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A very good read however with everything in life there is balance. For every Sgt. Hensly there are 10,000 honorable soldiers doing there jobs.
As the quote in the article says
"If you have never been outside the wire, you really have no basis [to judge]," said Hand. "You've never been in a life-or-death situation where you have had to count on the guy to your left and right ... You see stuff out there that no one back here is going to see."
This is a situation that makes good soldiers angry as this just creates more insurgents.
Respectfully
Sgt. Boyd W. Donaldson
U. S. Army
OIF VI-VII
“If this "War on Terror" is the "War of this Generation" and Washington is not going to change that mission, then … Washington needs to mobilize this nation through national service (conscription). “To have 1 percent of this nation's citizens bear 100 percent of that burden is morally reprehensible. ‘Support the Troops’ needs to be more than words to the other 99 percent of this nation's citizens.”
I do not like to make comparisons to Vietnam as they are totally different in the fact that Oil is a huge part of the current war. However as with Nam how many of the nations elite have served in the "War on Terror"???
