I believe this reporter is a patriot, and took extreme means to get knowldege of this deficit in our defense out to the MSM, to SecDef, and to the President. Who can doubt that he has the welfare of this Tennessee unit at heart?
BTW, I have to laugh at those calling Pitts an agent of the mainstream media. The Chattanooga Times Free Press is just about as red state as you can get. It is the antithesis of the New York Times.
Yep, its that leftover election fervor here on freerepublic, burn any messenger that speaks against our Politicians. Yep, that Chattanooga guy just HAS to be a left wing liberal Kerry mouthpiece....
How silly and sad. When the troop asked Rummy the question about why they weren't getting armor, the whole crowd of troops applauded and whooped. As I stated earlier, if Clinton were Prez, the Amored vehicles for our troops would be a major FreeRepublic cause, and Freepers would be absolutely bashing the Secretary of Defense, the Miltary Leadership, and Clinton. But shhh...keep it quite...its Rummy and Bush......let a few troops die needlessly, our politics are at stake....