misadventure ?

[mcgrunt]

I have ran across this phrase in a Vietnam KIA before . I did not know the individual and was not present . But what does ground, hostile, misadventure mean ?

[Stick]

Supposedly meas that they went someplace that they weren't told to go but mostly means that the person in charge of the one that was KIA is trying to C his own A.

[SEATJERKER]

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...John,...

...I realy don't know where you "meant for that comment to land', or it's intention, however, distant from the actual meaning of it,...

...If you look on "The Wall", there is a man there that is named Harold R. Simonds Jr., and was my X's cousin who was KIA in Quang Nam, I'm sure the families of those lost would take exception to your presumption of them being in the wrong place, and just covering their a$$,...

...

[lcpd24]

I asked my spiecal forces bud, he says they used it a few times, misadventure or
Short Round - an artillery round that falls short of the target on the Gun Target Line

[mcgrunt]

Thanks guys .

That is the type of combat death I don't pass on to relatives.