Psychoblues
12-18-2007, 08:01 PM
It's a tough article and well worth your reading.
By Greg Mitchell
Published: December 16, 2007 8:20 PM ET
NEW YORK While violence is down in Iraq, Americans continue to die and fall badly wounded, and suffer severe stress and trauma caused by 15-month tours of duty. A remarkable article on Friday in the Army Times is titled: "Not us. We’re not going: Soldiers in 2nd Platoon, Charlie 1-26 stage a ‘mutiny’ that pulls the unit apart."
Here are two excerpts. The first describes only one of several incidents that drove many soldiers to "stand down." The second looks at how some responded. The entire lengthy piece by staff writer Kelly Kennedy can be found at:
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/12/bloodbrothers3/
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Lt. Col. John Reynolds replaced Lt. Col. Eric Schacht as battalion commander July 8. Schacht left after his son died of a heart condition in Germany, the same day Charlie Company lost five men in the Bradley. Even with the high operations tempo and the loss of so many men, Reynolds called the changeover “easy.”
“It was the best transition you could get,” he said...............
Much More: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003686058&imw=Y
Several links there for you to follow to get an honest picture of the dilemma in which we subject our beloved "troops". Where's the love?
By Greg Mitchell
Published: December 16, 2007 8:20 PM ET
NEW YORK While violence is down in Iraq, Americans continue to die and fall badly wounded, and suffer severe stress and trauma caused by 15-month tours of duty. A remarkable article on Friday in the Army Times is titled: "Not us. We’re not going: Soldiers in 2nd Platoon, Charlie 1-26 stage a ‘mutiny’ that pulls the unit apart."
Here are two excerpts. The first describes only one of several incidents that drove many soldiers to "stand down." The second looks at how some responded. The entire lengthy piece by staff writer Kelly Kennedy can be found at:
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/12/bloodbrothers3/
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Lt. Col. John Reynolds replaced Lt. Col. Eric Schacht as battalion commander July 8. Schacht left after his son died of a heart condition in Germany, the same day Charlie Company lost five men in the Bradley. Even with the high operations tempo and the loss of so many men, Reynolds called the changeover “easy.”
“It was the best transition you could get,” he said...............
Much More: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003686058&imw=Y
Several links there for you to follow to get an honest picture of the dilemma in which we subject our beloved "troops". Where's the love?