Status Quo, SOP

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“This too shall pass.” I suspect that is what the Army’s senior leadership lives by whenever another public relations disaster hits. In February 2007 we learned about the living conditions of wounded soldiers in Build 18 and Walter Reed Medical Center. Just recently we learned of soldiers returning from an 15 month tour in Afghanistan … Read more

Army-wide barracks inspection ordered

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“Folks, we let our soldiers down; that is not like us,” Brig. Gen. Dennis Rogers, the deputy director of Operations & Facilities of Army Installation Command, told reporters. “There is no good excuse for what happened.” While the walk-through is not yet complete, Rogers said that garrison commanders have reported so far that “soldiers are … Read more

Hiding Institutionalized Behavior

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This CNN article (read more | digg story) says that Fort Bragg is addressing the deplorable conditions of the barracks that the 82nd Airborne lives in after a video depicting these conditions was posted to YouTube. This is a continuation of an established pattern by which the Army hides institutionalized behavior. When Building 18 at … Read more

Anyone Else See a Pattern?

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Conditions in a barracks at Fort Bragg, North Carolina ( read more | digg story ) Building 18, Walter Reed Army Medical Center All soldiers are entitled to outstanding leadership; I will provide that leadership. I know my soldiers and I will always place their needs above my own. from The NCO Creed I wrote … Read more

What Tack for Iraq?

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One of the reasons I don’t post often is that I try to offer my own insight and opinion on things. That takes time to first construct in my mind and then write down in some cognitive form. However, some times things appear that are complete in their own right. Such is the case with … Read more

RIP: Staff Sergeant Maupin

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20 year old Private First Class Keith Matthew Maupin was captured on April 9, 2004 during an ambush on a convoy in which he was driving a supply truck. I was serving my first tour in Operation Iraqi Freedom. I have thought of and prayed for Staff Sergeant Maupin often since then. Always hoping against … Read more

Obamanomics: Hope and Fear

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Implicit in this article is a concept that I think is at the root of the problem with issues based politics. One must actually understand the issue in order to weigh a candidate’s position on that issue. In the case of this particular article, one must understand micro and macro economics fairly completely in order … Read more

Marines halt MRAP report

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Surprise, surprise, surprise. The Marine Corps has ordered Franz J. Gayl to stop his research into the decision to not deliver MRAP vehicles that commanders on the ground in Iraq said were required in order to better protect Marines from the very effective IEDs being used by insurgents. read more | digg story