[TADSLOS]

The last straw for Heldt, who works in the Army's finance unit, came earlier this month when the Army extended his year-long "boots on ground" tour of duty another 90 days, through the June 30 transfer of power deadline in Iraq.

Spoken like a true Army combat financier.

Translation: "I was forced to stay in Baghdad another 90 days living in relative comfort filling out finance forms and pulling guard duty on the ramp at Baghdad International Airport, all while forced to eat three hot meals a day served up by contractors. I couldn't come up with a better way to bitch about my personal plight, so I decided to whine about body armor and not enough armored HUUMVs. I just mailed off my own set of expos'e photos to Hackworth concerning the lack of concern by our leaders regarding combat duty related paper cuts, in order to make more out of my bitch than is warranted."

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Before Algore invented the Internet, the disaffected snail mailed their congressman when they wanted to put a turd in the punch bowl. Now they email their hometown newspaper.

The other side has some extraordinarily skilled INFOWARRIORS.

[kms61]

Not everybody in the Finance Corps sits behind a desk. I have a cousin who was in Afghanistan last year. His job was to go around with a pistol in his shoulder holster and a briefcase with a half million bucks or so handcuffed to his wrist, and pay off various tribal leaders, contractors, etc. Pretty wild stuff. I doubt they covered that in his MOS school :-)