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Originally posted by John D Harris:
About the troops complaining: 1) the news isn't showing many if any troops that don't complain, only or mostly those that do complain.
2)Dishonorable discharge, or we have a perfectly good place in Kansas (Leavenworth, Ks.) where they can spend their days breaking big rocks into little rocks, and their nights glueing the little rocks back together into big rocks.
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Well, look at it from there standpoint. The soldiers who wear the patch that looks like a broken TV screen are from 3 ID. Some of those soldiers have been on the ground for over 1 year. They were told all kinds of neat stuff, to keep their moral up etc. Well the straw that broke the camels back was basically a flat out farce. Men the way back home is through Bagdad, well hell that was over 2 months ago, and they are still there. Don't forget about the workings of the modern Army. Once deployed you are locked. No PCS(Moving), ETS(Getting Out), and promotions don't help much either. Look at the leadership of those units. CPT company commander, CPT XO (should be 1LT)1SG(E-8) as First Sergeant, MSG(E-8) as PSG (should be SFC(E-7)). The right to complain has never been taken away from the soldier. And we ought to be doing a lot of complaining for them at the moment!
Felix