Of the seven active duty U.S. soldiers that drew international attention three weeks ago with their Op-Ed piece in the New York Times two are now dead and one is in intensive care with a bullet wound to the head.
About Gray: "He was not in any way anti-military," Gray said. "But he wasn't somebody to follow along blindly."
We could use more like him.
When it comes to who you believe about what the military is doing, and how the battle is going, I'd trust a group of NCOs more than a general officer, and the more stars on his shoulders, the less I'd believe. Gen. Petraeus has four, which to me makes him a little less credible than a brigadier. Generals are at such a rarefied altitude that when they actually chat with a grunt, they almost never hear anything in the way of a gripe. The weather is always clear and the morale is always excellent. As for Petraeus' facts and figures, I recall the story of the fellow who'd been in a two person foot race. At the end of the day, when someone asked how he did in the race, he said he had come in second, and his opponent had ended up just barely ahead of the runner at the back of the pack!
And all because they didn't put (OT:) in the header of a political post to an automotice NG...
That joke about death is in very poor taste, 86.
Almost all generals and full colonels are politicians, and Petraeus's recent testimony to Congress proves he's a very political man and not particularly truthful. He even has plans to run for the U.S. presidency in 2012,having said that 2008 is too early.
Another point on Petraeus: He saw no combat duty until 2003, when Iraq was invaded.
Combat duty: The results of mentioning that should be very interesting, if any of the fake "wariers" are around today.
Upon promotion to lieutenant colonel, Petraeus moved from the office of the Chief of Staff to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where he commanded the
101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)'s 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment from 1991-93. As battalion commander of the Iron Rakkasans, he suffered one of the more dramatic incidents in his career when, in 1991, he was accidentally shot in the chest during a live-fire exercise when a soldier tripped and his rifle discharged. He was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, where he was operated on by future Senator Bill Frist. The hospital released him early after he did fifty push ups without resting, just a few days after the accident. [8][9]
Yeah. I know.
But F.H. is always spouting off about everyone else.
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