fragging
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thumb|M26 grenade|M26 "fragmentation" grenade, issued to the U.S. Army and U.S. Marines in the [[Vietnam War, used in many fragging incidents.]]
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- Motivation
- U.S. Forces in Vietnam
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- Influence
- Coalition forces in Afghanistan
- Notable incidents
- World War II
- Vietnam War (U.S. forces)
- Vietnam War (Australian forces)
- Middle East peacekeeping
- The Troubles
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- Iraq War (U.S. forces)
- Royal Navy
- Russo-Ukrainian War
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thumb|M26 grenade|M26 "fragmentation" grenade, issued to the U.S. Army and U.S. Marines in the [[Vietnam War, used in many fragging incidents.]]
Fragging is the deliberate killing or attempted killing of a soldier, usually a superior, by a fellow soldier. U.S. military personnel coined the word during the Vietnam War, when such killings were most often committed or attempted with a fragmentation grenade, to make it appear that the killing was accidental or during combat with the enemy. The term fragging now encompasses any deliberate killing of military colleagues.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “fragging” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.