From: Wayne Harris (papercu@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Dec 16 2004 - 12:13:05 PST
If I was there I would be the guy striping the parts so I'm all for that.
But there is always more to the story. The Media is inflating the story but
not the way you think. They are saying the soldiers are convicted for
scrounging the parts and while they may have been charge with that too the
bigger charges are theft, destruction of Army property and conspiracy. They
just didn't take some parts they took the trucks, used them and then
"Instead of taking the trucks back to their rightful owners, the first thing
was erasing the identity marks and dumping them off at bases," Lt. Col.
Wicker said. "They destroyed it. They did the enemy's job. ... Those trucks
could be used for other units." And while I don't have all the names, one of
them was the 656th's company commander, Major Cathy Kaus, and the chief
warrant officer, Darrell Birt, two you would think would know better. But
I'm not there and all I know is from reading more that the first paragraph
so there may still be more to come. Wayne
>From: "EUGENE PANTANO" <TRUKS1@msn.com>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: Re: [MV] Military Justice?
>Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:16:08 -0700
>
>
>Let me remind everyone here of something you are missing. There "is" a war
>going on over there. There are young men and women being killed every
>day...
>For what ??? For asking for it.?? For not being able to have their
>equipment in running order.?? For "not asking" some idiot if they could
>remove parts from abandoned vehicles..?? In a combat zone - when a vehicle
>is left un-attended -- IT IS ABANDONED ! Rule number one is to make it
>un-usable ! That means either a THERMITE Grenade , or remove parts from it.
>THAT IS THE RULE !! The problem is - there is far too much publicity there.
>Too many halfwit Officers and "do gooders". Too much NEWS coverage. The war
>needs to be shut off to the Public...only authorized Coverage - and
>censored by the Army and MARINES..No one person doing it..2 to 3 approving
>what goes out. Our troops have got to know we "care" about them. They are
>being treated like criminals.?/ They are told what to do..then when "heat"
>is applied..the Zero's in charge say they did not give the order...???
>What
>the ^%$% is going on over there.?/ It is a war.....!!!!
>Sorry..just a SGM that knows the ropes... Gene
>
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