WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! **************************************************************** SOLDIERS FOR THE TRUTH "DEFENDING AMERICA NEWSLETTER" 21 June 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 from the President HOT BUTTONS! Hack's Column: Korea: Lessons Of a War Not Learned "From my Position" -- On the way!" Article 1 - Kuwaiti Commemoration of the Gulf War Big Picture: Article 2 - Anthrax Fiasco Continues Article 3 -- Flag Officers Net Jetliners In New Defense Bills Voices from the Field: Article 4 -- Political Correctness - a Reader response Article 5 - Msgt Neil is not alone! Article 6 - Women in the Military Article 7 - Training is also a Unit Responsibility Article 8 -- Veterans' Health -- PROSTATE CANCER Article 9 -- Tale of a Stolen Flag G.I Humor: Article 10 -- The Essentials of Combat Medal of Honor: Article 11 -- JOHNSON, OSCAR G., Italy 1944 =============================================================== SITREP: 1. Main topics: 1) Korea and the Gulf 2) Luxuries for our Princes 3) Anthrax 4) Readiness/Training 5) Healthcare 2. Future targets: a) Leadership -- veterans speak out about your experiences b) Training c) Political correctness 3. HOT BUTTONS: !!! Please continue your financial support for us, so we can grow and become an even stronger voice for all of you. Remember, the Pentagon budget is over 290 billion, and organizations like AUSA work with budgets in the 20 million-range. Currently we are looking at about 15k but need a base of 100k to be dangerous. !!! 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His next mistake was to believe the air generals who assured him that flying machines would stop the invading North Koreans. Granted, airplanes pummeled Korea from one end to the other, but bombs weren't what stopped the Reds. Their steamroller was halted by determined mud soldiers behind rifles and machine guns, gallantly dug in along a tiny scrap of what was left of South Korea, the Pusan Perimeter. This week, on the 50th anniversary of the Korean War, we honor those who fought there and remember the 33,686 American warriors who were killed in action during that three-year-long bloodbath. Back in those heady days, the United States was the only superpower on the block, and it rushed a bunch of our young boys -- as green and ill-prepared for war as the tanks they rode in on -- off to defend a country most Americans couldn't find on a map. The brass thought the American flag and the presence of GI Joe would turn the Red aggressor around. Truth to tell, Gen. MacArthur's inept intell folks actually believed that when the enemy saw the Red, White and Blue on top of our wheezing tanks, they'd toss down their weapons and flee in panic. Instead, our pathetically trained troops, who would've had a hard time guarding a PX in downtown Tokyo, came close to being bulldozed into the sea by what the Pentagon then rated as a third-class force. Yes, the brass back in 1950 were wrong about what air power could do. Yes, our experts back in 1950 failed to understand the enemy. Yes, our forces back in 1950 were not trained hard and disciplined enough, nor was their state of readiness up to slugging it out with a mean and nasty foe. Have we learned anything from the nightmare of Korea? Nope. Maybe that's why it's called "The Forgotten War" -- because no one on high really wants to remember what went down there. Maybe that's why the same mistakes made in Korea were repeated in Vietnam. And repeated again during the Gulf War, where fortunately for our first-to-go paratroopers and Marines, Saddam Hussein twisted his moustache and did TV while Stormin' Norman used the time to build a massive force right in front of Iraqi bunkers. An awesome hammer that set a new record in war-winning. The most recent go-around with Serbia was more of the same. A tiny, 1970s-equipped Serbian army outfoxed the mighty air power of NATO -- which succeeded only in knocking out a dozen Serb tanks at a cost of about a half-billion bucks a vehicle. Of course, the Pentagon went into denial mode and lied about what happened at the end of three out of four of these exercises. The generals and flacks spun: "We stopped 'em cold." "We won all the battles." "Air power won our first war." At almost 70, I am a military cynic, convinced that the powers that be are dead set on never learning anything useful from the past. I console myself that the cheaters usually get caught out in the end, but that doesn't make us any smarter the next time around. Or bring back the dead. If Korea exploded all over again this week and a million zealots came screaming South, we'd be in even worse shape than we were in 1950. At least then we had battle-trained officers and noncoms who were as tough as one-dollar steaks, vets from World War II with the combat savvy to turn tenderfoot teens into warriors. Then, too, social experiments and low standards hadn't destroyed the most essential components of combat effectiveness -- discipline, unit cohesion and teamwork. Factors that forge THE BROTHERHOOD that makes the impossible easy. And, back then, our military wasn't spread around the world, near broken from saving all those global villages. We're lucky the North and South Korean presidents are hugging and kissing like two long-separated brothers at a family reunion. Thanks to President Clinton and Secretary of Defense Cohen, it would be mission impossible to save South Korea again today. *** 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 1 - "From my Position" -- On the way!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kuwaiti Commemoration of the Gulf War ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By R. W. Zimmermann President SFTT 06/19/00 Last week, my friend Roger Charles sent me a message that had originated in the Kuwaiti Information Office. Reading it, I suspected the piece came from the same place that artfully scripted the story of the Kuwaiti babies, killed in the incubators by the bloodthirsty Iraqis. The letter stated that "as part of our efforts to commemorate the Gulf War, we would like to post on our web page a collection of excerpts from essays written about personal experiences that people had during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.we are interested in responses from citizens, policy makers, academics, and others." The list didn't include soldiers, the guys who had made this liberation business possible! As a Gulf veteran and at the great peril of again appearing politically incorrect, I attempted to answer the battery of six questions. You can forward the answers to the Kuwaitis if you like. Where were you on 2 August 1990? How did you hear the news? I sat in a German "Gasthaus," slamming a few "brewskies" in the best of Spearhead traditions when one of the troops mentioned the invasion. We all asked: "where in the hell is this place anyway?" Consensus: No be a big deal - the New York City police could easily trash the Iraqis. Tell us about your feelings when Iraq invaded Kuwait? Served the sheiks right for driving up the oil prices. Maybe this conflict would be a good incentive for us to develop alternative fuels. Then we'd be able to dictate the prices to them -- you can't drink oil! What a great opportunity to try out that M1 Abrams without the safety restrictions in D-land. How did the Invasion of Kuwait affect you? It really ticked me off! Had to cut short my romantic Thanksgiving weekend that I spent with my bride in Heidelberg. I promised myself to take it out on all these Mid-Eastern critters that had just spoiled my weekend. I returned to Gelnhausen with a crappy attitude and participated in senseless meeting marathons that did almost nothing to prepare us to go to war. All the "big cheeses" seemed to volunteer to be the first in the crisis zone. Quote by the brigade commander: "You miss out on this war and your career is shot!" In what way did the occupation of Kuwait change your attitudes toward family, work, country etc.?) Family became more important than ever. I sensed that we Americans were becoming mercenaries for the rich sheiks. They were evacuating their families and their wealth to America, while we liberated them from the awful Iraqis. Worst of all, General Schwarzkopf and the political handlers forced us to ingratiate with our host/owners, by not officially referring to Christian beliefs such as Christmas or openly displaying the crucifix or Star of David, the very religious symbols America guaranteed as basic freedoms. What did the liberation of Kuwait mean to you? After a Lebanese-style fireworks demonstration, with every Kuwaiti firing their AK-47's into the oil smoke blackened skies, things quickly returned to normal. The Sheiks were back in power and many business opportunities arose for our greedy military contractors. Are there any unique experiences during the occupation/liberation of Kuwait that you would like to share? I remember the fine impression I got of our Kuwaiti allies when entering Kuwait City from the north on Highway 8. A friend and I found a small tank assembly area of Kuwaiti T 72-type tanks (actually a Yugoslavian variant). The tanks were abandoned but fully uploaded with ammo and live chickens. Behind each tank was a Bedouin tent. In it, we found loaded assault rifles, some with the safeties off and.Hash pipes. When I finally found an armed Kuwaiti troop about 5 kilometers south, he told me not to worry about security but to join the victory celebrations. I politely refused (maybe not so polite) and returned to our base camp, determined not to risk any of our troops foolishly in this mercenary war. The Gulf War wasn't the liberation of Europe in WWII. Besides making me a bit cynical and critical of our national strategy, it convinced me that we can't leave war and grand strategy to a few elitist know-it-alls. Today, we are still at war with Iraq, and even the thousands of glittery little medals we received from the Gulf Kingdoms won't alleviate the medical problems of our Gulf War veterans. Maybe Kuwait's sheiks could pitch in a little. Zimm © R.W. Zimmermann, LandserUSA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================================================ ARTICLE 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anthrax Fiasco Continues ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ed.: AP release from the Detroit News, 14 June 2000. ANOTHER bailout for BioPort, the producer of the Anthrax vaccine after taxpayers got clobbered for $ 45 million already! I guess more money is needed to support BioPort's useless construction projects, outrageous bonuses for their executives and propaganda material to convince us that rogue countries and the Anti-Christ are planning surprise Anthrax attacks on our troops. Please help me out - aren't North and South Korea talking conflict resolution, and couldn't we use some of this wasted money to pay for veteran's health care? I think it's time for another wave of letters to our political representatives to STOP this political and economic insanity. ********************************************************************** Detroit News, June 14, 2000 By Associated Press. LANSING -- A financially troubled lab serving as the sole-source supplier of the anthrax vaccine to the military expects to finalize within days a new contract with the Defense Department, according to a newspaper report. BioPort Corp. officials said the contract would help the company cover costs related to a lengthy, continuing U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval process of BioPort's renovated anthrax vaccine labs. The contract's payout -- $2 million to $2.5 million a month for an unspecified amount of time -- would be the second Pentagon bailout in a year for the company bought from the state in 1998. "This isn't extraordinary relief," said Fuad El-Hibri, BioPort's co-owner and its chief executive. BioPort cannot sell any new anthrax vaccine -- a protection against biological warfare -- without the FDA's blessings. The FDA would not say when it might complete the certification process, which began last August. "Taxpayers have already invested some $45 million propping up BioPort," said Rep. Walter Jones, R-North Carolina. "The way this whole thing has been handled between the Department of Defense and BioPort raises a lot of questions." In 1998, Defense Secretary William Cohen ordered all active duty and reserve troops to get the shots, starting with soldiers most likely to encounter biological warfare overseas. Anthrax is a deadly biological agent that defense officials believe poses a threat to tens of thousands of U.S. troops stationed in the Middle East and South Korea. The Pentagon believes Iraq and other nations hostile to the United States have produced anthrax weapons. The vaccine has come under increasing scrutiny from lawmakers as soldiers have expressed concerns about taking the six-shot regimen. Complaints included fevers, muscle pain and dizziness. Reserve and National Guard pilots have said that morale was plummeting and colleagues would resign rather than take the vaccine. But Pentagon and FDA officials have said repeatedly the vaccine is safe and effective. FDA officials also say there is no basis for demoting the approved vaccine to an investigational drug category. Under BioPort's initial contract with the Defense Department, the company sold the vaccine for $2.26 or $4.36 per dose, depending on the year. The price jumped to $10.64 per dose last August as part of a package that raised the Pentagon's contract with BioPort by $24 million, including an $18-million cash advance to help the company stay afloat. Despite the larger contract, BioPort officials envision a possible $18-million cash shortfall for 2000, according to an internal Defense Department audit completed in March. The audit drew attention to what inspectors considered questionable spending at BioPort, including $1.1 million on office furniture, parking-lot paving and other renovations that could have been postponed until the company was in better financial shape. Auditors also questioned $1.28 million in projected bonus for senior management. 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