On the shooting in North Carolina, there're local stories that the soldiers and the civilian with them were not totally engaged in the training plan. That while the locals are accustomed to the military running operations in the area, there is also a long tradition of the soldiers and civilians engaging in illicit activities common around the world. Cover stories, mil and civil, are ready at hand to explain the times the fuck-offs are discovered, or more precisely, fail to make arrangements with local fuzz to overlook the vile behavior, ranging from sex to drugs to booze to whatever rules breakers find immorally uplifting.
Cops, like soldiers, have expenses to cover, too, and a sure fire way to get keep the baksheesh flowing is to pop a double-crossing customer, or what is called an innocent. Whether the soldiers were set up by the civilian and the cop is worth a Deliverance type story, or the soldiers and the civilian were truly hunting the cop to teach him a lesson in locale rules. Now don't try to tell me any of these folks were innocent, or I'll have to burn your pigwipe flag, confederate. Expect a Marine to shoot a civilian, accidentally, to show how mean and lean the pussies are when finished with an innocent morale booster demanding a fee.
