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All Soldiers Will Be Fighters in the New Army
NY Times ^ | September 4, 2003 | ERIC SCHMITT

Posted on 09/07/2003 10:44:18 AM PDT by Prodigal Son

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I don't know if you saw any of the footage of the soldiers who were captured in their 'interviews' by al Jazeera. One was asked the question "Why did you come here?" to which the soldier answered "I came here to fix broke stuff". The soldier went on to say "If nobody bothered him, he wouldn't bother anybody".

I don't want to bust on the soldier. Lord knows that was said under duress but I would point out the soldier was male, not female.


Yeah, I remember that very clearly, but I'll bet he had guns as well as that camera pointing at him. I also remember that some of the POWs captured by Iraq during Desert Storm were forced to make on camera statements denouncing the United States. They had clearly been beaten, had black eyes, bruises, etc... The Geneva Conventions aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
61 posted on 09/11/2003 2:56:44 AM PDT by jaykay
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Let's hope this mindset makes it out to ALL services. When I first reported to Navy Boot Camp in 1993, I was apalled that there was NO instruction or training on the M-16 or M-14 service rifles, OR on the shotguns which Navy people are commonly issued when standing watch on board ship.

Instead, we got to fire two whole magazines through M1911's, which were converted to .22! Oh, and your final score was NOT recorded, and you could "opt out" if shooting bothered you (no one did, fortunately).

We were told that if we needed to be armed heavier, we would recieve appropriate training at that time. It was 6 years before I got to qualify on the Beretta pistol (having over 2,000 rounds through my own .45 helped), and TEN before I was trained on the shotgun, with only ten rounds fired. Good thing I grew up bird-hunting.

Two things: Guess who was President then, and could incidents such as the COLE disaster have been prevented?

62 posted on 09/11/2003 3:11:51 AM PDT by Long Cut (Even in Summertime, Iceland is COLD!)
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