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Military news…
A disturbing number of Americans still believe the stereotype that veterans are ticking time bombs ready to explode at the first provocation, a new survey which shows that the stereotype of the unstable, violent veteran is still alive and well among U.S. adults. 23% of adults also said that PTSD is not treatable, which is far from the truth.
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A pregnant specialist in the Oregon National Guard is back home on Thursday after staying in her unit armory for an unclear amount of time while her battalion was gone for annual training this week. It is about the Guard failing to build “cohesive teams” and push “people first” the way the Army wants to do. The unit commander is still trying to figure out out how many nights she spent in the armory.
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“I could ask what color the sky is and even though we can all see the sky is blue, they’ll still need everyone and their lawyer to sign off on a statement confirming as much.” That’s what one Army public affairs officer said about the branch’s transparency problem. Haley writes about how Army commanders fail to recognize the importance of communicating with the public. That failure not only disrupts the branch’s connection to the people they serve, but also takes away its “information advantage” as one source said.
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It is getting very disturbing to me the things that are going on with national government.
There still is no plan on how to save the lives of interpreters of Afghanistan. They are going to be put out like last night’s trash if we do not protect them.
The latest is that the chief of staff said that, “We are working on it.” Well, the September 11th withdraw day for our military is coming closer and closer.
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I may be repeating myself here, but a thought about South Korea came to my head right now.
I had a day off from work, and a courier driver invited me to ride with him up to the DMZ zone. (Demilitarized zone.)
I was excited to do that. Never been up there. We headed out and along the way we came to some rice paddy fields. The driver told me,”Let’s have some fun.” I wasn’t sure what he meant, but we came up on a old man carrying two buckets on his shoulders with the help of a strap across his back.
My driver said, “Let’s give him a spin.” Again, I was too naive to know what was coming next. He told me to lean out of the jeep and tap the old man’s bucket on his left side.
I did that, and the man spun around and fell to the ground. I looked in horror, while my driver laughed his head off.
The old man was covered with the contents of his bucket which was human waste that they use to fertilize their crops.
I looked back to see him shaking his fists in anger. I got very angry with the driver and his thought was, “He’s only a gook!”
We finally got to the DMZ. The driver went off to deliver his packages. He left right on the edge of the DMZ. There were soldiers there with guns, and they were observing the other side of the DMZ, which is enemy territory.
They allowed me to use their binoculars to look across. I could see a North Korean soldier looking back at me.
I asked the soldier if I should wave. He said, “NO!” That guy would rather see you dead then to wave at you.
This excerpt from the book, Signs of Hope for the Military: In and Out of the Trenches of Life, and many more are in the book.
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Last bed check for this week…. How are you doing? Did you have some not so fun things happen while you were deployed?
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