Reply #19: It IS a form letter

[MADem]

You can find a version of it in every personnel manual for every branch of service. The lawyers will tell you, if you are a supervisor of the deceased or in command, to be VERY careful in writing to the families, thus the form letter was developed.

Here's a sample--I grabbed the html version for those who do not have ADOBE http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:lPQgLKdb88UJ:https://134.11.61.26/CD8/Publications/FORSCOM/FORSCOM%2520HQ%2520Memo/FORSCOM%2520HQ%2520Memo%2520600-8-1%252020020801.pdf+military+condolence+letter+personnel&hl=en

I am troubled by the number of curious deaths that have been reported out of Iraq this time around. I know how I have conducted preliminary investigations in the past, and it seems to me these PIO's are not even looking at the autopsy reports, or something more nefarious is happening. In any event, it dishonors the rest of the personnel in uniform when this sort of shit happens.