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2007-08-31 Home Front: Politix

Soldiers talk of bureaucracy on battlefield

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Posted by Cromert 2007-08-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Hynes said problems cited by veterans arenï¿½t keeping people from signing up with the guard, ï¿½Weï¿½ve got the second or third highest enlistment rate weï¿½ve seen in decades,ï¿½ Hynes said. And he said 400 of the guardï¿½s 3,600 soldiers have volunteered to go back for second tours.

But...but...but, the MSM insists that morale is low. How can this be? /sarcasm off

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-08-31 07:38|| 2007-08-31 07:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Again, more antedotal evidence of the ROE's being overlawyered. What's great about this is that the Senators going to Iraq are all lawyers and will only make matters worse by proposing changes that will require even more fricking lawyers.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-08-31 10:25|| 2007-08-31 10:25|| Front Page Top

#3 It's what I've been saying for quite a while now, that one of the paradoxes of winning is that the ROE has to change. That is, while US military personnel want to intervene, they have to stand down at some point and let the locals take over.

And does this get frustrating in a hurry. Being ordered to "call a cop" instead of doing something about it yourself.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-31 10:29|| 2007-08-31 10:29|| Front Page Top

#4 On occasion, you will get a video with an unedited 5-10 minutes section where the pilot waits and waits for the "layers" of *Higher Authority* to give him orders *TO STRIKE* a 10-man-rocket-team!

Meanwhile: after 10 minutes has passed, the 10 maned team is now down to 1 rocketeer, the other 9 having left the area on foot in groups of onezs and twozs after they fired off all of their rockets.

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-08-31 11:14|| 2007-08-31 11:14|| Front Page Top

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