snuffing the rooster?

[Yoda]

I was listening to alice in chains lately now and I can usaully figure out what they are talking about but I cannot figure out what snuffing the rooster is.

Im an idiot but i gotta know this

[KiwiCoromandel]

" Snuffing the Rooster "....viet nam era army slang meaning : to kill or waste a bigmouth or narc or someone very unpopular for some reason......usually an officer...also used in the same context as " fragging "....Rooster was also a slang term used to describe american soldiers by the viet cong....ie....mercenary, stranger, etc......something to do with the americans landing in viet nam in the year of the Rooster as well....

" Fragging :. When one American killed another American, usually a superior officer or an NCO, the term "fragging" came into use. Although the term simply meant that a fragmentation grenade was used in the murder, it later became an all encompassing term for such an action. It is known that "fraggings" did occur during Vietnam, but the precise number is uncertain.

"During the years of 1969 down to 1973, we have the rise of fragging - that is, shooting or hand-grenading your NCO or your officer who orders you out into the field," says historian Terry Anderson of Texas A & M University. "The US Army itself does not know exactly how many...officers were murdered. But they know at least 600 were murdered, and then they have another 1400 that died mysteriously. Consequently by early 1970, the army [was] at war not with the enemy but with itself.

http://www.kangarooster.com/kangawhoster.html

.....the term is said to have originated in china from the description of an ancient ceremony which involved the snuffing out of sacred or ceremonial candles took place on the 9th day of every month in the chinese year of the rooster.........