The army report found that white enlisted men in Wildflecken, Germany, have formed a hate group called “F – the Niggers.” At Fort Carson, Colo., active-duty soldiers have joined skinhead groups, and some are suspected of selling stolen military weapons to local extremists. Two soldiers in Orlando, Fla., have also been linked to a local neo-Nazi group, “Florida Corps Skins.”
Police in Fayetteville arrested three soldiers from the 82d Airborne in last week’s shooting. Classified as a hate crime, the incident was described by police as a random attack by Pvt. Malcolm Wright, 21, and Pvt. James Norman Burmeister II, 20. Both have been charged with murder. A third soldier, Spec. Randy Lee Meadows Jr., 21, was charged with conspiracy to commit murder when investigators determined that he had been driving the car.
Police reportedly found a Nazi flag, hate literature and a bomb-making manual in an off-post mobile home rented by Burmeister. Investigators said the suspects appeared to be members of the local white-supremacist group “Special Forces Underground.”
Army spokesman James Hill said, “I have seen nothing to indicate we have a significant problem. If there is, something will have to be done about it.”
