Eskimos Face Hard Times After Iraq Call-up

Yahoo! News ^ | June 19 | Mary Pemberton

[Gunny P]

if it's the Alaska Scouts (207th IG)of the Alaska NG, they are reputed to be better than pretty good. Exchanging snow for sand, these guys will do equally well.
Any Ruushun crosser's are glad they're deployed.
Turn up any A/C..

[armydawg1]

I think the original writer agrees with you, he is just saying that the media is just trying to turn over another rock to find problems with the war effort.

Of course Alaskans have to sacrifice, everyone else did too and will continue to do so. But with the wacked out media being all about "ME", sacrifice for your country is a term they can not grasp at all.

[RoadTest]

Good article of a subject well worth mentioning. Thank you for it.

[ImpBill]

Excellent point. Unfortunately, some of the readership here will not get it. We, of the Republic, are apparently too far down the road that public education brought us down, for even the readership at sites like this, to read the real story between the lines of the dweeb who wrote it and her agenda.

The "first immigrants" to this continent have been some of the most patriotic sons and daughters to serve in the military during times of crises.

Oh that it was a "right of passage" for all who enjoy the freedom's secured by those who serve and have servered.

[ImpBill]

"He said, `Don't show no fear, don't be scared. They're like dogs, they pick up your scent and take advantage of your fear,'" Brown said.

He could well be talking about the reporters in the MSM as well as Polar Bears.

[JCEccles]

This is called "reaching" for a story.

The MSM war against the War on Terror has gone beyond farce. The MSM has become a parody of itself.

[usmcobra]

Oh come on now, this is ridiculous.

Eskimos hunters would leave their families and hunt whales for months, now those same families can't even get fresh water without them,

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

I did 11B basic and AIT at Fort Jackson, SC starting in June 1987. We started out with over a dozen true Eskimos in our company. We finished at the end of August with three left. The heat was nothing to me, since I live in lovely southern Louisiana, but to them, it was almost a killer.

I don't find anything funny about this story, because you should be using these guys to fill positions in cold climes, not throwing them into Iraq in the middle of summer. Like you said, they're great guys, and I'd fight next to any of them, but this is a perfect example of bureaucracy trampling on common sense.

PS: every single one of the guys that didn't make it was discharged for a heat related medical reason.

[jazusamo]

Like you said, they're great guys, and I'd fight next to any of them, but this is a perfect example of bureaucracy trampling on common sense.

Exactly right. I was at Ft. Ord in '59 and they had a terrible time because of the climate. You would think that by '87 the powers that be could have figured out that you can't take someone that's lived their life in below zero weather and put them in a hot climate to train them where much of the schedule is based on physical endurance.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

AMEN!!! I can only wonder what the wunderkinds at the MEPS station were thinking when they assigned them to a Southern military base in the heat of Summer.