Posted on 05/26/2004 1:58:20 PM PDT by 68skylark
"filthy showers", I believe that is an oxymoron.
"unprotected tents and using filthy showers"
They have showers??? Damn! High living! What the heck is a "protected" tent vs an "unprotected" tent?
Protected has a rubber?
Bear in mind that this is the AP talking - slanted to present poor-planning horrid-things "Oh-we-shouldn't-be-there-in-the-first-place" Leftie BS.
Units just getting in country are not going to be in the palaces, for a bit. I'd also venture this: 1st AD took the palaces, so I'm not going to begrudge my active brothers the spoils of war.
"nowhere to seek shelter "
They don't know how to dig a foxhole?
Our guys are in unprotected quarters? Well, gee, Associated Press, go ahead and call in their coordinates for the enemy while you're at it, jerks.
and kerry and rest of the rats want to send more troops over there to live?? in tents.
"They have showers??? Damn! High living! What the heck is a "protected" tent vs an "unprotected" tent? "
Unprotected tents have gun inside...Protected tents have a gun outside!
Ya know, I'd have to say that maybe all this time spent bitching about "no protection" would have been better spent constructing bunkers? I mean, those few have all that time to complain...
If the showers are filthy, then some lucky privates should be granted the priviledge of cleaning them.
My son with the 1st ID wrote this morning from near Samarra ... "the heat is beginning to raise steadily, its been in the mid-100's all week, and due to keep raising."
No one news story should be given too much weight. I agree with that.
But I've seen dozens of stories saying that Guard units get sub-standard equipment. Just a week ago a New York Guard unit suffered many casualties (including one KIA) while patrolling in the unarmored 5-ton trucks -- the most vulnerable of all vehicles. Remember the Illinois Guard helicopters flying without missle-defense gear? There have been lot of other reports of Vietnam-era flack jackets, substandard food, and substandard medical care for wounded at stateside bases, etc.
A Guard unit near me, the 1-293d infantry, returned with lots of stories like that.
Did the AP print a map as well?
Here is an idea to try. Scrounge the materials and build your own fighting bunkers and mortar bunkers. Would you rather whimper and get your assets blown off than to show some initative.
Thank goodness the media decided to publish the location, just in case any rebels or their leftist/media cheerleaders weren't yet aware. < / sarcasm >
Exactly what I thought. At least they have guns. Glad to hear it.
You make a good point.
or pay some Seabees to do it. We accept cash, food, porn, and alcohol.
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