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July 07, 2008

CHUD

Greyhawk

From Lt Nixon (fresh back from Iraq): CHUD busters!

I think he's found the perfect name for the group. I've had a few recent run ins with persistent, low-level CHUD myself - more on that to follow. In the meantime, meet the CHUD.

It doesn't rise (or is fall the better term?) to the CHUD level, but I noted a quick (as in within minutes of posting) response to my renlistment video at YouTube below: "Suckers one and all." What's more notable then the sentiment expressed is the speed at which it was posted. As it turns out, the individual who posted it is a subscriber to the MilBlogs YouTube channel, and as such is alerted to any new video posted.

But I also received this response from a mom of one of the guys participating in the ceremony.

Thank you for posting those re-enlisting video's of our servicemen. I am one of those Mom' s that their son was re-enlisting at that location. You gave me a priceless gift, one that I will cherish always. I didn't see him, but you enabled me to attend his second enlistment.

Which immediately launched me on a campaign to get the videos posted everywhere I could, in hopes that more relatives might stumble upon them, and get to participate long distance in the event. (And many thanks to PowerLine*, Hot Air, and BlackFive for doing so.)

However, (no surprise, really) my efforts would also really bring the CHUD out of the woodwork. More to follow...

*****

Footnote - Scott at PowerLine: "By my count via a Google News search, there is a grand total of three or four newspaper stories covering the largest reenlistment ceremony in the history of the American military."

Sheesh. But failure to make goals gets headlines worldwide...

The story continues here.

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