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“How The Hell Did These People Get In Our Army?”(Michael Gaddy, The Price of Liberty, 5/14/2004)
Senator Campbell may be sincere when he wonders how some folks who torture prisoners in Iraq got into the Army, but it is not a mystery to many of us. Perhaps if he were aware of this TRUE story that happened to a senior training NCO in Arizona, he might better be able to answer his own question. This NCO had a higher than acceptable “washout” rate of his trainees. An officer admonished him that this rate was unacceptable, as too many soldiers were being lost-especially after all the money and time that was being spent on recruiting. No matter how he tried to explain this to the officer, he could not get across the point that many of the trainees were just not good enough to do the job that would be required of them. Finally, in desperation, he asked the officer if he would interview one of his remaining “problem” soldiers himself. The officer agreed. The NCO brought in a young soldier and asked him, in front of the officer, what he wanted to be when he left the Army. The soldier said he wanted to work for NASA. The officer was impressed until the NCO asked him to tell the officer what he wanted to do at NASA. The young man said that he wanted to "do the countdown” and proceeded to count backwards from the number 10 to show his expertise. Now, can anyone wonder why we have soldiers who are stupid enough to engage in acts of torture and wanton sex acts with prisoners and photograph themselves doing it?

******An old adage comes to mind: "What goes 'round, comes 'round ******

posted by A Curmudgeon 3:50 PM