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Chuck Hagel warns: Troops are ‘close to the breaking point’
Politico ^
| 23 Jul 13
| PHILIP EWING
Posted on 07/23/2013 9:20:54 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned on Monday that U.S. troops are close to the breaking point, after many deployments and Congress risks worsening the situation if it doesnt help the Pentagon with its budget.
Our people are strong and resilient after 12 years of war, but they are under stress and so are the institutions that support them, Hagel told the Veterans of Foreign Wars at the groups annual convention in Louisville, Ky.
Last week at Fort Braggs Soldier and Family Assistance Center, I met a first sergeant who told me that in Afghanistan, he froze up and became overwhelmed by anxiety. He couldnt command. He had lost his ability to command, Hagel said. I asked him how many deployments he had. He told me he was on his fifth consecutive combat tour when this happened. When you push human beings this hard, they break. Some people have been pushed beyond the breaking point.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
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To: CitizenUSA; SkyPilot
There was a time when the military wasnt spread all over the globe on one deployment after another. Well.... someone's got to protect the ASSETS and INVESTMENTS of the RULING OLIGARCHY.
It's so 'nice' of us 'capitalists' to protect the 'wealth' of the 'socialists'.
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posted on
07/23/2013 10:04:41 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(The monsters are due on Maple Street)
To: SkyPilot
Don’t confuse the issue with facts. Congress is busy getting ready to spend millions to arm Al-Qaida in Syria.
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posted on
07/23/2013 10:10:59 AM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: Venturer
I would be more angry/depressed about leaving my family and seeing friends die for ungrateful savages. Let the Islamic filth kill each other.
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posted on
07/23/2013 10:18:22 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: SkyPilot
Sign up more perverts.When they're not in the sick bay with their latest flareup of AIDS they can be in Afghanistan telling the jihadis just how evil infidels really are.
To: Cyber Liberty
Those are safe mentions in my opinion.
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posted on
07/23/2013 10:30:54 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Kill the bill... Begin enforcing our current laws, signed by President Ronald Reagan.)
To: Venturer
My point exactly, even if the wording is slightly different.
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posted on
07/23/2013 10:34:44 AM PDT
by
Jack Hammer
(American)
To: Lakeshark
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posted on
07/23/2013 10:35:34 AM PDT
by
Jack Hammer
(American)
To: 0.E.O
I refer you to several earlier responses to my point.
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posted on
07/23/2013 10:37:35 AM PDT
by
Jack Hammer
(American)
To: DoughtyOne
Its all about the coming Debt Ceiling fight. All owebama’s minions are posturing for the cameras.
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posted on
07/23/2013 10:43:29 AM PDT
by
subterfuge
(CBS NBC ABC FOX AP-- all no different than Pravda.)
To: SkyPilot
Bring all the troops home now.
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posted on
07/23/2013 10:44:13 AM PDT
by
subterfuge
(CBS NBC ABC FOX AP-- all no different than Pravda.)
To: subterfuge
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posted on
07/23/2013 10:51:32 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Kill the bill... Begin enforcing our current laws, signed by President Ronald Reagan.)
To: SkyPilot
As long as the military is funding Gay Pride events, housing for perverted faggot-couples, and indoctrination-style diversity training, I have no interest in funding them a single penny more.
Save money? Bring the troops home from those Muslim hellholes, and let the Islamic bastards go back to killing each other.
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posted on
07/23/2013 10:57:27 AM PDT
by
greene66
To: SkyPilot
The incompetent SecDef Chuck Hagel isn't part of the solution, Chuckie is part of the problem.
To: Dead Corpse
There is more than a little bit of truth in that part about fighting a war, fighting to win. To do that you have to make the enemy wish he had never been born. This PC stuff can get you elected, but there is no such thing as a PC war.
If we had taken a few lessons from WWII our guys would be home and the bad guys would be putting their country back together.
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posted on
07/23/2013 11:36:42 AM PDT
by
ANGGAPO
(Layte Gulf Beach Club)
To: SkyPilot
The troops aren’t broken...they are demoralized by YOU and the worst effin POS POTUS in US history.
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posted on
07/23/2013 11:38:35 AM PDT
by
ThomasMore
(Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
To: SkyPilot
Im’a wonder if mass murderer Major Hassan the Ft Hood jihadist is getting furloughed?
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posted on
07/23/2013 11:45:04 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
To: CitizenUSA
Desert Storm started it, and its been going on ever since. Our countrys leaders have forgotten the purpose behind having a big stick. Carry a big stick so you WONT have to use it. Democrat administrations in particular seem to think the military is just another tool in the toolbox, so why not use it, eh? Well, theyre using it up, wearing it out, and NOT paying to maintain it.
That is so true that it hurts. Let the rest of the world fight it's own battles, just keep away from the USA.
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posted on
07/23/2013 11:45:27 AM PDT
by
ANGGAPO
(Layte Gulf Beach Club)
To: SkyPilot
Can we get our troops to do here what the Army did in Egypt ? Pretty please ?
To: ANGGAPO
Carry a big stick so you WONT have to use it. Democrat administrations in particular seem to think the military is just another tool in the toolbox, so why not use it, eh? Nancy Pelosi herself has said exactly that.
"We have the best military in the world. What's the point of having it if you don't use it?"
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posted on
07/23/2013 12:24:24 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARAD in the past.E)
To: SkyPilot
the idiots who run this country. now Kerry is off to shove “peace” down Israel’s throat.
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posted on
07/23/2013 1:16:03 PM PDT
by
farsny
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