Jessica: Army used me

NY Daily News ^ | November 7, 2003 | CORKY SIEMASZKO

[HairOfTheDog]

All soldier face great torturous unknowns in war and in capture. All of them know that. Or should. Not just the women.

[presidio9]

They are in Hillary's pocket.

MUST.... BLACK OUT.... HORRIFYING.... MENTAL IMAGE....

[Killborn]

Emotions. That's what libs are all about and that's how they advanced their BS.

More emotion than substance.

[joesbucks]

Mule Fritters. Too many Pentagon and military brass were on the news shows when this was going on. They let it stand. Period.

[Ispy4u]

Thanks for the ping.

Boy that Jessie Lynch is a real piece of work.

[spunkets]

"Doesn't that point to more of a mistake by the military and not her own?"

Both.

" Not that I expect 0% accidents during a war, but there were some definate errors made in planning out a (relatively) untrained maintenance group driving around in a hostile area for so long."

There should have been at least a sarg who could read a map and compass. I don't know the details of the story-haven't followed it. As far as planning goes it doesn't amount to much. They got lost. They should have immediately reoriented when they determined they were out of radio contact, or hadn't reached their objective yet. Maybe they did reorient and sarg led them futher astray.

PFC Lynch wasn't responsible for the overall screwup. She does have a sarg for a fiance(husband?) and lots of military friends. She should at least speak w/o trashing, or allowing the military to be trashed by such leftist enemies. IOWs, even though she's ~20, she should think first before opening her mouth.

[dmz]

and they renamed Squaw Peak (offensive, apparently) in the Phoenix area to Piestewa Peak earlier this year for her.

[Killborn]

I've been thinking..

What if her rifle is jammed coz in her excitement she accidentally safed it?

[wardaddy]

Good post.

[joesbucks]

Yes there were brave men and women in this entire saga. Say she was a coward? I never implied that. It appears he weapon was not operative. Does that imply being a coward? There's a great leap even if they find out she froze from being a coward.

The military liked this story. They let it stand.

[#3Fan]

I never used the word "liar" and neither did spunkets.

You must not have seen post #114.

I spent 22 years in the military and carried an M-16 for nine years, so I'm not exactly a novice. I've seen people under stress forget to pull the charging handle, fire all the rounds without realizing they pulled the trigger, eject the magazine without realizing it, etc. Although a weapon can misfeed when the charging handle is initially released, it is rare. I never experienced it and have fired tens of thousands of rounds through the M-16. When this happens it should be relatively easy to clear if the person has the minimum training. I think that people are falsly blaming the M-16 when the problem was either very poor maintenance or lack of training.

I didn't say they were blaming the gun, I said there are some people that have a lot of experience with it that said they can indeed jam before firing in dusty conditions. Saying it can happen and saying it did happen are two different things.

[Huck]

Look at how this story is developing.

[WackyKat]

I've seen people under stress forget to pull the charging handle, fire all the rounds without realizing they pulled the trigger, eject the magazine without realizing it, etc.

Exactly right. I think, in her panic, she either forgot to take off the safety or never had a round chambered in the first place.

[Stewart_B]

From what I understand the humvee she was in wrecked. Wonder if maybe just maybe her weapon was damaged in the wreck?
I would be more apt to believe this than that she was just a lame who didnt maitain her weapon.

[Killborn]

Feminazis do this to defame the military and make it look bad so that when it is disbanded, no one will be left in the way for Global Socialism.

See my post 157.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Jessica: "Army used me"

I don't think she really knows who is using who here. It seems she was out of it for the whole time her story was being told and there were people saying that maybe the "Rambo" story was not exactly true. She and her family need to go back over all the propaganda from all sides before they start the movie. Now that she is well, she can tell her story but it seems important parts are still missing. It is quite possible that the wreak that caused her legs and back to be broken also damaged her weapon. We'll most likely never know unless she can face the memories and then tell her story and have it told countless times on TV. She did enlist in the Army but not for this kind of parade. The media are the ones who made this a circus.

[Sloth]

Of course she was used. That's what she signed up for.

[joesbucks]

The pentagon never tried to downplay it. And the theatrics of the rescue aspects have been already addressed even by the Dr. how tipped off the US as to where she was. That part of the saga was filmed by the military, not the media making it up. That was footage supplied by the military.

Every person whether under fire or in the rescue attempt is a brave individual. But the story under their bravery is trumped to a point and the military is complicit.

[Petronski]

I expect her not to publicly bash the Army for promoting the very incident from which she is now profiting.

Perfect.

[Huck]

Are there transcripts of Pentagon/Centcom briefings where we have on-the-record accounts of Army/Pentagon officials saying that Jessica Lynch went down fighting?

I would like that too. I remember the big announcement....didn't it come at like 4am? What was the date? There ought to be excerpts at least.