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I mean... this guy was possibly a suicide bomber.

I don't think there would be concerns over what happened if he got into a fender bender on the way there.

I wouldn't trust a cyber truck to even blow up correctly.

Further, nobody willingly leaves the military at 19 years. 20 years and you get retirement pay for the rest of your life--19 gets you nothing.

Maybe he had a medical retirement, which is fully possible for any number of reasons, but...

Probably he did something egregious to get kicked out at 19 years. Leaders will often let servicemembers near 20 years retire when they're guilty of wrongdoing (in consideration of the many years served beforehand). To cut short a retirement career is to make an example of a person for doing something awful.

Edit: He was still active duty and stationed in Germany, making my whole comment moot. My bad. That's what I get for not reading the article before commenting ¯_(ツ)_/¯

One of the Trump stories I re-post all the time is how he had a lottery where the top prize was dinner with him at the White House. They ran the lottery for months and there was never a single winner.

I once got a reply from a MAGoo saying that this was no different than when another pol sends an email asking you personally to contribute.

I really think so.

If your only aim is that the explosion looks impressive then he made a perfect bomb.

As others have said: This was likely more about making a statement and getting attention than causing damage.

That said, it is well worth looking into the training of even "tier 1 operator" special forces. Unless their job is bomb defusal they aren't actually learning all that much. Here is some det cord and some plastic explosives. Here is a bunch of math to figure out how much you use of each and for liability purposes you'll need to get a passing grade on the written test. But the reality is that here are the common doors and walls you'll encounter and how much to use and in what shape. And if you are using this in a situation where you don't intend to murder everything on the other side? Get a professional to do it.

So it is very much possible that someone who was "an expert" on blowing out locks and even knocking holes in walls would have absolutely no idea how to make a proper car IED without having access to artillery shells and the like.

One way to think of it is that somebody could be the best F1 driver on the planet and even be able to articulate that they need the camber on their left front wing changed or whatever. But if you gave them a beat up 98 Camry that was misaligned and veered to the left? They would be just as lost as a kid who barely passed driver's ed.

Right, but I wasn't claiming that he wasn't seeking to spread terror for his cause, assuming that these are the facts. I'm remarking on the fact that the “big” Trump supporter and a highly trained Green Beret wasn't immediately branded a terrorist by the media just like the NO guy was, despite committing an act that was, as far as I can tell, an act of terrorism. Is it only "terrorism" if you're motivated by some kind of religious belief, and specifically, some kind of Islamic group's belief?

Yup, could be a veterans thing. Both these terrorists served at Fort Bragg.