File this under "Betrayal Of Trust 101"
Apr. 2nd, 2004 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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A stretched Pentagon is sending unfit soldiers back to Iraq long before they are ready to serve again.
Let's put this in bold, folks:
The army specialist came within inches of death last November 15, when the Humvee he was driving hit a roadside bomb, killing his sergeant. The entire left side of Gunn's body was splattered with shrapnel, his elbow was shattered and, as he lay in the US military hospital bed in Germany, he was tortured by nightmares.
Late on March 23, Gunn told his mother, Pat, that his commanders were putting pressure on him to return to Iraq, but there was no way he was getting on that plane. A few hours later, he was airborne.
Is THAT what you call supporting the troops? Disgusting doesn't even begin to cover it. There is a special place in hell for the filthy bastards that ordered this.
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A stretched Pentagon is sending unfit soldiers back to Iraq long before they are ready to serve again.
Let's put this in bold, folks:
The army specialist came within inches of death last November 15, when the Humvee he was driving hit a roadside bomb, killing his sergeant. The entire left side of Gunn's body was splattered with shrapnel, his elbow was shattered and, as he lay in the US military hospital bed in Germany, he was tortured by nightmares.
Late on March 23, Gunn told his mother, Pat, that his commanders were putting pressure on him to return to Iraq, but there was no way he was getting on that plane. A few hours later, he was airborne.
Is THAT what you call supporting the troops? Disgusting doesn't even begin to cover it. There is a special place in hell for the filthy bastards that ordered this.
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Date: 2004-04-02 06:15 pm (UTC)And where are the trooper's NCOs? They are supposed to act as the soldiers' advocate, after all. Were I the position of having an inadequetely recovered soldier returned to my unit, I would put him on the plane out myself.
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Date: 2004-04-02 06:50 pm (UTC)There are a great many things the military does that are unconscionable to the public at large. Heck, as a medic, I got to weed out people based upon how serious their wounds were. Soldiers with wounds that in any civilian ER would get them to the front of the line I had to make the choice to set them aside, because it would take to much effort to stabilize them.
The other large problem the military has now is that it's NCO corps is anorexic at best. Fewer NCO's mean more things fall between the cracks, such as this soldier's plight. I can only hope that someone catches him at a battalion aid station and removes him from duty.
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Date: 2004-04-04 11:20 am (UTC)In another circle of friends, we have one person who's an actual Serious Blogger that devotes about 75% of her entries to current events. No one knows how she has the time - we don't, but we do have time to read her. As her husband puts it, "she reads the news so we don't have to".
I think that given the current information overload of today's society, people with the time to be nodes in this way are becoming really important. And really visible.