Considering how much the right defends them, I guess this is also their method of supporting the troops: The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Iraqi civilians and United States military personnel. Suddenly, on that May day in 2005, the copter dropped CS gas, a […]
Sunday’s Washington Post gives us this rosy look into how our veterans are being treated: Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan’s room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see […]
With stories like this it is not wonder the troops would like to see civilian leadership changes at the Pentagon: After suffering paralysis, brain damage, lost limbs and other wounds in war, nearly 900 soldiers have been saddled with $1.2 million in government debt because of the military’s “complex, cumbersome” pay system, congressional investigators said […]