Posted on 10/11/2013 5:36:57 PM PDT by fso301
The Department of Defense unit charged with recovering servicemembers remains abroad has been holding phony arrival ceremonies for seven years, with an honor guard carrying flag-draped coffins off of a cargo plane as though they held the remains returning that day from old battlefields.
The Pentagon acknowledged Wednesday that no honored dead were in fact arriving, and that the planes used in the ceremonies often couldnt even fly, and were towed into position. The story was first reported on nbcnews.com.
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I suspect this is a way for someone in the Pentagon to fraudulently spent tax money and get a warm and fuzzy from grateful taxpayers. It also closes some books with our former enemies who are now our friends. This is a scam similar to the disappearance of our gold in Fort Knox. The gubermint ordered some Tungsten bars 15 years ago from a tungsten supplier. The bars were then plated with gold and put into certain stockpiles. The real gold was sold to China and Britain. All our gold is now gone.
Jeepers... Thanks for the ping!
Can we even be sure that the men dressed in uniforms are soldiers?
What if they are all a bunch of anti-military leftists playing the part to throw the wool over everyone’s eyes?
That was going on under the Clintons. Don't know if they started it, don't know if they finished the job.
Reads like someone overdosed on war propaganda...Who woulda thunk they’d creep this low? These deceitful SOB’s are depraved...using our fallen for propaganda? Are you kidding me? Really?
So, they can do all this for show, but couldn’t set aside a few buck instead, to pay for broadcasting sports events to serving troops?
Do I have to question EVERYTHING the government says about anything at all? How far back?
Is General Grant really interred in Grant’s Tomb? Are there any remains in the Tomb of The Unknowns? Is Obama really fully vetted and qualified to be President?
Once broken trust is hard to ever regain.
This or maybe they got extra pay for participating in this bogus ceremony
I don’t see anything really wrong with this. Don’t the fallen deserve the recognition, no matter how much after the fact?
I can’t imagine anyone is ever going to dig up these containers to recheck identities and even if they did.....well it’s normal for an error to be made and differences of opinion and...and ...and...
When teams scour a WWII airplane crash site high on a New Guinea mountainside, finding just dog tags and personal items may be sufficient evidence of servicemen's death at that location that such personal items along with a scoop of soil from the site may be treated as remains for ceremonial purposes. I don't think many would have a problem with that.
However, when digging around a WWII battlefield in Europe and a few bones are found, who is to say without DNA evidence who the bones belonged to, or if they even are from a WWII casualty?
Worst is the fear that teams go out, explore remote parts of the world, find nothing but return and conduct a ceremony for a serviceman whose name can now be struck from the roles of the missing.
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