Troops and more

8-13-10

Happy Friday the thirteenth. I hope nothing unworldly happens to you today, like the meteor shower we have been experiencing of an evening.It is tremendous to look at and wonder, just do not do it from the 13th floor or from room 13 in a hotel, if you can find one.

Some of the National news has been the White House touting the draw down of troops from Iraq going on now. The Administration keeps talking about all "combat troops" leaving by the end of the month. That will leave "only" 50,000 troops there. I hope we leave them a rifle or two to share. They just might need one.

I always thought everybody in our military is trained for hostilities. I am sure they are taught about weapons and the safe use of same during their military service. I DID NOT KNOW WE HAD NON-COMBAT TROOPS IN THE MILITARY SERVICE. Sure, somebody has to clean the windows and cook and service our vehicles but, unless these jobs are outsourced from defense contractors, our trained military service members are doing this work in a combat zone. I bet they are getting combat pay while in Iraq. Without the other troops present, why do the 50,000 support troops need to be there. Who are they supporting?

If we have not been able to train the Iraq troops to protect their own country in seven years, how are the non-combat troops going to do it, with a bottle of Windex and some Valvoline.

Everyone in the military is a "COMBAT TROOP". I don't care what the White House says or how they spin it. 

Have a fine weekend. Stay cool, think how those non-combat troops are feeling in Iraq. They have been abandoned in the heat by their own government.


Bruce A. Brennan

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