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Title: Army ordering injured soldiers to Iraq
Post by: togetherwecan on March 12, 2007, 11:49:57 AM
Post by: togetherwecan on March 12, 2007, 11:49:57 AM
The U.S. Army is ordering soldiers at Fort Benning classified as "medically unfit to fight" to war in Iraq, Salon reports, asking aloud if it is an "isolated incident or a trend."
"As the military scrambles to pour more soldiers into Iraq," writes Mark Benjamin for Salon, "a unit of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Ga., is deploying troops with serious injuries and other medical problems, including GIs who doctors have said are medically unfit for battle. Some are too injured to wear their body armor, according to medical records."
Benjamin cites recent cases of troops at Fort Benning whose medical profiles were "downgraded ... without even a medical exam, in order to deploy them to Iraq."
In fact, writes Benjamin, some of the affected soldiers he interviewed "are already gone," with others set to fly to Iraq within a week. 3rd Infantry Division officials, according to Benjamin, deny the claims.
One veterans activist expressed his concerns about the moves involving medically unfit troops and thinks that "the possibility that physical profiles may have been altered improperly has the makings of a scandal," writes Benjamin.
"It smacks of an overstretched military that is in crisis mode to get people onto the battlefield," Benjamin quotes the activist.
Excerpts http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Report_Army_ordering_injured_soldiers_to_0312.html
"As the military scrambles to pour more soldiers into Iraq," writes Mark Benjamin for Salon, "a unit of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Ga., is deploying troops with serious injuries and other medical problems, including GIs who doctors have said are medically unfit for battle. Some are too injured to wear their body armor, according to medical records."
Benjamin cites recent cases of troops at Fort Benning whose medical profiles were "downgraded ... without even a medical exam, in order to deploy them to Iraq."
In fact, writes Benjamin, some of the affected soldiers he interviewed "are already gone," with others set to fly to Iraq within a week. 3rd Infantry Division officials, according to Benjamin, deny the claims.
One veterans activist expressed his concerns about the moves involving medically unfit troops and thinks that "the possibility that physical profiles may have been altered improperly has the makings of a scandal," writes Benjamin.
"It smacks of an overstretched military that is in crisis mode to get people onto the battlefield," Benjamin quotes the activist.
Excerpts http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Report_Army_ordering_injured_soldiers_to_0312.html
Title: Re: Army ordering injured soldiers to Iraq
Post by: ZachP on April 03, 2007, 11:12:46 PM
Post by: ZachP on April 03, 2007, 11:12:46 PM
My grandfather was a T.I in nam and said alot of recruits went off even when they (he) knew and were told by superior officers they may some indescpencies in their actuals.
Title: Re: Army ordering injured soldiers to Iraq
Post by: Attis on April 03, 2007, 11:22:15 PM
Post by: Attis on April 03, 2007, 11:22:15 PM
All the more reason to call for an impeachment of this psycho-nut of a President.
-- Brede
-- Brede
Title: Re: Army ordering injured soldiers to Iraq
Post by: ChildOfTheLight on April 04, 2007, 02:09:09 PM
Post by: ChildOfTheLight on April 04, 2007, 02:09:09 PM
Quote from: Attis on April 03, 2007, 11:22:15 PM
All the more reason to call for an impeachment of this psycho-nut of a President.
-- Brede
Problem is, then we'll get Cheney.
Title: Re: Army ordering injured soldiers to Iraq
Post by: Attis on April 04, 2007, 03:36:28 PM
Post by: Attis on April 04, 2007, 03:36:28 PM
Not if he's one the impeachment orders as well. >:D
-- Brede
-- Brede
Title: Re: Army ordering injured soldiers to Iraq
Post by: ChildOfTheLight on April 04, 2007, 04:45:38 PM
Post by: ChildOfTheLight on April 04, 2007, 04:45:38 PM
Then we get Nancy Pelosi? I don't like where this is going.
Title: Re: Army ordering injured soldiers to Iraq
Post by: rhonda13000 on April 04, 2007, 05:47:28 PM
Post by: rhonda13000 on April 04, 2007, 05:47:28 PM
[anger, disgust]
I was leaving the AF after 23 years anyway, primarily for freedom to transition, but this exemplifies the other reason why it is time to move on to better things and that is the way that they treat people now.
It wasn't always like that; not when I started, not to that degree.
I've had enough of watching people suffer at the behest of a self-serving and callous bureaucracy.
ENOUGH.
I was leaving the AF after 23 years anyway, primarily for freedom to transition, but this exemplifies the other reason why it is time to move on to better things and that is the way that they treat people now.
It wasn't always like that; not when I started, not to that degree.
I've had enough of watching people suffer at the behest of a self-serving and callous bureaucracy.
ENOUGH.