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"Harry Hope" |
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27 May 2004 12:04:40 AM |
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National Guard soldiers living in unprotected tents at Iraq base |
From The Army Times, 5/27/04:
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-213101-2952565.php
Guard soldiers living in unprotected tents at Iraq base
Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. --
Regular Army soldiers in Iraq sleep in fortified accommodations while
National Guard troops are in unprotected tents and using filthy
showers, according to e-mail messages from several North Carolina
soldiers.
Staff Sgt. Roosevelt McPherson, of Raeford, said in a series of e-mail
messages from Forward Operating Base McKenzie, near Samarra, that the
National Guard soldiers have nowhere to seek shelter from almost daily
mortar attacks, The News & Observer reported Wednesday.
McPherson serves in the Monroe-based B Battery, 1st Battalion, 113th
Field Artillery Regiment.
"The regular Army troops have bunkers, hangars or fortified connexes,"
he wrote.
"It is only by the grace and mercy of God that no one has been injured
or even worse."
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Hey, Bush, ya listenin'?
Harry
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| User: "john grove" |
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| Title: Re: National Guard soldiers living in unprotected tents at Iraq base |
29 May 2004 11:30:19 AM |
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Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message news:<rmtab01f0b9pa30qv7i3cq5qggl47gf1a6@4ax.com>...
From The Army Times, 5/27/04:
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-213101-2952565.php
Guard soldiers living in unprotected tents at Iraq base
Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. --
Regular Army soldiers in Iraq sleep in fortified accommodations while
National Guard troops are in unprotected tents and using filthy
showers, according to e-mail messages from several North Carolina
soldiers.
Staff Sgt. Roosevelt McPherson, of Raeford, said in a series of e-mail
messages from Forward Operating Base McKenzie, near Samarra, that the
National Guard soldiers have nowhere to seek shelter from almost daily
mortar attacks, The News & Observer reported Wednesday.
McPherson serves in the Monroe-based B Battery, 1st Battalion, 113th
Field Artillery Regiment.
"The regular Army troops have bunkers, hangars or fortified connexes,"
he wrote.
"It is only by the grace and mercy of God that no one has been injured
or even worse."
And they have guardsmen driving unarmored HUMVEES escorting convoys of
ARMORED humvees (on flatbed trucks) being delivered from Kuwait to iraq.
Only a Limbecile could plan like this.
JG
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Hey, Bush, ya listenin'?
Harry
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| User: "g" |
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| Title: Re: National Guard soldiers living in unprotected tents at Iraq base |
29 May 2004 01:37:16 PM |
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In article <ab67fbc2.0405290830.5f809dd9@posting.google.com>,
(john grove) wrote:
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:<rmtab01f0b9pa30qv7i3cq5qggl47gf1a6@4ax.com>...
From The Army Times, 5/27/04:
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-213101-2952565.php
Guard soldiers living in unprotected tents at Iraq base
Associated Press
and this;
News > May 18, 2004
The first signs of uranium sickness surface in troops returning from
Iraq -- By Frida Berrigan
It's a year into the occupation and U.S. troops are being killed at a
rate of more than four a day. These deaths from roadside bombs,
suicide attackers, anti-U.S. militia and mobs of angry civilians make
headlines. More quietly, American soldiers also are beginning to
suffer injuries from a silent and pernicious weapon material of U.S.
origin—depleted uranium (DU).
When a DU shell hits its target, it burns, losing anywhere from 40
percent to 70 percent of its mass and dispersing a fine toxic
radioactive dust that can be carried long distances by winds or
absorbed into the soil and groundwater. The U.S. Army and Air Force
have fired 127 tons of DU munitions in Iraq in the last year, says
Michael Kilpatrick, the Pentagon’s director of the Deployment Health
Support Directorate.
At the beginning of April—the deadliest month of the war and
occupation so far—a New York Daily News investigation found that four
National Guardsmen have been contaminated by radioactive dust.
The men were part of the 442nd Military Police Company based in
Orangeburg, New York, which went to Iraq last summer to guard convoys
and prisons and train the new Iraqi police. While the whole company is
due back in the United States by the end of April, a number of
soldiers were sent home early, suffering from persistent headaches and
fatigue, nausea and dizziness, joint pain and excessive urination.
They sought medical attention and testing from the Army but were
ignored. Nine of the returned soldiers, frustrated with this
treatment, sought independent testing and examination from a uranium
expert contracted by the New York Daily News. The independent expert’s
tests showed four of the soldiers had high levels of depleted uranium
in their systems. <snip>
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/depleted_morality/
- Do the republicans give two shits about our soldiers?
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| User: "Miles Long" |
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| Title: Re: National Guard soldiers living in unprotected tents at Iraq base |
29 May 2004 12:42:27 PM |
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john grove wrote:
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message news:<rmtab01f0b9pa30qv7i3cq5qggl47gf1a6@4ax.com>...
From The Army Times, 5/27/04:
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-213101-2952565.php
Guard soldiers living in unprotected tents at Iraq base
Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. --
Regular Army soldiers in Iraq sleep in fortified accommodations while
National Guard troops are in unprotected tents and using filthy
showers, according to e-mail messages from several North Carolina
soldiers.
Staff Sgt. Roosevelt McPherson, of Raeford, said in a series of e-mail
messages from Forward Operating Base McKenzie, near Samarra, that the
National Guard soldiers have nowhere to seek shelter from almost daily
mortar attacks, The News & Observer reported Wednesday.
McPherson serves in the Monroe-based B Battery, 1st Battalion, 113th
Field Artillery Regiment.
"The regular Army troops have bunkers, hangars or fortified connexes,"
he wrote.
"It is only by the grace and mercy of God that no one has been injured
or even worse."
And they have guardsmen driving unarmored HUMVEES escorting convoys of
ARMORED humvees (on flatbed trucks) being delivered from Kuwait to iraq.
Only a Limbecile could plan like this.
JG
Not to mention the Army is holding up 1000 vests that the soldiers could
use to line the floors of the unarmored HVs.
Miles "Height of Incompetence, AND Stupidity" Long
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Hey, Bush, ya listenin'?
Harry
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| User: "Fredric L. Rice" |
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| Title: Re: National Guard soldiers living in unprotected tents at Iraq base |
27 May 2004 09:01:50 PM |
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Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From The Army Times, 5/27/04:
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-213101-2952565.php
Guard soldiers living in unprotected tents at Iraq base
Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. --
Regular Army soldiers in Iraq sleep in fortified accommodations while
National Guard troops are in unprotected tents and using filthy
showers, according to e-mail messages from several North Carolina
soldiers.
<laughing> Too cool. The cannon fodder don't need baths anyway
and I would expect given the fact that Republicanism holds sway
that an inordinant percentage of the unprotected fodder are black
or Hispanic.
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