Report: Troops to war despite broken leg, torn rotator cuffs

Source: The Associated Press in The Army Times

DENVER — Soldiers who were medically unfit or considered borderline have been sent to the Middle East to meet Army goals for “deployable strength,” The Denver Post reported Thursday.

Quoting internal Army e-mails and a Fort Carson soldier, the newspaper said that more than 50 troops were deployed to Kuwait en route to Iraq while they were still getting medical treatment for various conditions. At least two have been sent home.

Capt. Scot Tebo, the surgeon for Fort Carson’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, wrote in an e-mail obtained by the newspaper that “We have been having issues reaching deployable strength, and thus have been taking along some borderline soldiers who we would otherwise have left behind for continued treatment.”

SNIP

“I’m not going to Iraq not being able to wear any of my gear, not carry a weapon,” he said. “I become a liability to everybody around me because if they get mortared, they’re going to have to look out for me because obviously, I can’t run. I can’t look out for myself. Now I’ve got soldiers worrying about my welfare, instead of their own.”


Read more: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/01/ap_sicktroops_080117/

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Some of these troops are taking strong meds, like morphine, for their debilitating conditions.

God(dess) help them all, because this CIC isn't going to.

You slap a cold mirror on their nose

If it fogs up---

They get Deployed

I mean, that makes every last ounce of their lives beholden to the government of George W. Bush and to the corruption for which he stands. There is no concomitant obligation on the government's part to keep faith with these volunteers, no trust that binds this administration, and no consideration to be given to the broken bodies and minds that are laid down for its bloodthirsty policies.

So you can see why the elites and their children can't quite see their way clear to volunteering for this endless meat grinder and taking some of the pressure off an overstretched military.

Like the famous "Stomach Battalions" of the late war Wehrmacht.

sitting around comparing ailments and living with one anothers' ailments like that? And that's the least of their problems compared to trying to protect themselves under such conditions.

...and then there are stories the editors* don't want you to read.

*censors

the link to the front page:

http://www.armytimes.com/

try here

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thenewbushwhackerbrigade2/message/41250

http://www.armytimes.com/

The article is listed on the front page, and that is the only way to access it. I forgot that the Military Times site works this way.

This is infuriating, it really is.

That Catch-22.

I have a niece in the Army. She hurt her back and can't run PT, but she can deploy.

the army is pretty banged up

Keep sending them back until they finally become martyrs for the country! What a glorious way to die! Woo-hoo!




:sarcasm: