Analysis by Bobby. Can I get a Master of the Obvious picture, please?Earlier this week, the MSM announced the Marines had a shortfall for deployment to Iraq. I posted the article. This caused some consternation with Mrs. Bobby, and no doubt, many other family members. Nimble Spemble found some more specific information:
Marine Col. Guy A. Stratton, head of the manpower mobilization section, estimated that there is a current shortfall of about 1,200 Marines needed to fill positions in upcoming deployments.
Some of the military needs, he said, include engineers, intelligence, military police and communications.
This morning, as I woke up, it hit me. The Marines were short in a few specific categories - specific to the phase of the specific war we're fighting at this specific time. When my son went, he was trained to be a truck driver, because they were short of truck drivers at that specific point in time (fall, 2004). (And he volunteered to be trained so he could go with the majority of his reserve company.)
The Fifth-Columnists in the media, however, spun the information into something that suggested that the Marines were running short of ...well, Marines - trigger pullers. Maybe they're all just Marine automaton baby-killers to the simpleton press, but I think they consciously shaped a trivial bit of news into something that fit their agenda - the war is hopeless, no one wants to fight it, and the military is not only ignorant, but can't effectively organize a war. I had a call Thursday from a friend who believes that, and wondered about my son being recalled.
Of course they spun it; why didn't I see it Tuesday?