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I don't know how much of this story is true, but if all of it is then someone made a huge mistake in joining the Army. Lots of folks make bad career choices. Such is life.
I heard a GI complaining today about how his recruiter screwed him - told him "exactly what he needed to hear" to get him into a carer field he didn't want. He's working with satcom now - but he wanted something in combat arms.
Didn't mean to post dawn patrol here. Too many damn windows open
You know the funny thing about the whole "Pentagon Silencing MilBlogs" thing? Nobody actually reads blogs from deployed troops. Check the site meters for any of them and you'll see what I mean. Even funnier, when all the brou-hah-ha was raging, no one, and by that I mean no one, linked or quoted any of them on the issue. (This is because no one actually reads them, including those who were the most outraged about them being "shut down".) The Mrs had a nice collection on the Dawn Patrol the other day, for the 4 or 5 folks who might actually give a damn.
I suppose part of that lack of readers could be due to the folks at milblogging.com ripping off the deployed guys via their rss feeds, but no one reads milblogging.com either.
Shipmates; this has been another one of my days I get in a Strategic Funk. I see the progress at the Tactical and Operational levels working towards what we want Strategically - but one thing keeps coming to mind. It is all for naught if the Political side fails us. Perhaps tomorrow I will feel better, but with the "Two month vacation meets Yankee go home" with the Iraqi Parliament; and the schoolyard games in the US Congress - my mind keeps going to the Table at Damascus.
Someone help a brother out.
They just don't write opinions like this anymore:
Mrs. Bath, known to her intimates as "Grandma", appears, from the record, to be an ancient and repulsive harridan in an advanced stage of senile decay who divided her professional activities, about equally, between whoring on the one hand and pandering for more youthful acquaintances on the other.
UNITED STATES v. PARKS, 19 C.M.R. 935, 936-937 (A.F.C.M.R. 1955)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Democratic-controlled House.(ed strikeouts mine)failed to passdefeated legislation Thursday to require thesurrenderwithdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq within nine months, then pivoted quickly to a fresh challenge of President Bush's handling of the unpopular war.The vote on the nine-month withdrawal measure was 255-171
Yet another "show vote"...this one apparently to appease the Decomcratic "base".
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