Just when you thought things couldn't get worse for soldiers serving in Iraq with the lack Armor, Radios, Bullets. Ordering injured soldiers to serve in Iraq. Having the army not equipting soldiers with the best guns in Iraq. Soldiers buying their ownbody armor. Later on they were reimbursed for equipment Purchases.
There is an article by the Pentagon's official news organ, the American Forces Press Service, were Army Col. Martin Schweitzer, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team , is quotted saying that the extension of the the troops tour of duty will actually help them deal with stress.
AFP starts out by saying:
Extended overseas deployments affecting soldiers serving in Afghanistan and other locales overseen by U.S. Central Command should help to alleviate the stress on the Army, a senior U.S. officer in Afghanistan told Pentagon reporters today.
This is what Col. Schweitzer said:
I’m absolutely confident that that’s going to work and that’ll manage the pressure and the stress on the force, Army Col. Martin Schweitzer, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team, said during a satellite-carried news conference.
Noah Shachtman has a good take over at wired's defense blog, danger zone. Link here.
I am not surprised at the statements that were made, just waiting for "liberal" media to pick this up. This just adds another layer of disappointment,anger, disbelief, frustration to my view towards the chain of command and mentality of people in leadership roles.
I mean how many more scandals of corruption, cover ups, and incompetence will then shit hit the fan? Another streak of incompetence is added throughout the administration, justice and defense departments. Where are all these people coming from and how hard is it to get rid of them?
I can complain, bitch and moan all i want, but too many lies are being thrown. Am i seeing things thru different lenses, is the propaganda working on me? Everyone is just in denial or just purposely ignoring the truth since it will bring down their world view that has been built up mostly by the same elements that are involved in creating the mayhem and destruction. What the fuck is wrong with the 28%-33% who support the president and war? What do you see that we can't? What lies won't you believe? What makes you more patriotic by defending those who wanted, created, advocated, underestimated and managed this civil war, this misadventure. Honestly.
Was supposed to remove the html code in the poll, but forget and published it and can't fix it. Tip to Kos and designers, next time have a feature to edit polls that are published by the authors. Below is the pic of rummy.