The Walter Reed scandal of early 2007 is a case study in the failure of information warfare thus far.
UPDATE: But when Dhimmicrat Mad Jack Murtha and the MSM are out to get ’em, even the Marines falter. Until the prosecutions collapse.
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While the one-eyed MSM focuses on Walter Reed, SFC Jack Army’s idea for improving conditions for veterans’ care across the country looks like a winner:
"Here’s my proposal: if you are a congressman/woman or work for a congressman/woman, then you and all of your immediate family can only be cared for at a VA hospital."
Heh
Milblogger Jack Army notes that the dirty, rundown Walter Reed facilities of current scandal fame are not unusual, but replicated pretty widely across the whole Army, stateside and overseas.
"Hey, I’m all for our injured and recovering troops getting topnotch quarters and state-of-the-art care, but to relieve anybody over the conditions is just ridiculous. It’s unfair. Those leaders deserve better."
Even Fort Benning could use some fixup and fresh paint. When my OCS class reunioned there in 2003, we were delighted to find that our old barracks was home to the Rangers, but saddened that the building was such a wreck. Putting money into salaries and gear makes sense, but the physical plant is suffering. As Jack says, if anybody should be relieved, it should be Congress.
More dispatches from Walter Reed by J.R. Salzman in his recovery from losing his right arm and ring finger of his left hand in an IED explosion in Iraq last fall. His wife is doing the typing in this amazing and poignant kind of blogging:
"I realize there are a lot of other people out there who are worse off than me. I am not asking for sympathy here. All I am trying to do is let you know what it is like to experience this. I have constant phantom pain in my arm where it feels like my hand is still there, and someone is sawing on it with a knife."
My Confederate great grandfather lost the lower part of one leg to a cannon ball in the Wilderness battle, May 6, 1864, went home and spent much of the rest of his life wearing a wooden peg while plowing behind a mule. I always wondered what that was like. J.R. brings that and many other things into clear focus.
Via Black Five
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J.R. Salzman, a different kind of active-duty milblogger, the kind who was wounded by an IED in Iraq:
"I’m here at Walter Reed and I’m doing OK. I have surgery pretty much every other day. They are trying to close up my amputated right arm/hand, and they are repairing the smashed knuckles on my left hand. I’m in a lot of pain and it is making it hard to sleep and do normal tasks. It’s going to take a long time to learn how to do everything over again."
His wife is doing the typing now, as he has just three fingers left. Going to be worth reading, so bookmark it.
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Tagged IED, Iraq, J.R. Saltzman, Walter Reed
Three wounded soldiers: First Lieutenant Ross Stadklev, Private First Class Stephen Hopkins and Specialist Bruce Dunlap whose stories and photos are moving reminders of what’s going on over there while we gorge and otherwise chill. All three will be receiving voice-activated laptops from Valour-IT, but their Walter Reed addresses are included in the piece where you can send a card or a letter.
Via, who else, Black Five
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