Mississippi Paper Breaks News of Army Reservists Refusing Dangerous Iraq Mission

AP ^ | October 15, 2004 | AP

[Former Military Chick]

Platoon defies orders in Iraq-Miss. soldier calls home, cites safety concerns

[Servant of the 9]

You just can't let soldiers refuse a legal order in wartime.

Also note that one of the soldiers involved was asking about the penalty for assaulting his CO some time earlier.

SO9

[rocksblues]

Patricia McCook said her husband told her he did not feel comfortable taking his soldiers on another trip

As the story has only been reported from these men/women and their families I will only state the following!

Part of the 20% of our service men that think they will get a better shake from JFnK. LOL!

[Clara Lou]

"They are holding us against our will," McClenny said. "We are now prisoners."
Go figure-- they put you in the brig for disobeying orders. who'da thunk it?

[joesnuffy]

IG should look into their concerns and if their vehicles and security is as bad as they say
its time to relieve some commanders

imo

[Peter vE]

because their vehicles were in poor shape

Wasn't this the equipment they were supposed to get with the $87 Billion Kerry voted against?

[BookaT]

Here is my cut. What if this resupply not getting there endagered others lives. I mean it is WAR. Get in, get going, and if need be ..GET SOME!

Drive the vehicles until they dont go anymore. Then call in for support.

WTF. I guess I should wait for the full story but it dont look good for the soldiers who didn't follow orders

[B4Ranch]

Looking like it's time for a serious investigation starting with the higher ranks, as to just who is not doing their job.

[claudiustg]

Would you want these folks watching your back?

[crazyhorse691]

Military service is not your highschools letterman club. There was a job to do, they refused to do it, and then somebodyelse had to do it. Then they whine that they are prisoners. They will be coming back to the US in a short time for an all expenses paid stay in the luxurious Hotel Leavenworth.

[linda11567]

My husband (my favorite career military person) and I had a long discussion about this and it sounds fishy. When I told him it was reservists he said "what a surprise" He was being sarcastic. And then dismissed it as another reservist gaffe. I'm not being critical of reservists, but almost all problems seems to be with reservists.(Abu ghraib, the pilots who bombed canadian soldiers in an exercise in Afgh.) Lack of training? Why didn't the ranking member take it up the change of command if he was concerned for his troops safety. Did he not know that was proper procedure? did they just flat out refuse a direct order? Hubby said the Army is very careful about that stuff and wouldn't have sent them on a "suicide" mission. I think there may be more to this story.

[oyez]

Never fear U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson(D-MS) is handling this. I suspect another attempted slap at e Bush administration.

[AmarilloMorning]

This is bad news, especially this close to the election. Look for Lurch and the girl to seize on it.

[jwalsh07]

If the order was lawful, then they go to the stockade. End of story.

[oyez]

I think there may be more to this story.

I think is is politically motivated considering Bennie Thompson is on the case. I'd just as soon trust Cynthis McKinna.

[bannedfromdu]

"They knew there was a 99 percent chance they were going to get ambushed or fired at," Hill said her daughter told her. "They would have had no way to fight back."


Sure there is, use your M-16.

[em2vn]

"They are holding us against our will," McClenny said. "We are now prisoners."
This statement from the article is instructive. What does this fellow think happens if one refuses a lawful order? I can't imagine that anyone would expect equipment in a war zone to be in stateside condition.

[ladyinred]

This stinks of politically motivated hijinks to me. The left is pulling out all of the stops.

[chudogg]

Exactly. I bet the unit tries their best at being fair about rotating which unit goes in. And since they refused another unit, probably just getting back has to go back out. If i was in that unit i would be ripping!

I would be even more PO'd if i was the guys out in the field and didn't have any fuel for our vehicles!

[LuigiBasco]

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