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Many times. The funniest in retrospect was when I was in the military. I was a commander straight out of university, so young, 22 years old. One of my guys, a private, was on another military installation near our post shopping at their exchange as it was much larger than ours. Leaving the parking lot, a woman made an illegal turn in front of him and he flipped her off (failing to see the two bright shiny stars under the officer’s sticker on the windshield).Fast forward a couple of days. I get an incident report from the MPs on the other post telling me all about the nefarious flipping-the-bird private. When you got these as a commander back then, you decided what action should be taken with said individual, fill out the action taken, sign and send it back to the MPs.So I look into the guy's record, as short as it was, and see he has been an exemplary soldier except for the terrible action of flipping off a bad driver on a different post. One of the many things I could do was counsel him, which I felt was more than adequate for the infraction. Talk to the soldier, tell him not to do it again, and fill out the form and fax it back to the MPs.About an hour later I get a call from a very angry two-star general who is the base commander at the other post. He informed me that the bad driver who got flipped off was his wife. He felt I should have courtmartialled the soldier, and he told me he “commands” me to.Even at 22, I was a smart-ass. I let the general rant for awhile and then informed him, I do not report to him, he is not in my chain of command, and my superiors leave punishment up to the unit commander. I went on to tell him, perhaps if his wife were a better driver, she wouldn't get flipped off by 18-year-old privates. I let him know my troop had never done anything else wrong, and counseling him was the only punishment he would receive and hung up the phone.About 10 minutes later, the four-star general I reported to came all the way across post and into my office. Closed the door behind him and burst out laughing. When he stopped, he asked if I had really told the base commander that his wife should be a better driver. I confirmed and he laughed even harder. He gave me huge kudos for standing up for my troop and always had my back.

There is no consistency among agencies is naming report forms. Usually an incident Report (also known as an Assignment report in many agencies) simply record calls of a non-criminal nature (suspicious persons, disturbances, etc.). It is by the term police report you mean something along the lines of an “Offense Report” such as any crimes against property or crimes against persons have occurred. This would also include “inchoate” crimes which are preparatory in nature. There are exceptions of course, but the key point of the answer is there are several types of reports the police use and how they are named and what they are named are generally is responsibility of the agency that uses that form.

In the US in the 20th century there have been two occasions when US troops attacked US civilians. There are many other cases when US troops have faced US civilians but did not attack them.On 28 July 1932 at 4:45 p.m., commanded by General Douglas MacArthur, the 12th Infantry Regiment, Fort Howard, Maryland, and the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, supported by six M1917 light tanks commanded by Maj. George S. Patton, formed in Pennsylvania Avenue while thousands of civil service employees left work to line the street and watch. The Bonus Marchers, believing the troops were marching in their honor, cheered the troops until Patton ordered the cavalry to charge them, which prompted the spectators to yell, "Shame! Shame!"Shacks that members of the Bonus Army erected on the Anacostia Flats burning after its confrontation with the army.After the cavalry charged, the infantry, with fixed bayonets and tear gas (adamsite, an arsenical vomiting agent) entered the camps, evicting veterans, families, and camp followers. The veterans fled across the Anacostia River to their largest camp, and Hoover ordered the assault stopped. MacArthur chose to ignore the president and ordered a new attack, claiming that the Bonus March was an attempt to overthrow the US government; 55 veterans were injured and 135 arrested.A veteran's wife miscarried. When 12-week-old Bernard Myers died in the hospital after being caught in the tear gas attack, a government investigation reported he died of enteritis, and a hospital spokesman said the tear gas "didn't do it any good."During the military operation, Major Dwight D. Eisenhower, later the 34th president of the United States, served as one of MacArthur's junior aides. Believing it wrong for the Army's highest-ranking officer to lead an action against fellow American war veterans, he strongly advised MacArthur against taking any public role: "I told that dumb son-of-a-bitch not to go down there," he said later. "I told him it was no place for the Chief of Staff."Despite his misgivings, Eisenhower later wrote the Army's official incident report that endorsed MacArthur's conduct.However, the defeat of the "Bonus Army" while unpopular with the American people at large, did make MacArthur into the hero of the more right-wing elements in the Republican Party who believed that the general had saved America from a communist revolution in 1932.The Kent State shootings were the shootings on May 4, 1970, of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.US military aircraft were used as spotters in the “Battle of Blair Mountain” in 1921.I am not aware of any incident were US soldiers were ordered to attack US civilians and refused.