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Report: Army ordering injured soldiers to Iraq
Mike Sheehan
Published: Monday March 12, 2007
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The U.S. Army is ordering soldiers at Fort Benning classified as "medically unfit to fight" to war in Iraq, Salon reports, asking aloud if it is an "isolated incident or a trend."
"As the military scrambles to pour more soldiers into Iraq," writes Mark Benjamin for Salon, "a unit of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Ga., is deploying troops with serious injuries and other medical problems, including GIs who doctors have said are medically unfit for battle. Some are too injured to wear their body armor, according to medical records."
Benjamin cites recent cases of troops at Fort Benning whose medical profiles were "downgraded ... without even a medical exam, in order to deploy them to Iraq."
In fact, writes Benjamin, some of the affected soldiers he interviewed "are already gone," with others set to fly to Iraq within a week. 3rd Infantry Division officials, according to Benjamin, deny the claims.
One veterans activist expressed his concerns about the moves involving medically unfit troops and thinks that "the possibility that physical profiles may have been altered improperly has the makings of a scandal," writes Benjamin.
"It smacks of an overstretched military that is in crisis mode to get people onto the battlefield," Benjamin quotes the activist.
Excerpts from the Salon article, available in full here after viewing an advertisement, follow...
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Eight soldiers who were at the Feb. 15 meeting say they were summoned to the troop medical clinic at 6:30 in the morning and lined up to meet with division surgeon Lt. Col. George Appenzeller, who had arrived from Fort Stewart, Ga., and Capt. Aaron K. Starbuck, brigade surgeon at Fort Benning. The soldiers described having a cursory discussion of their profiles, with no physical exam or extensive review of medical files. They say Appenzeller and Starbuck seemed focused on downplaying their physical problems. "This guy was changing people's profiles left and right," said a captain who injured his back during his last tour in Iraq and was ordered to Iraq after the Feb. 15 review.
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In direct contradiction to the account given by the soldiers, Appenzeller said physical examinations were conducted and that he had a robust medical team there working with him, which is how they managed to complete 75 reviews in one day. Appenzeller denied that the plan was to find more warm bodies for the surge into Baghdad, as did Col. Wayne W. Grigsby Jr., the brigade commander. Grigsby said he is under "no pressure" to find soldiers, regardless of health, to make his unit look fit. The health and welfare of his soldiers are a top priority, said Grigsby, because [the soldiers] are "our most important resource, perhaps the most important resource we have in this country."
Grigsby said he does not know how many injured soldiers are in his ranks. But he insisted that it is not unusual to deploy troops with physical limitations so long as he can place them in safe jobs when they get there. "They can be productive and safe in Iraq," Grigsby said.
The injured soldiers interviewed by Salon, however, expressed considerable worry about going to Iraq with physical deficits because it could endanger them or their fellow soldiers. Some were injured on previous combat tours. Some of their ills are painful conditions from training accidents or, among relatively older troops, degenerative problems like back injuries or blown-out knees. Some of the soldiers have been in the Army for decades.
And while Grigsby, the brigade commander, says he is under no pressure to find troops, it is hard to imagine there is not some desperation behind the decision to deploy some of the sick soldiers.
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| zimmie |
The bio of the rawstory.com news editor taken from their own site...
Larisa does not use her actual surname, instead using her patronymic as a pen name in honor of her father. She speaks Russian fluently, plays chess like a true Rusky, is obsessed with anagrams and ciphers, and is active (loud) in civil and human rights issues. Larisa is also a staunch advocate for patients' rights, something she knows a great deal about herself having a chronic illness. Larisa has Mixed Connective Tissues Disease (MCTD) which is a form of Lupus and/or Scleroderma (which only took about eight years to diagnose thanks to HMOs). So cut her some slack when her meds make her a bit batty. |
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| Ass Boil |
Quote: Originally posted by zimmie
The bio of the rawstory.com news editor taken from their own site...
Larisa does not use her actual surname, instead using her patronymic as a pen name in honor of her father. She speaks Russian fluently, plays chess like a true Rusky, is obsessed with anagrams and ciphers, and is active (loud) in civil and human rights issues. Larisa is also a staunch advocate for patients' rights, something she knows a great deal about herself having a chronic illness. Larisa has Mixed Connective Tissues Disease (MCTD) which is a form of Lupus and/or Scleroderma (which only took about eight years to diagnose thanks to HMOs). So cut her some slack when her meds make her a bit batty. |
Wow. Nice work Sherlock Holmes.....
Maybe you can use your amazing powers of deduction to search for your real age and why you lie about serving in the military? |
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| elroyjonz |
| Zimmie lied about serving in the military? |
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| Ass Boil |
Quote: Originally posted by elroyjonz
Zimmie lied about serving in the military? |
Apparently so.
He claimed that he served from 83-86. I checked his profile, which says he was born in 1980, which would make him 3 years old when he served. But instead of admitting that he simply lied about his age in his profile like an internet predator, he refused to say which was the lie - his age or his claim that he served. After more questioning, including by many of those here who DID serve, the consensus seems to be that zimmie has made up the entire story.
It is documented in this thread:
http://www.sternfannetwork.com/foru...threadid=216518
It makes for an entertaining read because zimmie is such a fucking retard. |
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| Glenda Yenta |
| That's so sad. He could have at least done a token service like W. |
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| Fdubya247 |
Quote: Originally posted by Glenda Yenta
That's so sad. He could have at least done a token service like W. |
He'd rather serve in the Cockroach Army...no hard work or even THINKING required. |
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| elroyjonz |
| When people are caught in an obvious lie, and they still deny the truth, thats pretty sad. If Zim did serve his country, you would think that he would be smart enough to get his birthdate correct. I find it amusing when someone claims to have 1st hand knowledge just to win an argument. |
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| armyofbees |
Quote: Originally posted by zimmie
The bio of the rawstory.com news editor taken from their own site...
Larisa does not use her actual surname, instead using her patronymic as a pen name in honor of her father. She speaks Russian fluently, plays chess like a true Rusky, is obsessed with anagrams and ciphers, and is active (loud) in civil and human rights issues. Larisa is also a staunch advocate for patients' rights, something she knows a great deal about herself having a chronic illness. Larisa has Mixed Connective Tissues Disease (MCTD) which is a form of Lupus and/or Scleroderma (which only took about eight years to diagnose thanks to HMOs). So cut her some slack when her meds make her a bit batty. |
so an ad hominum attack on the editor of the website where this was published is supposed to nullify this story? |
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| elroyjonz |
Quote: Originally posted by armyofbees
so an ad hominum attack on the editor of the website where this was published is supposed to nullify this story? |
A few soldiers not wanting to return to war is not a story. |
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