Seriously Injured Troops Being Redeployed to Iraq

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Quote[/b] ]As the military scrambles to pour more soldiers into Iraq, a unit of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Ga., is deploying troops with serious injuries and other medical problems, including GIs who doctors have said are medically unfit for battle. Some are too injured to wear their body armor, according to medical records.

That is what worries Steve Robinson, director of veterans affairs at Veterans for America, who has long been concerned that the military was pressing injured troops into Iraq. "Did they send anybody down range that cannot wear a helmet, that cannot wear body armor?" Robinson asked rhetorically. "Well that is wrong. It is a war zone." Robinson thinks that the possibility that physical profiles may have been altered improperly has the makings of a scandal. "My concerns are that this needs serious investigation. You cannot just look at somebody and tell that they were fit," he said. "It smacks of an overstretched military that is in crisis mode to get people onto the battlefield."

Apparently Walter Reed isn't the only scandal involving our Troops...

* Where's The LIB MSM On This One Kons?? * (http://archive.salon.com/news/2007/03/11/fort_benning/index.html)

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A more up to date accounting:

Quote[/b] ]Soldiers at Fort Benning said that two doctors from the division met with 75 injured soldiers, including Smith, on Feb. 15, in what the troops said was an effort to reevaluate -- and downgrade -- their health problems so that they could be deployed with the rest of the unit. In several cases, medical records provided to Salon supported those allegations, showing the soldiers to be healthier, on paper, than they were prior to that meeting.

It remains unclear how many injured troops from the 3rd Brigade were deployed last month. But others continue to come forward who, like Smith, had serious medical problems and narrowly avoided being shipped back to Iraq. The concern of these soldiers is not only that they could worsen their injuries by being deployed, but that they could also be a danger to themselves and the soldiers around them. Their stories add new evidence to accusations that brigade commanders, in desperate need of more troops for the surge were willing to deploy broken soldiers.

* LINK * (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/04/09/injured_soldiers/index.html)

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Looks like it might be time to rethink about the Selective service.

The military is not in favor of it because the quality of troops they get is so low. With the volunteers they can pick and choose the ones they need,with selective service and our educational system the quality is just not adequate to do the job !!

The attitudes are wrong also, in the military you can not pick and choose your assignment,and the ME,ME,ME, generation have never been denied any thing they might desire,that can generate much unneeded trama on the battle fields.They have difficulty adjusting to the Military way of doing things !! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
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Its all got out of hand hasn't it ? The idea was it would be over quickly, all the natives would be jumping for joy, throwing flowers at the liberators, and then it all went wrong.

This has been the biggest FU since the Crimean War

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