WP: Under Fire

[Southpaw Bookworm]

Do these asshats have NO conscience and humanity whatsoever? Wait, I already know the answer.

This article shows just how well the MILITARY is supporting the troops: denying treatment, making spurious charges, sending troops into battle without maps or equipment that works. Bastards!

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Satchel bomb!"

His shout shatters the night. The lieutenant is fighting, barking orders. He hollers and grunts. On the sofa at a friend's house, 1st Lt. Jullian Philip Goodrum, U.S. Army Reserve, wrestles and thrashes, fighting a war as he sleeps.

Pam McGill can hear him. She bolts upright in bed in her Knoxville, Tenn., home and rushes to the living room.

*snip*

And there's a court-martial looming, too. The same Army that is treating Goodrum for PTSD also is prosecuting him because he did not request the appropriate military leave before checking himself into a civilian psychiatric hospital last fall, during a mental breakdown. For that, he's been charged as AWOL -- absent without leave -- even though he was turned away from medical care at Fort Knox, Ky., his base, on the day of his breakdown, according to testimony in his case.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14786-2004Oct31.html

[Southpaw Bookworm]

1. Kick

In hopes that someone will see it.