Army Times is owned by the Gannett group which everyone knows is anti Bush
I didn't know this. Thanks.
I haven't heard a single Reed-resident say otherwise on any other media outlet...so at this point...the story is likely to be 90 percent true. Those guys affected by the inspection rule....likely are the ones with not-so-severe wounds. I can't see how they could come around to some dude's bunk whose lost a leg or arm...and play this hokey game. And the inspectors? Can you put yourself into this position...having to mess with a guy who just came out of a combat zone? I spent 22 years in the military and I personally couldn't stand there and act like an inspector around a bunch of hero's like this. This would be like some members of the "300" at the battle of Thermopylae...surviving...and making their way back to Sparta and having some political flunky there treat them as simple foot soldiers when they were the hero's of the battle. King Leonidas would have pulled his sword from his side and put the tip to the inspector and asked if he felt the room was "of a fine nature for a warrior and hero to lay upon and have his wounds attended to". We might want to ask of the Reed leadership...how they'd like to treat hero's of a Republic and see if they understand the basis of the question.