Living up to General David Petraeus's description of today's Brave Men and Women comprising our All Volunteer Military, The New Greatest Generation, 1,215 gathered on the Fourth of July at Al Faw Palace rotunda on Camp Victory, to re-enlist and celebrate America’s Independence Day.
These Brave Young Volunteers hear all the doom and gloom and manipulative reports from the lamestream media about their Brave Efforts and still, they come together to pledge over 5,500 years of additional service to our country.
They've seen war, up close and personal and kno more what is at risk than all the Cindy Sheehans and Medea Benjamins running around bad mouthing the president and the Troops efforts. And yet, they still come continue serving and lifting up a struggling ally so others may share in the very freedoms so many in America take for granted.
Command Sgt, Maj. Marvin L. Hill said this is the largest re-enlistment ceremony since the all-volunteer force began in 1973. Sgt. Major Hill added, "We recognize the sacrifices they make and the sacrifices their families and communities make as they serve in Iraq. These servicemembers know the cost of war and they are still re-enlisting."
Gen. Petraeus, who presided over the ceremony said, "You and your comrades here have been described as America’s new greatest generation, and, in my view, you have more than earned that description. It is the greatest of honors to soldier here with you," addressing the re-enlistees.
Americans should be in awe of these Brave Young Warriors who willfully place themselves between us and our enemies. It is with the greatest of pride that I welcome them as my Brothers and Sisters.
Saturday, July 05, 2008
1,215 Troops Reenlist In Iraq
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Brave? YES.
Brainwashed?
Ive met a lot of Marines, and one thing I can tell you is they are always "different" when they come back from the service. It is not an easy adjustment.
How long did you serve and in what branch, jonny?
How many protestors "changed" in college under the influence of leftist professors like Ward Churchill?
Odd how people like you see Military Service, VOLUNTARY Military Service as "brainwashing" and see indoctrination by leftists as "education."
As we have said for many years, "IF YOU DIDN'T GO, YOU WOULDN'T KNOW."
1215 suckers...
It won't be long now. Victory is ours.
raoul once again displays the left's "we support the Troops, but not the war."
Thanks, Raoul, I knew I could count on one of you.
One thing the left cannot fathom at all is the sense of duty, devotion and honor so many others feel towards our country.
Suckers? No, just common ordinary people who will willingly place themselves between you and our enemies so you may sleep peacefully at night.
iago, what do you mean by "victory," a repeat of the abandonment of the Vietnamese, which costs millions of innocent lives in South Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos?
Funny how ya'll say the same things that were being said in 1946 towards securing and rebuilding Europe after that war.
Nothing new at all!!
You have a lot of nerve asking someone to define victory when you have been unable to define it with respect to the Iraq Occuaption for lo these many years.
LEW, I was not aiming it at you. No offense toward your service was intended. My Father was a Marine. I have several friends who were Marines and other branches as well. Personally, when I was the appropriate age in 2000, I wanted to do the Navy. At that time former Navy people who I knew advised me against it. They said it was a Sham. Therefore, I joined the United States Forest Service Plumas Hotshots. The Hotshots are an elite firefighting crew. There are only 60 shot crews in the country. It is comparable to Marines, as far as the work and danger goes. But instead of bullets and bullets and bullets and bombs and bombs and bombs it is fire and fire and fire and hills and hills and hills (and chainsaws and torches). Many hotshot crew members have perished in fires over the years, and that is nothing to brag about. This was MY service to the country and I am VERY proud.
How many of those, who reenlisted were told that they would have to stay anyway, even if they did not choose to reenlist?
How many choose to reenlist and get a bonus, as opposed to not reenlisting and having a high probability of being told they had to continue to serve anyway.
It is brainwashing only if one does not agree with the message, otherwise it is education.
(Although some education has to do with learning facts, and I don't know if that would be brainwashing no matter what my beliefs. I wonder if I was brainwashed into believing that 1 + 1 = 2.
Of course some may argue that it is not, but they are defining 1, +, and/or 2 different than the norm).
Jonny, you should be proud of Forestry Service, no slight was intended. However, do you not think "brainwashing" occurs elsewhere besides the Military?
That was my point about indoctrination being labeled education.
Another way to look at it, since many volunteer for the Military and continue to re-up, could it be you suffered a degree of brainwashing by those who didn't care for Military Service?
I've known and continue to know several who served in all branches. Some didn't care for it, but most are proud of their service, me included. Why is it the country doesn't get to hear from those who are proud of serving?
Cheesey, you still on that kick? You have been supplied our defintion of victory numerous times, but refuse to accept it. When do you supply the definition that would enlist your support?
It is your side that refuses to offer a defintion, we have been doing it since day one.
Why, please do get out, provided you are actually in.
As usual no answer to the question 'What is victory?"
I do know what victory is not:
In a 1998 interview, Osama bin Laden — the terrorist organizer of 9/11 who still roams free — listed as one of his many grievances against the U.S. that Americans “have stolen $36 trillion from Muslims” by purchasing oil from Persian Gulf countries at low prices. The real price of a barrel of oil should be $144, bin Laden demanded.
Ten years ago today, the price of a barrel of oil was just $11. Heading into this holiday weekend, the price of a barrel of oil rested at $144 — a thirteen-fold increase.
One month after 9/11, the New York Times wrote of possible “nightmare” scenarios that would deliver bin Laden’s goal. Neela Banerjee warned that among the “misguided decisions” that would put oil supplies at risk would be “that the United States attacks Iraq.”
Cheesey, you sound like the only victory you wish is for Al Qaeda.
Read it and weep, son,
UK Times: Cheer up. We're winning this War on Terror
Like I said, you have been supplied our defintion numerous times. Since you refuse to accept it, that's your problem, not ours. Deal with it, son.
As for oil, Cheesey, the price of crude has more than doubled since the Democrats swept into power with their promises of a "New Direction" and "lower gas prices."
Is that the "New Direction" we will see if Obama gets in, more hardship for Americans?
"Like I said, you have been supplied our defintion numerous times." Oh really, then it should not be difficult for you to supply a cite.
I know one thing, my definition of victory would include the capture of Osam bin Laden.
Bin Laden's mentor is Ronald Reagan. Reagan (and of course others) brought down Russia through economic pressures, not military action.
While this administration has convinced it's down-scale constituency that OBL wants to blow up rednecks in the middle of nowhere USA, the actual tactics of the enemy are economic.
Cheesey, do you think capturing Bin Laden will end terrorism, provided he is still alive?
He's a figure head whose capture would be a morale booster, at best.
But given the left's penchant for full constitutional rights being granted to captured terrorists, does the prospect of him being released, once captured, on American streets not enter your mind?
If we show we killed him, how many of you would decry it as a "murder?"
Nice words, but your actions speak contrary.
iago, care to document from reliable sources that Reagan was Bin Laden's mentor? Something besides a DNC talking point site.
Please explain how we apply economic sanctions against Al Qaeda. Then perhaps, you could explain how they are working so well against Iran
If you haven't noticed, Al Qaeda and the former Soviet Union are not the same.
Al Qaeda tactics are many and varied and yes, they have shown a desire to blow things up in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Eileen
Those 1,215 individuals re-enlisted and I would bet you that they knew Darned well they would be in Iraq the very next day for a long period of time..
People in the Military are not Stupid. Deployments are long periods of time and they don't send you home because you re-up in the middle of one, even in Iraq. Those people will go on to serve their cycle with their unit.
Jonny.. your choice of profession was a good one.. and you ought to be proud. But One thing, you can RESIGN from being in the organization.. the Military Man can not.
As for your comment Raoul.. you will NEVER understand.. Nor will the others who claim these individuals were brainwashed. Especially the person who claims to be Marine Corps Officer and a pilot, who should know better about funding the corps or any other organization. Which is provided by our house and senate. Although he dose have a small point about the officer game doing CYA game.
All the anti-bush or anti-war folks need to think about one thing here. 1,215 people have
re-enlisted and will be serving now and into the term of the Next president be it McCain or Obama. So they don't think of Idiological differences like all the people back home do.
Lew has a very good pooint in his first posting here!
There's no potty talk on the blog. Make your point without profanity and it makes your point stronger.
Period.
Make your point without the profanity and then we can all have a discussion worth having.
Au contraire Kitanis, I DO understand far too well I'm afraid. And the one thing I know beyond anything else is that there will always be a radical fringe element like YOU who is spoon fed from the government and believes everything.
Victoria wrote:
"There's no potty talk on the blog. Make your point without profanity and it makes your point stronger.
Period. Make your point without the profanity and then we can all have a discussion worth having."
I've tried this. It doesn't work. Your posts still get deleted.
Radical?
How am I a radical? Explain please so I can understand where you are comming from.
Now if your claiming I beleive everything the government tells me.. your wrong.. Even though I served 23 years in the Air Force.. through Regan, Bush 1, Clinton, and the majority of the Bush 2 era.. I do not beleive the government in everything it says.
Do I like George Bush.. No.. I do not trust the globlist who has ignored major issues and just coasted. The man is always given a bad rap whatever he dose but then he goes and dose more stupid things that just make matters worse. But he is the sitting president.. no matter what others say.
Obama? The Man is a marxist-socialist.. pure and simple and why would I ask for change in the form of higher tax rates.. Stiffle a chance of me making a higher income because Obama blelieves that I should give more to the government. I laugh the MOST when people talk about experience.. Less than one term in office in the Senate dose not inspire confidence in me in experience for the white house. His belief that the Government spends more will improve the economy is crazy...and dangerous.
John McCain? Geeze.. Appeasement to immigration.. and other blunders will prove that the conservative movement is dead in this country. He knows Washington over the years.. but I am not sur that is a good thing according to his statements.
Being in the military dose not mean one has the same mind as the man in the white house.. you serve and have your own opinions.. I gritted my teeth when Clinton accelerated the downsizing of the military that started under the Senior Bush Administration... and watched alot of good people leave early because of it.
But those who are more guilty of the crazyness are the politicians who year after year get re-elected and do their own agendas in office.. instead for the good of this country. They are the ones you should go after.. but nope.. we all tend to point fingures at the president..
WASHINGTON — Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda prisoners constituted torture and could make the Bush administration officials who approved them guilty of war crimes, according to a new book on counterterrorism efforts since 2001.
The book says that the International Committee of the Red Cross declared in the report, given to the C.I.A. last year, that the methods used on Abu Zubaydah, the first major Qaeda figure the United States captured, were “categorically” torture, which is illegal under both American and international law.
The book says Abu Zubaydah was confined in a box “so small he said he had to double up his limbs in the fetal position” and was one of several prisoners to be “slammed against the walls,” according to the Red Cross report. The C.I.A. has admitted that Abu Zubaydah and two other prisoners were waterboarded, a practice in which water is poured on the nose and mouth to create the sensation of suffocation and drowning.
The book, “The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals,” by Jane Mayer, who writes about counterterrorism for The New Yorker, offers new details of the agency’s secret detention program, as well as the bitter debates in the administration over interrogation methods and other tactics in the campaign against Al Qaeda.
source: NY Times
Oh dear, since it's from that liberal newspaper we can discount the war crimes. [g]
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