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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Cut Benefits! Except Mine!

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Soldiers are bureaucrats.  We are employees of the government.  In the National Guard we are state employees.  When we deploy we are fed...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Who Fights Our Wars? Army 3.0: Pilot Trains for 1st Combat Deployment During Third Army “Career”

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 CW2 Sara Christensen In 1985, when President Ronald Reagan was just beginning his second term, the Soviet Union was fighting in ...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Suicide in the 1970s Army, Suicide Now

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In the spring of 1977, I was the duty sergeant in Wiesbaden, West Germany, when I got a call that one of our soldiers killed himself wh...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Back Story about the Big General in New Jersey

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Recently the Adjutant General of New Jersey made national news when the plus-size governor of the Garden State, Chris Christie, gave Bri...
Monday, October 12, 2015

Rules of Engagement--the Most Common Bitch I Heard in Iraq

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The serious complaint I heard most often in Iraq was about our Rules of Engagement .  The rules that say when we could fire and, mostly...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

The VA Has a Big Problem No One Talks About

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Every few months another scandal breaks out at the Veterans Administration.   Outrage ensues.   Politicians pound podiums and pretend t...
Saturday, October 3, 2015

Who Cares for Our Veterans?

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When I was in Iraq, I wrote about many soldiers under the title of “Who Fights Our Wars?” Many people write and talk about VeteransAdm...