WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ARTICLE 8 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Stats look great - Reality hurts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ed.: A Grunt responds to the Army Secretary. Sounds like he has some facts! **************************************************************************** ** By an Army Grunt Secretary Caldera: With all due respect sir, your statement regarding Schwarzkopf's assessment of today's military is the exact reason I will not be reenlisting in the National Guard! You guys have no (zero, nil, zilch, nada) clue what the standard issue 11B gets in training today. While you fly around in your personal planes and helicopters, my squad does FTX's without blanks. We lay in dirt and mud and yell "bang-bang" to simulate rounds. When we go to the range, we get one chance to zero with 9 rounds. Then we get one practice round on the actual target range (which frequently doesn't work). Then we qualify. Check off the block for weapons qualification and you have a mission ready unit! Sir, it is all pencil whipped. I get less trigger time than I get JAG briefings. Our light-infantry battalion got 4 (four!!!!) slots for Ranger school last year. You mention education: I am a Citadel graduate who enlisted because I wanted to lead troops, not lead an endless shuffling of useless documentation. Does an education mean a better soldier? Not in my experience. We are out there to kill people and break things, not scare people with our diplomas. And your discussion of our air war showing "how well we can operate in tough, challenging condition" shows the utter lack of honesty that permeates the upper ranks. Newsflash: you guys didn't hit what you aimed at, and you didn't achieve any substantial military goals. This is an accepted fact by any objective and cursory examiner of the empirical evidence. I will get out soon. The social engineering, zero defect mentality, and "consideration of others" training has destroyed that which I was once proud of belonging to. Yes, you can provide the data to prove how strong we are. Please send me a copy of this venerable tome of pencil-whipped data. I will distribute it to fellow 11 Bravo's (Infantry Soldier) next time I'm at Ft. Polk and lack of funding for toilet paper causes me to use my cut up brown T-shirt for the task. ================================================================== ARTICLE 9 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Health Care Update: Sick Call? TRICARE Debt Collection, California "Quality of Life," How's TRICARE working for you?, and other goodies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ed: The elections are approaching -- make the candidates take notice of your voice! Strength is in the numbers. Help Pete to hit the high value targets. ************************************************************************ By Pete Peterson, Health Care and Veterans Affairs Editor Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://members.tripod.com/MHCRG We have unconfirmed reports out of an east coast Navy base that traditional "Sick Call" is no more. When one warrior walked into his local clinic, he was told he needed an appointment. We know TRICARE is an appointment-driven program, but we hadn't heard this one from a MTF before. If any of you active duty youngsters out there have any info regarding the demise of "sick call" at your duty stations, please let us know! On July 26, 2000, DOD established the position of TRICARE Debt Collection Assistance Officer (DCAO) worldwide. If you receive a notice from a collection agency or a negative credit report because of a TRICARE medical or dental bill, you should call or visit the nearest DCAO. To find the DCAO nearest to you, go to: <http://www.tricare.osd.mil/dcao/DCAO_Directory.doc>. Some military retirees have started sending Obits of retirees that have passed to their Congressmen and Senators. Grassroots retiree activists are using this tactic to drive home the point that they are dying off before receiving their promised and earned health care. Including the WWII generation, they're dropping at the rate of 1,600 a month or more. The House and Senate reconciled their differences on the FY01 Defense Appropriations Bills. There is a $963 million increase in military health care funds to pay for broadened pharmacy access for all Medicare eligible military retirees, and additional funds to boost reenlistment bonuses and enlistment incentives. The Authorization Bills aren't expected to be out of conference before September. For those who are asking how they can support the real military retiree Billboard Campaign, first go take a look at the one that just went up near Hattiesburg, MS: http://www.users.hbeark.com/~jharris/postcard.html>. If you want to help, there's an address on that page. Sen. Lott, this Board's for you. We do not approve of Veterans or Retiree Billboards that slam recruiting. We want quality people in a quality military. Recruiters are part of the military family, too. They're not the target - Washington is. Further, we can't support any group that has an anti vet or anti retiree bias or rhetoric. We must all work together or perish. The Air Force is looking for $30.7 million for new sports facilities at the Air Force Academy. Sen. Trent "Porky" Lott skimmed another $357 million to build another ship in Mississippi the Navy doesn't want. Meanwhile, DOD and BRAC continue to sever the lifeline with our military community. After building a new $11 million commissary, base exchange and hospital at Castle AFB near Merced, CA, BRAC and DOD put it on the Base Closure List. For a while, DOD and the Air Force made a big deal saying they were going to leave these 3 facilities open because of the thousands of retirees in the area. Then they shut it all down. They did the same thing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now it's Los Angeles ' turn. With cuts already made in MTFs, and "quality of life" facilities like commissaries and PX/BXs, they're going to shut down some more stores. By our numbers, the Marine Air Base at El Toro, CA serves vital active duty reserve units and a retired population of about 121,000. As with Castle AFB, they were going to leave these facilities open, but now they're not. More lies. Reps. Chris Cox and Loretta Sanchez from those districts haven't made a peep on these developments as active duty and retired families alike travel as far as Camp Pendleton to get in long lines for medical care. They at least thought they could shop closer to home and get that 20% savings DOD says commissaries give us. Guess again! We'd like to hear from active duty and retired families in the LA area about how bad their "quality of life" and health care is getting. We'd also like to hear from any active duty families out there on their TRICARE experiences, good or bad. We want to get a feel for how it's working at MTFs and also in remote areas. We know our recruiters and their families are in deep doo-doo when it comes to TRICARE Remote. Active duty families only, please. We know too well how it's working for retirees. Contact me at the email address above or snailmail me at the address on my web site. Congress / DOD: FIX TRICARE NOW! =====================================================================ARTICLE 10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GI HUMOR - New Element could change the way you think about Government ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ed.: More great insights into the life of large organizations. **************************************************************************** Investigators at a major research institution have discovered the heaviest element known to science. This startling new discovery has been tentatively named Administratium. This new element has no protons or electrons, thus having an atomic number of zero. It does, however, have 1 neutron, 125 assistant neutrons, 75 vice neutrons and 111 assistant vice neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by a force called morons, that are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since it has no electrons, Administratium is inert. However, it can be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. According to the discoverers, a minute amount of Administratium causes a single reaction to take over four-days to complete when it would normally take less than a second. Administratium has a normal half-life of approximately three years; it does not decay but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons, vice neutrons and assistant vice neutrons exchange places. In fact, an Administratium sample's mass will actually increase over time, since with each reorganization some of the morons inevitably become neutrons forming new isotopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to speculate that Administratium is spontaneously formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as "Critical Morass". You will know it when you see it. =============================================================== ARTICLE 11 - MEDAL OF HONOR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ed.: WWII, September 1943/Italy. Recently, we lost another great American Hero who continued to serve long after leaving the uniformed service. While reading this hero's Medal of Honor citation, visualize following him to his objective. If you know of any MOH recipient who is hospitalized or has passed recently, please write James H. Also, if you would like more info on MOH recipients and their stories, please email James H at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************************************************* LOGAN, JAMES M. Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, 36th Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Salerno, Italy, 9 September 1943. Entered service at: Luling, Tex. Birth: McNeil, Tex. G.O. No.: 54, 5 July 1944. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty in action involving actual conflict on 9 September 1943 in the vicinity of Salerno, Italy. As a rifleman of an infantry company, Sgt. Logan landed with the first wave of the assault echelon on the beaches of the Gulf of Salerno, and after his company had advanced 800 yards inland and taken positions along the forward bank of an irrigation canal, the enemy began a serious counterattack from positions along a rock wall which ran parallel with the canal about 200 yards further inland. Voluntarily exposing himself to the fire of a machinegun located along the rock wall, which sprayed the ground so close to him that he was splattered with dirt and rock splinters from the impact of the bullets, Sgt. Logan killed the first 3 Germans as they came through a gap in the wall. He then attacked the machinegun. As he dashed across the 200 yards of exposed terrain a withering stream of fire followed his advance. Reaching the wall, he crawled along the base, within easy reach of the enemy crouched along the opposite side, until he reached the gun. Jumping up, he shot the 2 gunners down, hurdled the wall, and seized the gun. Swinging it around, he immediately opened fire on the enemy with the remaining ammunition, raking their flight and inflicting further casualties on them as they fled. After smashing the machinegun over the rocks, Sgt. Logan captured an enemy officer and private who were attempting to sneak away. Later in the morning, Sgt. Logan went after a sniper hidden in a house about 150 yards from the company. Again the intrepid Sgt. ran a gauntlet of fire to reach his objective. Shooting the lock off the door, Sgt. Logan kicked it in and shot the sniper who had just reached the bottom of the stairs. The conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity which characterized Sgt. 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