending.

The truth will come out. Do not feel sorry for this scumbag.

WTF and Soldier,

Thank you. I know enough of us don't say it as much as we should. There are some of us that do still respect and appreciate you.

Thank you for all that you do and have sacrificed for us.

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!!!!WTF and Soldier, first, thank you for literally everything. May you be graced with every blessing, strength, power, victory and increasing peace.

No one is harder on their own than our military when a soldier betrays the principles of not only the warrior ethic but that of our citizenship.

If this soldier is proven guilty, then I want the regressive permissives to twist themselves inside out demanding every possible leniency and concession for him as they do for convicted cop killers and terrorists in Gitmo.

And I want to hear Alan Prendergast complain about his prison mistreatment and too lengthy sentence like he did about Tommy Silverstein.

2 Purple Hearts 5 combat deployments for 49 months in afghan and iraq, and this P.O.S. lies about even seeing combat, got a hate dirtbags like this MF'er.

Two MOS's in the Army...Infantry and support...only one has to lie....

"Maj. Fred Harrell, a spokesman for Fort Drum, initially said the Army is looking into Emily Hunter's comments and any other relatives' statements about Hunter's involvement in combat, but said later Friday only that the post is cooperating with the civilian criminal investigation. He declined to say if the Army was investigating."

"Harrell said there were no casualties in Joshua Hunter's unit during the yearlong tour in Iraq."

Okay nothing excuses murder of two innocent people!!! Somebody I know toured Iraq with this idiot. Not only that, they have photos with this fool, who claims that he was having such a hard time. When in these photos Joshua is drinking, partying, and acting silly. He looks nothing like he is having a hard time.

He is only pleading insanity, to NOT take resonpsibilty for his actions. We should show no mercy towards this killer. He needs to put away & maybe he should be put in the Iraq prison, than maybe he will really know what it is like to go insane & be insane.

What a wimp! He's a spineless puke who isn't worth the sweat off my balls.
He's an insecure little jerk who couldn't deal with getting dumped, what a loser wimp!

I went to basic with Hunter. In basic, all he did was mess with people for his own amusement. There was one soldier who he really enjoyed picking on. The soldier in question always wanted to be left alone after training to get his thoughts together and keep his mind calm, and Hunter would always torment him. I stood on the sidelines, refusing to get involved. I should have acknowledged back then that Hunter was not fit to be a soldier. I regret not having that other soldier's back when Hunter kept harassing him...when that soldier reported him, who's to say Hunter wouldn't have killed him in his sleep one night in retaliation? Seeing these murders now, I acknowledge that all of us who trained with him, especially that soldier, are fortunate to have not been victims ourselves.

Most of former D787 are in shock and disbelief, but I myself feel nothing short of pure disgust with this monster. If he gets off on the insanity plea, I will lose faith in the system.

Way I see it, he murdered two US Soldiers during a time of war, and as such, he gave aid to our enemy by reducing our manpower, and therefore, he may as well be guilty of treason. United States Code: Title 18, 2381 states that those guilty of treason "shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States. "

Article 118 of the UCMJ - Murder. Penalties in this case: (1) Article 118(1) or (4) -- death. Mandatory minimum -- imprisonment for life with eligibility for parole.

I have no sympathy for Joshua Hunter. I pray Justice will be served.

I agree with DeltaDawgz, WTF, and Soldier. I Facebook-messaged Mr. Hunter recently and I can say he truly appreciates the support he is getting. May God be with him and his family. Thank you also to our soldiers who have served in our Armed Forces. God Bless you all.

Loyalty
Duty
Respect
Selfless Service
Honor
Integrity
Personal Courage

This man not only cast aside our army core values, but also turned his back on the mission of the Milltary Police Corps, to Assist, Protect, and Defend our brothers and sisters in arms. You turned your back on us, Hunter. DeltaDawgz is right.

Hunter needs no sypathy. Iraq didnt cause this. He is a murderer. im assigned to his old unit that he deployed for 12 months with. not 15. and no one in our battalion saw combat. he is a lying sack of crap and needs to die in prison for what he did

You allway are trying to blame a 3rd party for you actions.Mr hunter is guilty as hell he is in charge of his actions.you notice after a killer does his job,he allway blame the world for it but never himself.if you do not blame Mr hunter for this crime you will be guilty as the crime he commited

Drew, you are damn right. Fuck that asshole; let him rot. Sorry you and Soldier both had to serve with him overseas...DeltaDawgz and I only had the misfortune of 6 months in Basic/AIT with him. I always knew this shitbag would do something to end up in the news...I just never thought he was a killer.

I call for the death penalty, personally.

The guy would have killed if he was or was not a soldier. The story line is not about bush or our president. It is about a nut that killed two good friends.If you want to talk about War, bush and Our President. Btittan attacked Iraq march 20 2003, us came in under bush's orders that he signed. As we all know this is the only way our Great Country will attack and fight to protect. US forces quickly set up prisons in Iraq, where they first held prisoners of war, shortly after March 20, 2009.How could anyone say with half a brain that President Obama has not done what he was going to do in regards to the war. You Soldiors know US can not just walk away. Bush should have never gotten US involved in Iraq. NO weapons President Obama has only been in office for 11 months, lets give him 8 years. It may take that long to clean up this mess.

CORRECTION Britian Sorry

THIS GUY WAS A FREAKIN PUNK. WE NEVER WHAT SO EVER MADE CONTACT AT ALL IN IRAQ. I WAS A DRIVER AND HUNTER WAS IN MY TRUCK, AND WE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING IN IRAQ. THE ONLY THING WE KNOW, IS THAT HIS WIFE WAS A CRACK WHORE, AND ALL SHE DID WAS CHEAT ON HIM. ALL THE OTHER SOLDIERS WENT TO 3RD BRIGADE, AND I WAS NOT THERE WITH THEM, BUT I AM SURE THEY DID ALL THEY COULD TO HELP THIS PIECE OF SHIT. HUNTER YOU GOT WHATS COMING TO YOU, AND I HOPE TO GOD ITS THE WORST THAT ANYONE COULD EVER THINK OF. FOR ONCE I HOPE GOD HAS NO MERCY ON YOUR SOUL BECAUSE YOU MURDERED TWO SOLDIERS WHO WHERE BETTER THAN YOU, AND YOUR WIFE TRIED TO SLEEP WITH, BUT THEY DIDNT WANT TO. YOUR WOURTHLESS, AND NO ONE SHOULD FEEL SORRY FOR WHAT YOU GOT COMING TO YOU. YOUR WIFE EMILY WAS A WHORE, AND SHE WILL ALWAYS BE A WHORE. YOU WILL REALIZE THAT ONCE YOUR IN PRISON LOCKED UP, AND SHE IS OUT DOING THE SAME THING SHE WAS ALWAYS DOING. CHEATING ON YOU YOU SCUMBAG.

I attended Basic Training/AIT with Hunter as well... D787. Just as stated previously above, he always acted up and didn't care to be there.

I am in complete shock and am so upset in regards to all of this. I can not sleep because of this and I don't even know what to say... speechless.

Hey Pfeifer, glad to see you're still kickin!

DeltaDawgz, Hooah!

I UNDERSTAND THAT THIS MAN WAS RAISED IN A CHRISTIAN HOME AND SITUATIONS HAPPENED AND THIS FAMILY MADE CHOICES THAT LEAD THEM AWAY FROM THE lORD. tHIS MAN AND THE FAMILIES OF THE MEN THAT jOSHUA KILLED NEED OUR PRAYERS OF COMFORT, FORGIVENESS, AND LOVE. mAY jOSHUA COME TO ACCEPT THE FULL IMPACT OF HIS ACTIONS AND BOW IN HUMBLENESS OF HEART AND TRUE REPENDTANCE TO THE LORD. lET'S ALL LOOK AROUND US AND SEEK TO BE INVOLVED IN THE LIVES OF THOSE THE LORD BRINGS ONTO OUR PATHS AND SHINE THE LIGHT OF jESUS SOTHAT WE CAN BE LIVING TESTIMONIES OF THE LOVE OF cHRIST. jOSHUA'S REDEMPTION DOESN'T MEAN HE DOESN'T NEED TO PAY A PENALTY FOR HIS ACTIONS, THIS MAN IS TROUBLED OF SPIRIT - BUT WITH THE SOUND MIND OF A FAITHFUL MAN HE CAN BE A 'NEW' CREATION OF THE LORD.

I don't blame Bush, Clinton or any political figure. I lost my son to this punk. He as well as Diego served our country with pride and nothing will bring them back. I pray that justice will be served. Nothing will bring them back. I thank all those who served with them and especially his escort SFC James Morton. A man that made a very difficult time a bit more tolerable. You SFC Morton are a true soldier and a wonderful human being.

Dear MRS, James,
I'm so sorry for your loss. God Bless "Waide and Diego; may God always look over them."

Johnson, please think about what you just said. This had nothing to do with the War. This had everything to do with this kid having issues from his childhood and becoming a habitual liar. And this kid saw zero action or anyone blown up in Iraq. He lied to his parents, wife and friend to get attention. And how do I know this? I've spoken first hand to soldiers that served with him Waide and Diego and all of them said this kid is a liar and saw absolutely no action. And how close did his wife and parents actually know him? Apparently they weren't that close or they might have known this information. Bottom line, this kid is a useless piece of trash who needs to spend the rest of his cowardly and pathetic life in prison. And no, I do not feel empathetic to himself or any member of his family. Their family member is still breathing, mine is not!!!

Sincerely, Waide James' Uncle

tired of Bush bashers, you're an idiot. "I am one of the millions without health insurance, but I do not agree with this new policy." That proves one thing -- that you've been so brainwashed by FOX News that you can't even accept that Obama's health care plan is meant for people exactly like you. You don't want the ability to buy healthcare? Are you freaking nuts? Either that, or you just have no ability to look ahead. You'd rather wait until you get sick or injured and spend the rest of your life in debt? My God, what idiocy.

OH, and to your other moronic point "is there any different?" between Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Um...yes...there was a major difference, which, if you had the ability to think for yourself, you would see. Pearl Harbor was an act of war -- one NATION attacking another NATION. The 9/11 hijackers didn't come from any nation. Most of them came from Saudi Arabia -- a nation that Bush didn't even consider going to war with because of his deep oil connections with the Royal Family. The hijackers were a group of men from different countries trained by an international group to attack us. Not a single one came from Iraq or were trained in Iraq. Most people don't have a problem with the fact that Bush took us to war -- it's that he took us to war with the wrong damned country that should be a problem to any semi-cognizant human being. Dude, don't try to comment on politics anymore. Your inner retard is showing.

Gaggy, you blogged some pretty nasty shit about me on another story. Why, I don't have a clue. You are not a nice person when your making a statement. But you are the first person on this website that shares my political views. Young men and women fighting a war and dying because Bush wanted control of oil that did not belong to us. He starts a war in a country that had no WEAPONS. The Big corp. had Bush in their pocket. He gets the oil, Chevron and the corps.get bigger and they keep funding the republican party.

I know how screwed up piece of shit is hunter. We did 12 months in iraq, he was a roomate with Waide. Everyone treat him like a harmless little boy with a huge ego. No one really cared about his lies. he was he is and he will be a fucking piece of shit.
hunter I wish that you will live forever !!! In pain and shame.
out

Well Posts on here Are Random if you can Prove the claims by all means do so do the American thing do what you know is right be a witness show this man for what he is a killer that cant be fucked up by PTSD or insane from Heavy Action in War! and stop posting about it on the WEB how this young man that was taking the risk like all in our Military do laying down his life if need be or told to is a big pile of shit ((he cant be half bad if he went to Iraq)) and did time for all of us back home I like to think our Military Men and Women are held up in high regards for what they did or just for even chancing risking there all for all of us
they all kill if need be for us remember that! they kill the killers and we say its ok ...

Do I Think He should die ...NO Death with more Death Killing a Killer not the way to deal with it now if he is trying to kill you don't lay down and take it kill him if you have to or you can but for us to kill him we have no right he should be locked up in prison for the rest of his life as should any killer insane or not we cant just let em go can we? very sad for all 3 men and all others involved but I thank the men for Time served and may GOD have - show mercy on all that have to kill or die for others like his son Jesus did for all of us! and the 2 men that died at the hands of friendly fire no matter what the killers motives were or where it took place just thank god he did not kill the 2 men over in Iraq he may have lied and got away with it.

but he did it here at home in the USA so its not ok they did not try to kill him like the enemy in a war would so yes lock him up with all the other baby killers. war makes me sick that's why I'll never go to one unless i have no choice anyone can kill but to give ur life freely so another can live at the brink of death takes a real man. the only ones that see action and make it back home are the ones that are real good at hiding or had many give there lives so they could make it back home and they pay for it sleepless nights faces haunt them in dreams all the PTSD you can think of and most don't make it they kill themselves or live in death drunk or high just hope your family members don't see action at war and do make it home safe!!

P.S. War Wrong or Right Repub or Dem bill or bush you said no I say it was him not them no you boooo fucking hoooo

No War is Right its sad that the world will never see peace there will always be WAR people just like to think there right no one knows best no one or one person or a group of people know how to get rid of killing and war hint hint SIN they just like to try and play god with millions of lives and make you think your freedom is real free is free nothing in this world is free but one thing gods love for his son and us. just a cold fact and by the way our government is fucked up same as any other just a bunch of people on a power trip thinking there god. and no not everyone all over will agree on something like i could say 1 + 1 = 2 to everyone in the world but some way or another a group or a person will say no no that's WRONG!
and fight me to the bitter end on it and that is why our Government does not work its based on everyone agreeing no odd man out before it can move on to the next thing in god we trust my ass America don't trust god they trust the big ass group of people in power here so in our Government we trust. we have to we have no choice they say who lives who dies who is wrong who is right they play god and justify it by saying its what most well we think its most of the American people want we think its most of em so its ok but who cares cuz we don't.. oh nooz have a field day with this dems repubs all babies alike cuz look i just did somin new disagree with all of you

Sorry if I offended any one family members of parties involved in this and I'm sure I did its just bound to happen but I ask you forgive me of it I hope you can and may GOD watch over all parties involved in this mess and deliver us from our evil and sin.

family of the victims I'm very sorry for your loss

Family of the accused I'm very sorry for your loss

Just wanted to let you know that i served with josh hunter in iraq,where we saw NO action so that was bull shit. next i highly doubt that he blacked out like he told his mother, sorry mrs hunter but i knew your son and he was a sick fuck and a drug addict, I also had the opportunity to meet jennifer hunter his sister who was the same as her brother so maybe its the family that should be looked to for blame not the military or the war or whatever else everyone is trying to use as an excuse for his actions. he killed two of the greatest people that i was lucky enough to share a part of my life with, so whatever his sentence is i guarentee it will be way less than he deserves.

First of all i served with this sad excuse of a human being..
HE did NOT see combat...HE MURDERD TWO OF MY BEST FREINDS..His wife cheated on him and he flipped...The truth will come out , Hunter acted on his actions.. and for every action deserves oppsite but equal reaction. ....
He is lieing out of his ass right now trying to claim PTSD....

To WADES and DIEGOS family.. i miss them both dearly ...and iknow that there both watching over all of us.

What a damn asshat.

I don't give a shit whether he went to fight for our country or not, sounds to me like he didn't give a shit about anyone but himself, so who is to say what would have happened had they went to war. Maybe he's the type that would be willing to give up his whole troop just to save his own ass.

Already claiming PTSD when it's obvious he didn't even face any kind of trauma whatsoever while stationed overseas. Another piece of shit wanting to claim insanity instead of taking responsibility for his actions.

By the way, what the hell kind of excuse is PTSD? People are really considering that insanity? Seriously, a person with PTSD still knows right from wrong, and it's highly unlikely that this illness will make you "snap" yourself to murder.

Most times when a murder goes before the court, and they send the person to a mental institution instead of jail, it's the schizophrenia or DID that gets them off.

I honestly think this PTSD crap is being blown way out of proportion. And if you think I have no experience with the illness, it is my main diagnosis, so I know what the hell I'm talking about.

By the way, can you explain to me why the wife said he was outgoing and kind before he left for Iraq, yet his myspace paints him otherwise?

Clearly she was delusional. I honestly think he beat the crap out of her way before he even went overseas.

And of course the mother would think he snapped, because oh no, my son would never do something like this.

Sad part about it, is two honest and loyal soldiers died because this man is nothing more than a piece of garbage. Hunter acted nothing like a soldier, instead, more like a coward.

He beat her the whole time they were married. She may have cheated on him while he was in Iraq, but they weren't married at the time, they had just started dating when Josh left for Iraq. And he didn't really need to worry about her cheating on him, because she never cheated with a guy. She cheated with a woman. She was young and dumb, 17 at the time they started dating, 18 when they got married.

I don't support my sister's actions in any way, but she didn't deserve to be beat. She was faithful to him from the day they got married. I love her, and am happy to see that she is changing her life around, and I wish you would stop posting crap about her that is not true.

God the only positive thing about this whole story is this POS doesn't have kids.

To the families of Waide and Diego, my heart goes out to you and I pray someday you find some measure of peace.

To the families of Hunter, I feel for you as well, but he truly needs to spend the rest of his days in a cell.

The truth about the person who took away our family member will soon come out. There was nothing good about him, never saw action In Iraq, and had an evil history. Two incredible young soldiers left this world while the evil stays! It shall all come out and justice WILL be served!