I don’t get the point about getting rid of first-run movies. I mean, they are not getting rid of the theater, they just don’t want the first run movies. But they still have to bring in movies. While this could save AAFES and MWR a few bucks in royalties, I do not see how any money saved could impact local combat ops.
A warzone??? Couldn’t tell that from the ROE. More like a police beat and they just banned the donut shop.
But they WILL put in a sushi bar ;)
These services are available at the big bases to troops who are out in the isolated outposts for days and weeks at a time. To remove them completely is disgusting.
Who is the highest serving member of this Administration who actually served in the military? In a war zone? How many in this Administration every served at all? How many were active in ‘peace’ organizations?
i don't disagree with the sentiment that you're showing, but there are some realities that you're not aware of.
My boy was in Afghanistan from March 07 to March 08 with 2/506, fourth brigade 101st Airborne. He was in a rifle platoon stationed in Eastern Paktika Province about 800 meters from the South Warziristan Pakistani border region.
His unit couldn't get basic equipment such as gun oil and cleaning solvent for their weapons. i know: we sent the stuff to him regularly.
When he was rotating home, i had an IM conversation with him. He was at Bagram AFB at the time, and scared out of his wits...they'd taken his rifle and grenades away from him, and he felt naked. He was telling me that he really wanted to hurt some people because the REMF's were b!tching about their favorite ice cream flavor being unavailable while his unit had trouble being supplied in WATER, which was heavily rationed. This was true at both his platoon COP, and the Company FOB.
The logistics of Operation Enduring Freedom suck! Remember, Afghanistan is a land-locked nation, so resupply by sea is pretty much out of the question.
75% of the material is flown into Pakistan and brought by land along the Khyber pass. It makes a very tempting target for the Taliban. The Khyber pass is some of the most fought over piece of real estate in history.
The remaining 25% of material comes across Russian Air Space (with their permission of course) to...until recently Uzbekistan, another former Soviet Republic that ends in "stan", and has their own Islamowacko problems.
We now have an increase of 35,000 combat troops -about 1 1/2 divisions- and the increase demand for war material that will result from that build up.
The airlift capacity for these non-essential materials simply does not exist.
You want the troops supported, make sure that they have the material to COMPLETE.THE.MISSION. The rest of the $#!t can wait.
Having said that, if I had a Mickey D's down the road after a fire fight, I might have forgiven Jimmah Carter for his transgression.
'Might," being the operative word.
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One in eight are on mood changing medications....look for that to increase. Being a target with rigid instructions about shooting back after-the-fact of being fired upon....is stressful. Better a Whopper and a DQ than a prozac.
Hall is clearly little more than a lickspittle mouthpiece for the generals back home who have political and promotion aspirations vis a vis the Obama administration.
Obama sspends money like a drunken sailor then cuts simple things that cost nearly nothing. Didn’t we have an article on FR recently that the Muslims complained about these American eateries?
IIRC, those “non-essentials” are there to reduce the effect of post-traumatic stress (aka “combat fatigue”) on our troops. And, if understand some of the stuff I have read, it works.
The troops aren’t that important when you have to fund socialism.