http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3200497Oh my.
The heart is touched, by the solicitude the primitives hold for our military people.
Nah, it's just another thing to blame on George Bush, nothing more than that.
unhappycamper DU Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 08:44 AM
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Vt. soldiers can’t get home from Iraq (xpost from Veterans)
By Erin Kelly - Gannett News Service
Posted : Thursday Apr 24, 2008 6:02:43 EDT
WASHINGTON — Vermont soldiers who have completed their tours of duty in Iraq cannot get home because of flight delays caused in part by the recent bankruptcy of ATA Airlines, the Vermont congressional delegation said Wednesday.
Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders and Rep. Peter Welch wrote to the Pentagon this week to try to help two Vermont soldiers whose parents contacted the lawmakers about their sons’ plight. The soldiers, whose names the lawmakers did not disclose for privacy reasons, are stuck in Baghdad.
“After completing their service to our country overseas, our men and women deserve a safe return home without delays,†the delegation wrote Tuesday in a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
The delays are partly the result of ATA Airlines’ announcement early this month that it was discontinuing service and filing for bankruptcy. The military had hired ATA Airlines to ferry troops between the U.S. and overseas bases. The Indianapolis-based airline had been contracted to fly 70 military charters through September, which Air Force Times reported earlier this month.
Still, the Vermont lawmakers said the Pentagon should be doing more to help service men and women find alternative flights home despite ATA’s woes and other bankruptcies and maintenance problems that have hit the airline industry in recent weeks. The transportation mess reportedly has delayed scores of U.S. soldiers from returning home from Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait.
Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/04/ap_vermontsoldier... /
uhc observation: I doubt there was a problem getting the soldiers there. If your private airline has problems, you can't get them home? Gimmea****inbreak.
genie_weenie (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 09:13 AM
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1. Holy ****, how much money have they been given through the DoD money making human grinding machine? Now they file for protection and abandon guys in the warzone.
How much does this Criminal Regime get away with? Thousands of Lives and Trillions of dollars sacrificed...
Yeah, the primitives don't care about the soldiers; the primitives care about exhibiting BDS.
QuestionAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 09:28 AM
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2. doesn't the military have some of their own transport jets?
this is more ****ed up every day.
GloriaSmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 09:29 AM
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3. wow. this story combines my two biggest soap box subjects:
The airline industry and the way soldiers are treated after they've completed their duty. I don't know whether to scream or cry.
You bring up a great point UHC. No one seems to have a problem getting the soldiers there.
genie_weenie (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 09:32 AM
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4. The DC Drunk should be given a Missing Movement Charge
Puke likes to run around in his spiffy Army looking C-in-C duds, here's something he should be handed -
Article 87: Any person subject to this chapter who through neglect or design misses the movement of a ship, aircraft, or unit with which he is required in the course of duty to move shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
Yeah, nothing more than the usual BDS.
