3.12.2007

On the whole, I'd rather be at Walter Reed.

As the military scrambles to pour more soldiers into Iraq, a unit of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Ga., is deploying troops with serious injuries and other medical problems, including GIs who doctors have said are medically unfit for battle. Some are too injured to wear their body armor, according to medical records.
(Salon via Cliff Schecter)

"Support the troops" does not mean prop them up.

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