Classic Grunt’s Gripe, Updated
Must read from a sergeant in Afghanistan, via Blackfive:
… I am tired of the Democrats whining for months on T.V., in the New York Times, and in the House and Senate that we need more troops to win the war in Iraq, and then when my Commander in Chief plans to do just that, they say that is the wrong plan, it won’t work, and we need a “new direction.”
… I am tired of the decisions of Sergeants and Privates made in the heat of battle being scrutinized by lawyers who were not there and will never really know the state of mind of the young soldiers who were there and what is asked of them in order to survive.
… I am tired of Code Pink, Daily Kos, Al-Jazzera, CNN, Reuters, the Associated Press, ABC, NBC, CBS, the ACLU, and CAIR thinking that they somehow get to have a vote in how we blast, shoot and kill these animals who would seek to subdue us and destroy us.
… It is only possible to defeat an enemy who kills indiscriminately by utterly destroying him. He cannot be made to yield or surrender. He will fight to the death by the hundreds to kill only one or two of us.
… So let’s get it done. Until the fight is won and there is no more fight left.
There’s plenty more. Read the whole thing
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:59 pm on Tuesday, January 30, 2007
4 Responses to “Classic Grunt’s Gripe, Updated”
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January 31st, 2007 at 3:53 am
Loved the letter from the troop. Can’t express enough how much I disagree with the Roosevelt quote that heads the post, though. We have enough trouble caused by those who think they have a claim against the days and efforts of someone else’s life, no matter the circumstances of that life. That is called slavery.
P. S. It is good to hear the grousing. Speaks well of morale. Too bad the nature of the grouse is what it is.
January 31st, 2007 at 4:31 am
Classic Grunt’s Gripe, Updated
… I should have my ass kicked for missing Blackfive’s post earlier. Go read it now
January 31st, 2007 at 10:21 am
From his mouth to God’s (and the government’s) ear. Until then, I won’t hold my breath.
January 31st, 2007 at 2:51 pm
I am tired of seeing Active Duty Army and Marine units being extended past their original redeployment dates, when there are National Guard Units that have yet to deploy to a combat zone in the last 40 years.
While that is true (and probably longer in some cases), it is a gripe against someone at the planning level and not the NG units themselves. I know for a fact that brigades (or at least parts of brigades) from NJ and MA were sent to Gitmo to provide security while the brigade in Puerto Rico-rated in the lowest level for deployment of any NG unit-stayed home. Others were sent to pull security at bases around the country and so were close to the maximum involuntary mobilization window of 2 years for reservists barring total mobilization.
Use of the reserve component in the GWOT has been haphazard at best IMHO, but those units that have deployed have done an outstanding job (if I do say so myself) despite being often treated like second-class soldiers.