WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! ***************************************************************** SOLDIERS FOR THE TRUTH "DEFENDING AMERICA NEWSLETTER" 19 April 2000 "When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen." General George Washington, New York Legislature, 1775 Soldiers For The Truth Foundation, PO Box 63840, Colorado Springs, CO 80962-3840 HTTP://WWW.SFTT.ORG ***************************************************************** TABLE OF CONTENTS SITREP Hack's Column: Article 1 -- Rest in Peace, Billy, You Earned It! "From my Position" -- On the way!" Article 2 -- The Truth can't be suppressed forever! Big Picture: Article 3 - West Point censors WWII Vet Article 4 -- Veterans Group accuses VA Secretary Article 5 -- Chesty' Puller Didn't Have Right Image By Today's Standards "VOICE OF THE GRUNT" Article 6 -- V-22 OSPREY Article 7 -- Joint and Reserve Component Integration - making Military Intelligence work Article 8 - Retention, gays, and the end of the world as we know it Article 9 -- Another letter from Kosovo Article 10 - More reflections on our Greatest Generation G.I Humor: Article 11 -- A conclusive study on leadership? Medal of Honor: Article 12 -- *ADAMS, WILLIAM E, Vietnam 1971 =============================================================== SITREP: 1. This week's main topics: 1) Army/Military Leadership crisis 2) Censorship at West Point 3) Denial of Agent Orange and vet diabetes linkage 4) Reflections on the Greatest Generation. 2. Things we are looking for: a. Leadership crisis in the Army - do the other services experience similar conditions? b. Do senior leaders meet the standards they are enforcing? 3. WEB VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!!! Thanks for all the volunteers. Almost 100 people came forward. The Empire's Tech Droid, Woody Groton is working out the details for future offensive operations. 4. Thanks for the information and intelligence contributions. You, our readers and volunteers are the SFTT ground troops and our eyes and ears! You provide the essential leads that determine where we focus our attention! 5. We still need your financial support to sustain operations. THANKS to all of you who have responded to our call to financial arms so far! A fellow from Colorado donated $ 500.00 -- Thanks a lot for the help to get us off the beach and moving towards our objectives. We will accept contributions up to a million bucks to keep up the pressure on the perfumed princes and entrenched bureaucrats in the Pentagon who are finally admitting that all is not well! Methods of Support Check or Money order: Send to and make payable to: Soldiers For The Truth Foundation, PO Box 63840, Colorado Springs, CO 80962-3840. Credit card donation option via Website is still in the works for our website - www.sftt.org. REMINDER: Your donation is tax deductible! SFTT is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit educational foundation, IRS # 31-1592564. If you send us an E-MAIL address with your donation we can immediately mail you a RECEIPT!!!! 6. SFTT Website. Please check out our updates, i.e. objectives, mission statement, etc. If you didn't get the complete newsletter, you can find it archived on the website. http://www.sftt.org Until next week let' s make contact - break through -- and exploit! R.W. Zimmermann President SFTT [EMAIL PROTECTED] =============================================================== ARTICLE 1 - Defending America ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rest in Peace, Billy, You Earned It Billy Scott, age 52, is dead. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By David H. Hackworth The docs down South Carolina way say Billy died as a result of wading through too much Agent Orange. You know, that poison the Pentagon and those other liars at the VA said was less harmful than raindrops. Yet another casualty from that dumb, dumb war that will probably burn in our souls and our memories until all Vietnam vets, their children and their children's children are dead. Billy was a deeply religious, 20-year-old boy back in '69 when I met him. A jewel. A warm, wonderful human being who'd cut his teeth on "thou shall not kill." When he was drafted for that bad war, he registered as a conscientious objector -- he was willing to do his duty and serve his country, but not as a trigger-puller. In Vietnam, Billy carried a medical bag rather than a rifle, and although he seemed no taller than a fire hydrant and not much heavier than a down pillow, he was all stout heart, braver than the bravest. He was a combat medic in my Hardcore Recondo Battalion (4/39th Infantry) down in the Mekong Delta, and he loved and was dedicated to the soldiers he was charged to care for. After his first week with the Hardcore Battalion, Billy became a quiet legend. On the battlefield, he was everywhere. When one of his boys went down, he always somehow got to him. Neither land mines, bullets nor a bunker full of enemy machine guns spitting out green death could stop him. When that dreaded cry of "Medic" sounded, you could count on Billy -- he always got there. Stopping the bleeding, preventing shock, comforting the wounded with that soft, gentle South Carolina drawl: "Yuh'll be all right, ol' buddy. Jus' lay back heah in muh arms and let Billy look after you." All the while bullets would be cutting the grass around "Little Billy," as we called him. He never flinched, just did his sacred duty. On March 13, 1969, the night Capt. Eugene R. Spiegle died along with two other Delta Company soldiers -- the same hellacious night 19 other soldiers were cut up by bullets and shrapnel -- Billy was the only "Doc" with his besieged and surrounded unit, and once again he did his thing. Pumping life into broken teen-age bodies. Keeping his boys alive. Ignoring the incoming stuff. Crawling, running, doing whatever had to be done, always exposed to enemy fire. When Capt. Spiegle took a chestful of bullets, Billy kept him alive by performing a tracheotomy with his pocketknife in the dark while under attack. Spiegle almost bit off one of Billy's fingers while he was clearing the fallen captain's blocked airways. As Billy patched up his skipper, a Viet Cong soldier fired a full magazine of AK-47 slugs at him -- but somehow missed. Someone, something besides Lady Luck, had to have been watching over Billy as he looked after his particular flock of the young men who do the dying in the horror shows our so-called civilized world calls conflicts. Combat medics are the most valiant Band of Brothers ever to grace a battlefield. They're usually the most visible targets -- out in the open on the same ground where their patients just got hit. Medics don't wait for a miracle to pull the wounded to a safe shelter -- they are the miracle that pulls, slides, drags and packs shattered bodies out of danger. And they risk their lives performing other miracles as well -- relieving pain, administering morphine and getting IVs going to pump life back into broken fighters. Selfless and serving beyond good sense, countless medics have died in the line of duty in all our wars, trying to save not just their buddies but every boy fallen during battle. "Little Billy" was one of the best of the best of the most courageous men I've known on the killing field, and I know I speak for all the Hardcore soldiers whom Billy touched. We loved his gentle ways, his lion heart, his total, selfless dedication to his soldier brothers. I'm sure there's a special place in heaven for combat medics. Bet a buck, Billy has a front-and-center seat. He damn-well earned it. *** Http://www.hackworth.com is the address of David Hackworth's home page. Sign in for the free weekly Defending America column at his Web site. Send mail to P.O. Box 5210, Greenwich, CT 06831. © 2000 David H. Hackworth Distributed by King Features Syndicate Inc. ================================================== ARTICLE 2 - "From my Position" -- On the way!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Truth can't be suppressed forever! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By R.W. Zimmermann President SFTT 04/19/00 They are still looking for the traitor at Ft. Leavenworth who leaked the latest leadership study to the Washington Post and into the cyber world. The study confirms to the brass and the world that the Army has a leadership crisis and that junior officers are bailing out in droves. Since a cover-up didn't succeed, what's the brass' answer? Commission another blue ribbon panel study to verify what's common knowledge. Interim Army response: "The leadership of the Army is taking this serious." At the same time the Army's spokesman reemphasized, "I've been in the Army for 25 years and I have heard this sort of thing before!" Man, are they ever hard of hearing! As I stressed in my last two articles on leadership, the crisis we are just now discovering has been suppressed for over twenty years. The commissars responsible for the cover-up did a fine job "buying" loyalty with empty slogans of greatness and appeasing the foot folk with cheap medals and certificates. There is a distinct difference between "bought" loyalty and earned loyalty. While earned loyalty, like a good marriage endures hard times, "bought" loyalty evaporates when you can't produce more gimmicks. Tired of the trinkets, our soldiers demand real solutions and we are shy of a small rebellion. As Thomas Jefferson once said, small rebellions are healthy as long as they result in positive change. The aim of the rebellion in the Army must be to get rid of incompetent leadership before we pay the price in military defeat and blood. So what changes are needed? First, all civilian offices with impact on military decisions must be reformed. Get rid of incompetents without a clue what an Army does. We can't afford any more Army Secretaries like Togo West and Louis Caldera. Both couldn't tell the difference between an M1 tank and a mobile kitchen trailer. Louis Caldera truly impressed me when he visited Ft. Carson to present the Expert Infantrymen Badge (EIB). Here was the Secretary of the Army presenting the badges, strictly reserved for male infantry soldiers and thanked "the brave men and WOMEN for a great job." Some perfumed prince could have told him that only infantrymen can win the award. But the princes were more concerned about laughing at every stupid joke the Secretary was telling and making sure that every troop on Ft. Carson attended the show, at the cost of many cancelled training events. The second clean sweep must affect Generals and senior Colonels. It's disgusting to see how few of them understand what is going on. Focused on promotions and not the mission, their motto is "it's not what you know, but who you know!" Worst of all, they swallow and support any ludicrous social engineering program to get ahead. This spirit of obedience was well personified in General Reimer's "Care Bear" leadership. Reimer's legacy was built on community outreach programs, mounted on RV's, money-sucking community centers, inspection programs for privately owned vehicles and plastic value cards added to the dog tags of our soldiers. The third sweep must occur in politics. Get rid of the senators and congressmen that tell you that the average citizen can't comprehend the complexities of national defense and recommend you leave the answers to the experts. Tell these politicians to explain the issues in simple terms. If they can't they obviously don't have a clue themselves or are bought off by the money grubbing military industrial complex. Yesterday, in my local paper, Senator Wayne Allard of Colorado was quoted that he "likened military retirees to just components of a larger system," while Representative Hefley was concerned that we don't have any money for healthcare. At the same time, Messrs. Allard and Hefley are strong proponents for the rebirth of Star wars weaponry because these unproven but expensive weapons bring money to Colorado Springs contractors. And how do we launch the sweeping reform? Elect small business leaders, educated citizens, ex soldiers with common sense to political office. Rebuild the senior leadership levels and then push the power back down into the services' middle management. I bet we can eliminate a hundred Generals in the Army alone and spend the money on better pay and benefits for our troops and junior leaders on the ground. We can reinvent the pioneer spirit and that made this country great. Maybe there is a great opportunity in that small rebellion brewing in the Army's ranks. All it takes is leadership and courage to act. The Leavenworth leak could have a tremendously positive impact after all! Zimm © R.W. Zimmermann, LandserUSA President SFTT [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================================================== ARTICLE 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ West Point censors WWII Vet - Luncheon speech canceled due to criticism of women in combat ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ed.: A sad case of censorship at West Point. Political correctness takes precedence over an opportunity to hear a WWII vets experiences in combat. Reason: The vet had made critical remarks about women in combat roles. What makes this incident so regretful is that it confirms a pattern of censoring by Army leadership to achieve total political compliance. Many of us remember the recent 'squelching' of doctrine critical remarks by Armor School commander Major General B.B. Bell. The Army's official response voiced through LTC Bill Harkley: " It's accurate and we did the right thing!" On the positive side: a gutsy cadet stood up to the injustice and leaked the incident! On the negative side: more good reason for the retention problem of junior officers and experienced NonComs - soldier values and free speech killed on the doorsteps of our military academies!!! First published by World Net Daily, Friday, April 14, 2000. *********************************************************************** By Jon E. Dougherty An officer at the United States Military Academy at West Point canceled a luncheon where a World War II combat veteran had been scheduled to speak to cadets, because comments the vet made at an earlier function -- comments critical of women in the military -- were deemed inappropriate, according to an academy source who contacted WorldNetDaily. A cadet at the New York-based academy, who requested anonymity, provided documents written Mar. 28 detailing the chain of events. According to the report, the veteran -- who made four combat jumps during WWII -- was originally scheduled to address the cadet body to provide insight into and discussion of life in a combat zone. However, the report said, after the vet made what the academy officer considered inappropriate remarks about women serving in the military, the luncheon was cancelled and the vet was permitted to speak only to a small group of cadets. Specifically, said the document -- an "after action" report of sorts -- the vet questioned the logic of women who even wanted a combat role, and said female officers would never be afforded the same respect by their troops as male officers. The vet further explained that "he would feel overprotective of a female" in a combat situation and "would therefore be unable to fight effectively." According to the report, the vet also "expressed his opinion that issues of harassment rarely exist, and that they are merely 'created.'" Maj. James E. Whaley III, chief of the Public Information Branch at West Point, confirmed the report as authentic to WorldNetDaily. "The memorandum is an internal educational document posted on an internal web site," he said. "It is used to educate cadets on leadership challenges in today's Army. We use real life issues to help cadets grow as future leaders in the Army," he added. A cadet instructor reportedly asked the veteran for comments after he and other veterans sat in on a company "commandant's hour class" entitled, "Creating a Climate Free of Sexual Harassment." The report said that shortly after the vet made his comments -- which "stirred mixed emotions within the first-class cadets" of an unspecified company, his grandson -- a cadet at the academy -- wrote to the first-class cadets stating he would not apologize for "his grandfather's comments." The cadet grandson explained that "'while my grandfather's words may have stung, everyone is entitled to their own opinion ... but that [first-class cadets] had better think about the value in his words.'" (Emphasis contained in the report document.) The after-action report said the cadet sent the message only after "consulting a couple of cadets, all of whom shared the same perspective on the issue" in an attempt to emphasize the value of his grandfather's experience and "respect [his] opinions as personal beliefs." But that message generated more controversy, said the report. Though "all agreed" that the cadet's grandfather "had much to offer in terms of combat experience and certainly deserved to be treated with utmost respect," the message's tone disturbed others who were upset by the cadet's "demand that others find value in statements which are inconsistent with current Army policy." The report went on to say that four other cadets eventually approached the veteran's grandson "and asked him to ensure that his grandfather refrain from raising the subject of gender integration (again) at the dine-in" luncheon. The officer who ultimately canceled the veteran addresses, a major who was not identified in the documents, had been on leave during the incident. When he returned a few days later, the report said, he received "an email message from a cadet in the company addressing the issue at hand" and "reinforcing the final request that [the cadet's grandfather] not repeat his previous statements ... at the dining-in." After speaking to the cadet grandson, the report said, the major "decided to cancel the dining-in, explaining that he could not allow someone to speak at the dining-in who had already expressed many views inconsistent with the Seven Army Values." The cadet's grandfather "did speak about his combat experiences" in a company day room "immediately following" the lunch "for anyone who cared to attend." The report said the cadet grandson "stated his belief that a large part of the issues ... resulted from miscommunication," adding that he felt if "he had more clearly communicated his understanding that his grandfather's beliefs were not applicable in today's Army," the dine-in cancellation could have been "averted." The document also concluded, "If the events in this company reflect the Corps as a whole, then we can conclude that the integration of women into the Army is still a controversial issue with many cadets. "Leaders at all levels are encouraged to emphasize the issue of gender integration and equality," the report added. ============================================================== ARTICLE 4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Veterans Group Accuses VA Secretary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ed.: After a less than bland performance as Secretary of the Army and a series of accusations of exploiting executive privileges, Togo West once more seems to have used his powers to do the wrong thing! Maybe he thought it was better to avoid the linkage between Agent Orange and diabetes in our Vietnam veterans to save government money for other useless scams. One more breach of faith. ************************************************************************ The Associated Press DENVER (AP) - Veterans Affairs Secretary Togo West rejected the recommendation of a task force that Vietnam War soldiers who developed diabetes after being exposed to Agent Orange should be compensated, The Denver Post reported Saturday. The newspaper said it had obtained documents showing the VA's Agent Orange Task Force had recommended honoring the claims, but West decided more research was needed. ``It was a deliberately deleterious action by the secretary. He is the politico and he is standing in the way,'' said Rick Weidman, director of government relations for the Vietnam Veterans of America. His group says West is siding with cost-cutters. Jim Bensen, a spokesman for West, said the secretary was following the law when he sent the issue back for ``a more comprehensive look at all the evidence.'' About 19 million gallons of Agent Orange and other chemicals were used to defoliate trees in the jungles of Vietnam beginning in 1962. Their use was stopped in 1971, two years after studies first linked Agent Orange to birth defects in laboratory animals. VA files obtained by The Post indicate the Agent Orange Task Force unanimously recommended on April 30, 1999, that diabetes be added to the list of ailments linked to Agent Orange. Chaired by Dr. Kenneth W. Kizer, then the VA's undersecretary for health, the panel said in its report that it had reached its conclusion after four meetings of a working group and ``careful deliberation.'' Both Kizer and Joe Thompson, who runs the VA benefits program, separately concurred with the task force findings and urged West to list diabetes. Thompson predicted in a May 5, 1999, memo to West that the task force finding ``will reverberate throughout the VA and our stakeholder community.'' In a June 17, 1999, memorandum to Kizer, West declared that ``a number of unresolved issues prevent me from making a fully informed determination regarding the task force's recommendation that I establish a presumption of service connection for diabetes.'' The Air Force in March announced that it had found the ``strongest evidence to date'' that exposure to Agent Orange is linked to diabetes. The National Academy of Sciences then said it was reviewing the Air Force study and would report to Veterans Affairs. At the time, Veterans Affairs said a decision on whether diabetes will be linked to Agent Orange exposure would be made after a federal review of another study on dioxin and diabetes, due to be completed in May. The law governing Agent Orange does not require researchers to establish a causal relationship between exposure and diabetes for medical claims to be paid. 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