Face of Defense: Mother, Son Prepare to Deploy to Kosovo Together

Face of Defence ^ | Spc. Lindsey M. Frazier, USA

[SandRat]

CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind., May 15, 2008 – Many mothers sit at home and wonder what their deployed son or daughter is doing, hoping everything is all right and waiting for the next phone call. Some might see a mother deploying with her son as a great thing, but what onlookers might not think about is what is left back home.

Army National Guard Spc. Roschell Eaton and her son, Spc. Jason Hutchins, both from 3175th Military Police Company, train at Camp Atterbury, Ind., for their upcoming deployment as part of Kosovo Force 10, Multinational Task Force East. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Lindsey Frazier  
(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available.

Army National Guard Spc. Roschell Eaton of 3175th Military Police Company from Warrenton, Mo., knows this scenario all too well.

Eaton’s younger son, Devlin, a high school senior, is staying with his grandmother while she deploys with her elder son, Spc. Jason Hutchins, also an MP in the 3175th.

The mother-son National Guard duo from Troy, Mo., is in mobilization training here for their upcoming deployment as part of Kosovo Force 10, Multinational Task Force East. KFOR 10 is the 16th rotation in an ongoing peacekeeping operation to provide a safe and secure environment for all of Kosovo.

Eaton and her sons have never been apart; it has always been the three of them. She has raised the boys on her own since Jason was a toddler.

“We’re best friends,” Eaton said with a sigh. “But sometimes you have to leave the ones you love to do what you love.”

Eaton served eight years in the Navy before joining the Missouri Army National Guard. She began missing the camaraderie that she had in the military when she would watch Jason come home in his uniform, and in 2006, after a 12-year break from the military, she decided it was her time to get back in.

“While I was in advanced individual training, my mom called me and told me she joined the Guard,” Hutchins said. “She talked about joining, but I didn’t think she really would.”

In addition to being military police in the same company, mother and son were in the same platoon before the deployment started. And they’re not the only military members of their close-knit family. Devlin, the younger brother, joined the Army National Guard last year and completed basic training the summer before his senior year. He will continue on to AIT for military intelligence as soon as he graduates from high school this month.

“It’s really cool having my mom in my unit; it made us even closer than we were before,” Hutchins said. “The part that is hard is leaving my brother behind.”

The hard part, Eaton said, is that she won’t be home to be Mom. She said she has always been a mother first, but being a mother has to come second, since the Army is now first, she acknowledged.

As she expressed her pride in being a mother, she paused, turned her head to the side and looked away. Taking deep breaths was all she could do to keep the tears from falling. The moment hit her as she thought of not being there for the special moments in her younger son’s life.

“He graduates high school this year, and there’s prom,” she said softly. “I want to be there for the big things and the little things. Devlin says he understands. He said that I was there for his basic training graduation, and that meant more to him than anything.”

Eaton smiled as she regained her composure. With a big grin, she said, “My boys and me are a tight trio.”

Knowing both of her sons are safe, and not sitting on the couch wondering about them, is the best thing she could ask for, she said.

(Army Spc. Lindsey Frazier serves in public affairs at Camp Atterbury, Ind.)

[FormerLib]

That’s rioting. That’s not open warfare.

No, it was clearly a planned pogrom. Not only did it achieve its goals of additional ethnic cleansing of the Serbs and Roma, but the eradication of more evidence that Kosovo is Serbia (the ancient Serbian Churches found everywhere there).

[FormerLib]

You’ve got this most recent addition to the Jihadist cheerleading squad in a complete dither.

Of course, it’s just a retread of the most original cheerleader.

[GAB-1955]

No, it was a riot, like the Serbs pulled the day after Kosovo declared itself independent. If it doesn't involve machine guns and mortars, it's a riot.

[FormerLib]

You want to pretend that the pogrom wasn’t designed to further the ethnic cleansing by calling it a riot, go ahead, but don’t mind us laughing at you.

[GAB-1955]

Laugh all you want. You'll never get Kosovo back.

[FormerLib]

You'll never get Kosovo back.

Wrong again, peace and justice will return to Kosovo alongside the Serb army. Eventually, the foreigners will go home.

But thanks for admitting you know nothing about Serbs or Kosovo.

[Bokababe]

From the Poster for Peter French's planned lecture, which you posted:“During the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, Serbian men described themselves as compelled to rape and murder Kosovar women and children. This felt necessity was provoked and sustained by collective memories nurtured in Serbs for seven centuries. The basic question I hope to answer is whether group members caught in the throes of collective memories should be held responsible for their actions when they “can do no other.”

French's Statement:"This escalated into an outrageously false (and I believe libelous) article posted on a website (www.serbianna.com) in which my views are grossly mischaracterized. This website wrongly attributes to me the claim that "Serbian people are rapist and killers because they are delusional about their history during the time they lived under the Islamic Law in Kosovo." I make no such claim. Nor do I make any of the other wild claims now attributed to me in emails and elsewhere. I do not think the Serbian people are or were delusional and I was not going to say so in the lecture. Nor do I think the Serbian people are rapists and killers (although individual Serbs have raped and murdered, as have members of every ethnic group on Earth).

So who is lying here? Somebody got caught red-handed and started backtracking big time!

I love it when the vicitimizer here starts acting like the "victim of circumstances" when they get caught inciting racism and hatred. That applies to you and French, both, old-mold!

...."So daughters were gang-raped in front of their fathers, wives in front of their husbands, nieces in front of their uncles, mothers in front of their children, just to dehumanise, just to degrade.'

So are there any sadists and true paranoids out their getting turned on or hiding under beds now when "a Serb man" walks in the room?

Geez, if Serb men were this oversexed, please tell me why there aren't a lot more "Serbs" in this world than there are "Albanians"?

Also please tell me why "Serb men" --instead of "Albanian men" --in the diaspora (US & Europe) aren't on every country's watch list for "sex crimes" and "running prostitution rings"?

This is a case of cultural projection, the very things that the Albanian culture supports, they accuse Serbs of doing. And the very things that you do, old-mold (lying), you accuse me of doing.

"Now please leave me alone. Admit it, stop posting lies and stop starting news wars. It's costing us a fortune in helping Serbia live and by paying for peace keepers."

LOLOL! Literally $Billions poured into supporting Albanians in Kosovo with no result and no end to the need for this financial aid in sight -- while you try to "kill Serbia" (and Macedonia and Montenegro and Greece) and it's supposed to be "Serbs' fault", "Serbs costing us money"?

You are just completely insane aren't you, old mold?

[Bokababe]

"You’ve got this most recent addition to the Jihadist cheerleading squad in a complete dither."

Logic and basic common sense will do it every time.

[joan]

Yes the NYT does propaganda and is a part of the mainstream press. Even Freepers call it the New York Slimes - or something like that.

And yes, in the writing they don't even name the sources of the "Serbian soldiers" or alleged captured Serbian POW who makes these claims. It sounds purely fictional.

Oh and note the claim of the Albanian liar: ‘’They just started shooting,’’ Mr. Zheniqi, a survivor, said in an interview. ‘’The dead bodies behind me pushed me over a cliff and into the stream. I was lucky because all the dead bodies fell on top of me.’’

So where is the man's injuries if he was "pushed over a cliff and into a stream"? Where's a photo of this man?

The international officials involved in the courts in Kosovo after the war said about the Albanians "No one hesitates to make things up."

As for the rapes there has BEEN NO DNA NOR PATERNITY EVIDENCE. They don't even try. The rape babies only exist in the propaganda of dodgy hoaky stories.

You are a sucker for propaganda.

[joan]

"Bodies have been mutilated, with ears cut off, eyes gouged out or a cross, a Serbian symbol, carved into foreheads or chests."

Where's photo documentation or genuine autopsy evidence of this? Why didn't any of the Albanian refugees/"survivors" have such scars or missing eyes?

The KLA was known to torture/mutilate Serbs. Bokababe has on her page a picture of a KLA soldier with his son standing behind him and he is holding the severed head of a Serb and they have a bag with other heads.

The Albanians have a reputation for controlling the drug trade and forced prostitution in Europe and Britain.

Many, many Albanian have been involved in forcing women into prostitution in Britain. They seem to be in the news there every several weeks.

[old-and-old]

how’s you inat level today? What is that, deny, deny, deny, wish death to everyone but your “friends” ? The good part is that you’ve telling the same stuff about 4-5 nations by now and people know.

as far as crime goes, you are doing quite well even after Milosevic and Arkan:

Australia:

“The fourth group to which I turn my attention is Serbian organised crime. This group is involved in hydroponic cannabis cultivation using illegal immigrant labour, illicit drug supply, illicit drug-related standover activities, arson and firearm offences. These Serbian organised
crime groups are well-financed, extremely violent and maintain fluid connections to other organised crime groups in the interests of profit.”
http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/joint/commttee/j10327.pdf

and did you find out who killed your ex-PM? Was it the government, mafia, the war criminals, or you can’t tell the difference? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1003770.stm

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“Many of these paramilitaries were run by gangland bosses - the best-known among them the late Zeljko Raznatovic or Arkan.

In the process of establishing and maintaining the Red Berets, the long-serving head of state security during the Milosevic era, Jovice Stanisic, managed to establish a degree of control over Serbia’s expanding criminal underworld.

But with the Red Berets recruiting many hardened criminals, the symbiotic relationship between Serbia’s secret police and mafia bosses increasingly turned into an uncontrollable - and unreliable force.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2888943.stm
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101010319-102066,00.html

and go back searching google news, maybe an Albanian stole a bicycle today. Post it and let us know how Albanians are criminals and you are saints.

[joan]

"and go back searching google news, maybe an Albanian stole a bicycle today. Post it and let us know how Albanians are criminals"

You underestimate me 'ol sonny. For I got just for you here an Albanian "drug addict and dealer" who beat and robbed people and just died in a shoot out with the Australian police. As I said the Albanians are Vi-o-lent!

A good boy turned bad

Andrew Bolt

May 16, 2008 12:00am

SAMIR Ograzden must have had in him something good that should have been saved. Or at least not ground into the dirt.

His girlfriend reckons she saw it.

She dropped to her knees in the dark carpark where he bled to death last Tuesday and cried: "He was the most wonderful person. He'd do anything for anyone."

True enough, I thought then, if by "anything" you mean belting them, robbing them, selling them drugs and trying to shoot them.

That, after all, is why the drug addict and dealer was lying dead under the West Gate Freeway.

He'd just shot and wounded a policeman who had come to back up his police colleagues after they pulled over Ograzden's car, in which he had several thousand dollars, drugs and a shotgun, and was in turn mortally wounded in a shoot-out.

This "wonderful person" was just 25 when he died, but already had twice served jail and was wanted on more charges.

…

Her own father helped there, and was close to his grandson, teaching him about his Albanian roots.

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[Jacob Kell]

>The Albanians, turns out, rose against Turks much more than Serbs and no one suggests that Turks or anyone really conqured them

If that was the case, how come Albania was mostly Moslem? The Turks, among others, did indeed subjugate Albania, or at least parts of it for a long time. Look at the Romans, the Byzantines, the Normans, the Venetians, the Italians. Also, as far as the Turks went, ever hear of Arnauts? They were Albanian Moslem troops who often did the Sublime Porte’s dirty work in the Balkans. As for the Serbs, yes quite a few did collaborate with the Turks, but others didn’t. Look at the Haiduks. My point is just that few, if any, nations in the Balkans during Turkish occupation had a monopoly on resistance or collaboration.

[old-and-old]

Most Albanians were mercenaries, in search of making a living for the 450 years Turkey occupied them. They fought for Naples, Spain, Turkey, Russia, (even) Serbia and few hundred of them took over Egypt and held it for 150 years.

The point was that you have to do what you have to do, you have to fight for them, pay taxes, and many princes were split in different directions. For example, the Albanians were sent to crush the Greek Independence started by Albanians (Suli tribe.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souliotes Even, in 1389, I read that Serbs and Albanians were on both sides of the battle, some for the Christians, some for Ottomans.

I objected to the Serb POV that “we resisted the Turks, held back the hordes, no one else did,” thus we deserve Kosovo nonsense. See Romania, Bulgaria and Albania in 1400’s. If this was the reasoning, Serbia should be split among the above three nations. “Dracula,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hunyadi and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skanderbeg actually won quite a few decisive battles against Turkey but ultimately lost.

As far as faith, Albanians do not really care much about it, so many switched faith but maintained guns, and a semi-independence. A trade-off without sacrificing much. You can always, formally, get the faith back and it does not appear to have made a difference in how they behaved. http://www.peacelink.nu/Boker/Durham/Durham_III.html if say you’re a

Turkey, IIRC, did not kill people for not converting. I have to find this story but it said that they paid no taxes and when they fought it was as highly paid soldiers, not serfs forced to fight. They way I read is that while occupied, Turkey let them rule their own way. read this:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01253b.htm (written in 1900 so it’s dated. ‘Turk’ = Muslim faith)

Edith Durham states the same way, mentioning that they cannot be assimilated /really subdued.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E07E7DF1131E233A25751C0A9619C946096D6CF

Looks like the Turks didn’t push too far, and when they did they found trouble and it was not worth unleashing the entire empire on them. Like many tribes in Montengro it appears that the North was never touched by Turks, until 1911 when Turks lost there. This site, that I cannot vouch for otherwise, has NYT clips from that time: http://www.albanianfront.com/press-news/?p=27

[GAB-1955]

I didn't admit that I know nothing about Serbians and Kosovo. I just don't agree with you or Serbia on this matter.

[joan]

There were far less people killed during the Serb riots - only a Serb by accident in the U.S. Embassy and later during a the arrest of Serbian court workers by the UN (who is said to have frog marched them - mostly women - through the Albanian sector of Mitrovica) there was a Ukrainian police officer killed when they were using bullets and rubber bullets against the Serbs.

There was no destruction of Albanian homes during the riots, no systematic destruction of mosques (which was done during the Albanian-led pogrom), and no stealing of homes and land which the Albanians did and still have some of them to this day.

[joan]

"Booohoo. People lie to get papers"

Interesting how you admit to Albanians lying about that when confronted by the evidence. They were caught lying on a massive scale which included making up stories.

Yet your small brain doesn't consider the Albanians (and other Balkanites) ability to lie and make up stories for their propaganda.

They were even caught inventing atrocity stories - claiming people were killed by the Serbs when those people were later found alive, well and unscathed.

A Canadian reporter did a documentary following an 18-year-old Kosovo Albanian girl, Rajmonda, who in the beginning (late 1998) was in a hospital said to be recovering from the shock of her little 6-year-old sister killed by the Serbs.

Later the reporter visited and the girl was a KLA soldier. The reporter, Nancy Durham, had always wanted to visit Rajmonda's home but Rajmonda kept telling her it was too dangerous.

After the war, however, Nancy Durham went to Rajmonda's home and saw the claimed murdered sister alive, well, unscathed and completely oblivious to Rajmonda's tale.

At first Rajmonda and her parents tried to deny it and claim it was another girl, but the reporter combed through the family albums as she sat on a couch in their home, and realized the family was lying.

Finally Rajmonda did admit she lied and said it was the KLA doctors who had trained her to lie. Rajmonda was already a KLA soldier in the beginning when she posed lying on the bed pretending to be in shock.

Here is one report on the story. The original documentary had aired in Canada and many other nations and I'm sure if you'd seen it you'd believe in Rajmonda's lying claims. I'm sure if the truth was discovered people who still be showing the documentary as evidence of Serb atrocities.

CONNED IN KOSOVO: A CBC REPORTER'S DILEMMA HOW TO RESPOND WHEN A TALE OF ATROCITY ISN'T TRUE?

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA -- When Nancy Durham first discovered that she had been lied to, her reaction was "the most incredible sinking feeling."

Ms. Durham, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) television reporter, had returned to Kosovo in June of this year, to do a follow-up piece on an 18-year-old girl who had joined the Kosovo Liberation Army after her young sister had been killed by Serbs. The girl's story had been part of a larger piece that aired on the CBC in January, to much critical praise. Yet as Durham stood in the doorway of the family's home in Skenderaj, the sister who was supposed to have been killed was standing there, alive and well.

Rather than trying to excuse or brush off the lie, or have the CBC do a simple correction, Durham decided to do a full story - not only about the girl who told it, but what it said about how news is reported from a war zone.

The result is a 16-minute report: "The Truth About Rajmonda: A KLA Soldier Lies for the Cause." It's being hailed by many media observers in Canada as a breakthrough piece that should serve as a model for other news organizations.

Durham's involvement with Rajmonda Rreci began in September 1998 while she was filming a piece on an Albanian doctor. Rajmonda, a patient, told Durham on camera that she was joining the KLA to avenge the death of her six-year old sister. Durham (who works as a one-woman reporting "team") returned in December 1998 and tracked down Ms. Rreci. During that interview, Rreci said that her sister was fortunate to die for Kosovo, and that she would do the same.

Then in June, almost as soon as NATO-led peacekeeping troops went into the region, Durham went back. It was during this trip she learned that Rreci had lied. When confronted, she told Durham that she had actually thought her sister was dead, but wasn't sure, and that doctors in the hospital had encouraged her to tell the story because other girls had lost sisters to the Serbs.

"My first thoughts were 'This is a disaster,' " says Durham. "I had this passion for the people in the story. I felt really depressed. If this happens to me, I thought, and I go back again, and again, and again, how many other journalists has this happened to?" Durham returned to her home in Oxford, England, and thought about what she wanted to do. And although some media critics have said that the CBC pushed her to go back to do the report, Durham says this is untrue. She says she needed to go back, find Rajmonda Rreci again, and this time tell the true story.

It turned out that most of what the teenager had said wasn't true. She had actually been a member of the KLA before she went to the hospital and had known all along that her sister was alive. But Rreci continued to stress that other Kosovar girls had lost their sisters, and why shouldn't she do it for them? Ultimately, Rreci did admit that what she said was just KLA propaganda…

[FormerLib]

I didn't admit that I know nothing about Serbians and Kosovo.

Yes you did when you suggested that the Serbs would surrender Kosovo. That means you know nothing about either.

[old-and-old]

Belgrade Bobic.

“We lie to deceive ourselves, to console others; we lie for mercy, we lie to fight fear, to encourage ourselves, to hide our and somebody else’s misery. We lie for love and honesty. We lie because of freedom. Lying is the trait of our patriotism and the proof of our innate smartness. We lie creatively, imaginatively, inventively.”
The father of Serbia, Dobrica Cosic.

But when you lie or try to distract too much, people no longer believe you. By the way, how's Djordje Martinović doing? Oh, wait they are no gays in Serbia either.

The latest Serbian lie: US, has kidnapped Serbs as guinea pigs in its German bases and CIA paid the Albanians for them--from Del Ponte's Serbian source:

"She [the source] said that the healthiest males up to age of 45 were picked out among the imprisoned Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija, and transferred to U.S. military bases abroad, especially in Germany and Italy. Allegedly two missing Serb men from Kosovo and Metohija were seen in the U.S. base in Wiesbaden. She didn't know what was done with the abducted Serbs in those bases but there are indications that they were used as guinea pigs.

"Anyone who tried to escape would end up under the knife together with the others who were taken to the camps in Albania. Current and former Albanian premiers Sali Berisha and Fatos Nano were involved with the blessing of Bernard Kouchner, former UNMIK head and currently French foreign minister, a physician. Also involved were Ramush Haradinaj and his brother Daut, Agim Cheku and Hashim Thaci, as well as Halim Omer Osmani, Muhamed Luti, Enes Elmazi," recounted Mitrovic.

She said that in 2001 and 2002 some Serbian politicians, primarily belonging to the opposition at that time, were collecting money to find the kidnapped Serbs. The final sum was several hundred thousand German marks. Through the intercession of U.S. CIA Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Shaw (sp?) the money was given to a certain Kosovo Albanian. The Kosovo Albanian learned a lot but he was caught and killed, said Mitrovic." http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2008/04/kouchner-role.html

All you need to do is add Martians and I'll believe it. Are you still calling us Americans "Nazis" for "bombing your monasteries"?

"From 1998 to the present, the Serbian Orthodox Church has claimed that NATO deliberately bombed Serbian Orthodox Monasteries and other sacred monuments. These accusations can still be found Serbian Orthodox Church WEB sites and in other forums. After thorough investigation, it turned out that these accusations were complete fabrications.

For an op-ed piece refuting the accusations of the Serbian Orthodox Church, see the Kosovo Current Crisis Web page, Michael Sells, How Serbian Orthodox Church Leaders Used Monasteries to Entice Ethnic Hatred. The same article also appears on the web-page of the Kosova Crisis Center.

In claiming that NATO was engaged in systematic annihilation of Serbian religious heritage in Kosovo, the Serbian Orthodox Church used the same fabrications it used in 1986 when it claimed that Kosovar Albanians were annihilating Serbian Monasteries, engaged in organized rape against Serbian women, and carrying out genocide against Serb. These accusations were shown Serbian journalists to be fabrications, but they were nevertheless taken up by Serbian intellectuals in the famous SANU Memorandum that is considered to have been the death knell of the former Yugoslavia."

http://www.haverford.edu/relg/sells/reports.html#Sells_SUC

[FormerLib]

Some old stuff, Bonly-boy.

What would the Jihdists do without you.