Before a dreaded green-on-blue event happened to Greg Buckley Jr., he seemingly had a premonition that something bad was going to take place and that he would not be alive to relay the story. Buckley was an American soldier stationed in Afghanistan. He was training Afghan soldiers in the Garmsir area in 2012 so that he could go home sooner as part of the NATO withdrawal program.
Apparently, one of the trainees seemed to develop a personal problem with Buckley. At one point, the trainee told the soldier to his face that he (Buckley) wasn’t needed in Afghanistan and that he shouldn’t even be there. Greg Buckley confronted the trainee, but the man kept uttering these same words the entire night. The incident led to the two men almost coming to blows. This confrontation was the start of Buckley’s unease.
He allegedly mentioned the incident to his superiors, stating that he strongly felt those who were being trained would eventually turn against the Marines, but this could not be confirmed by news agencies. Shortly after the altercation with the trainee, Buckley was shot dead. He was only 21 years old.
Buckley’s father spoke to journalists after he learned of his son’s death in Afghanistan. He mentioned that his son felt a strong premonition of his own death, and he told his father that if he didn’t come home before November that year, he wouldn’t get home at all. According to Greg Buckley Sr., his son even asked that he prepare his wife and sons for the news that Buckley Jr. had been killed on his own base.
A couple of days after learning the happy news that he could leave Afghanistan early, Greg Buckley Jr. was murdered by a man he had trained. The man who shot him went on to kill two more Marines before being apprehended. The attack happened inside Buckley’s outpost.
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