D_Raay
10-17-2004, 02:41 AM
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1204152004
This war's "Privates Slovick"; the US will make an example of these guys ' Pour les encouragement des autres', slamming these guys as hard as they can where the Abu Ghraib torturers received minor wrist slaps.
Patricia McCook said her husband, a staff sergeant, understood what it meant to disobey orders. But he did not feel comfortable taking his soldiers on another trip.
"He told me that three of the vehicles they were to use were deadlined ... not safe to go in a hotbed like that," Mrs McCook told the Clarion-Ledger newspaper of Mississippi.
The refusal to carry out orders will fuel persistent claims that the US military in Iraq is inadequately equipped and undermanned.
The US army has already announced it will prevent soldiers in units set for deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan from leaving the service at the end of their terms, in a move that critics have described as a return of the draft.
The announcement, an expansion of an army programme called "stop-loss", means that thousands of soldiers who had expected to retire or otherwise leave the military must now stay on for the duration of their deployment to those combat zones.
This war's "Privates Slovick"; the US will make an example of these guys ' Pour les encouragement des autres', slamming these guys as hard as they can where the Abu Ghraib torturers received minor wrist slaps.
Patricia McCook said her husband, a staff sergeant, understood what it meant to disobey orders. But he did not feel comfortable taking his soldiers on another trip.
"He told me that three of the vehicles they were to use were deadlined ... not safe to go in a hotbed like that," Mrs McCook told the Clarion-Ledger newspaper of Mississippi.
The refusal to carry out orders will fuel persistent claims that the US military in Iraq is inadequately equipped and undermanned.
The US army has already announced it will prevent soldiers in units set for deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan from leaving the service at the end of their terms, in a move that critics have described as a return of the draft.
The announcement, an expansion of an army programme called "stop-loss", means that thousands of soldiers who had expected to retire or otherwise leave the military must now stay on for the duration of their deployment to those combat zones.