Posted on 12/20/2007 9:43:14 PM PST by ParsifalCA
If you want the wide-angle-lens view of a conflict, ask the generals. But if you want up-close-and-personal snapshots of war, talk to the street-level NCOs.
Three senior sergeants serving with the 1st Infantry Division's Dragon (4th) Brigade took time away from leading their troops in Baghdad's former badlands to share with their views of where we are in the war - and where we're headed.
First Sgt. Todd Hood is "Top" in the Delta Destroyers of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry; 1st Sgt. Travis Wewers has the Bravo Barracudas of the 4th Brigade's Special Troops Battalion, and Master Sgt. Michael Clauss is the brigade's senior intelligence sergeant - soon to take over the Barracudas from Wewers.
Between them, these veteran soldiers have seen it all. [more@ExileStreet]
(Excerpt) Read more at exilestreet.com ...
A truly great article.
Pity no one will ever see it.
Great piece, thanks for posting.
“The Sergeants’ War”
As a naive, never-served civilian, I’ve said that many of our US
military personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan and in places I’ve never even
heard of...are doing the hardest “police work” in the world.
The best and brightest that America has to offer are being trained right now, in those unheard of places, as the future leaders of our nation. God bless them all. We owe them more than democrats playing politics with their lives.
You want to know what’s what in the Armed Forces of any place and time, ask the senior NCOs.
VietVet
1SG Wewers says, “What remains to be done is the collective piece - until Iraqis come together behind a unified Iraq, long-term security and stability is nothing more than a pipe-dream.”
Many would say that the only way Iraq or any other tribalist Muslim country is ever unified is under a stern, or even vicious, authoritarian.
I don't believe that the Liberals and RATS have thought far enough into the future to realize that their future, long term, is going to be very, very bleak.
I hope you’re right Duke. Something has to be done about the destructive liberals in this country and their elected royals.
We conservatives need to keep the heat on our Republican royals too. Some tend to be a little weak in the knees.
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