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| Platoon Mutiny Alleged In Iraq |
| 2004-10-15 |
| The Army is investigating reports that several members of a reservist supply unit in Iraq refused to go on a convoy mission, the military said Friday. Relatives of the soldiers said the troops considered the mission too dangerous. The reservists are from the 343rd Quartermaster Company, which is based in Rock Hill, S.C. The unit delivers food and water in combat zones. According to The Clarion-Ledger newspaper in Jackson, Miss., a platoon of 17 soldiers refused to go on a fuel supply mission Wednesday because their vehicles were in poor shape and they did not have a capable armed escort... |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #5 Haven't yet seen Franks as an Eisenhower, much less Patton. He is a manager, a good manager, but not the strong warrior. Managers always rule when the wars start, but it is at the end of the war that the true warriors are put in command, while the managers go back to the states and manage the infrastructure. It is how we win our wars, when we choose to win. |
| Posted by: Jame Retief 2004-10-16 9:12:27 AM |
| #4 #2 - there are Pattons and Eisenhowers in this Army - look at General Franks. This case does not need a general it needs a strong 1st SGT to put a boot in somebodys ass - either the Battalion HQ for not providing the escort or the soldier shirking duty whichever case. |
| Posted by: JP 2004-10-15 10:35:19 PM |
| #3 Laumer Rules!(Tip o'hat to "Jame Retief") Yes,I think State Dept. too often resembles his CDT. |
| Posted by: Stephen 2004-10-15 7:53:40 PM |
| #2 It seems a valid argument, if it is valid. Refusal to do dangerous things when there is not a demonstrable need to do them is called suicide. Rushing a machine gun nest that has the platoon pinned down and dying before you can do anything is a sacrifice. Driving in a convoy of trucks in need of maintenance, without enough armament to deter ambush is tempting suicide. A pointless death because someone is too lazy to get things done right is not what our troops deserve. One the other hand if they are simply attempting to get out of dangerous duty because they are scared . . . that is what firing squads are for (that will NEVER happen . . . we have no Pattons, or Eisenhowers). |
| Posted by: Jame Retief 2004-10-15 7:27:26 PM |
| #1 Bing! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-10-15 5:29:49 PM |