The Army is ordering injured troops to go to Iraq

[tompritchett]

Here is the link to the full story:
http://www.salon.com/news/2007/03/11...tml?source=rss

Somehow, I don't think that this story will be picked up by the major media conglomerates. It will be interesting to see if such reports start popping up in Army Times.

[hanktrent]

But it's so cute and always gets a laugh when reenactors say, "All the surgeon cared about was if you had two teeth to bite a cartridge."

Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net

[Trooper Graham]

But it's so cute and always gets a laugh when reenactors say, "All the surgeon cared about was if you had two teeth to bite a cartridge."

Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net

then there was this line you were told before you even got to see a doctor

"take two aspirins and drive on soldier"

[BigDuke634]

Heck, in the Corps, the most our corpsmen ever did was give us Motrin. Broken arm? " Here, have some Motrin"

[sbl]

"major media conglomerates"

Thomas, that would mean FOX and ABC for starters. I stream Air America and I know about the story.

[Brian Wolle]

I'm with you, but I think we're in the minority...

[sbl]

Brian,

Maybe a minority on this forum. The people here are good, decent, thoughtful and patriotic, or else they wouldn't be CW/WBTS reenactors. They may be getting their news from FOX, the big three and their radio and newspaper equivelents. The 24 hour news format carries way too much fluff and scandel for me.

I'm from the Boston area and the two low-power radio affiliates that carried Air American and two other syndicated shows changed to a Spanish Language format.


Good thing there's still NPR with BBC news and the Globe. When I stream Air America on the computer in my basement and I feel like I'm in the resistance!

[HighPrvt]

Army Times article would be titles "Shirkers sent back to Iraq".

I'd like to read something on this that came from a less biased source.

[road_apple1861]

but can we believe this, I for one have never heard of that new's source and if that were true wouldnt CNN of Fox be covering it non stop?





Support our troops!

[toptimlrd]

but can we believe this, I for one have never heard of that new's source and if that were true wouldnt CNN of Fox be covering it non stop?





Support our troops!

I would think so. I am one of those who was discharged at the end of basic training against my desires because of a failing knee (it was right after Desert Storm and I was told by a ranking medical officer they were not to give waivers but to thin as many as they could as we stood down). While processing out I ran into many shirkers who were using minor injuries as excuses to be discharged. I am not saying the people in this particular story are doing the same, but I always eye such stories with more than a small amount of scepticism. I would really like to know the whole story. Like WR Medical Center, there are huge problems in anything the government does but I think we take exceptions and try to make them out to be the norm.

Been there, done that, wish I could go back.