{"id":13746,"date":"2009-08-18T11:50:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T16:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13746"},"modified":"2009-08-18T11:55:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T16:55:35","slug":"dahr-jamail-tongue-baths-another-vat-of-whiny-pathetic-bitchy-malcontents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13746","title":{"rendered":"Dahr Jamail tongue baths another vat of whiny, pathetic, bitchy malcontents"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m doing this post because I promised Jonn I would. I still have my other one of the GenCon to do as well. But the more I read of this asshat the more angry I get. Today’s addition to the fetid, stinking pile of shit that is the body of work of inveterate liar Dahr Jamail is entitled: Echo Platoon – Warehousing soldiers in the homeland.<\/a><\/p>\n

Echo Platoon is part of the 82nd Replacement Detachment of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Soldiers in the platoon are relegated to living quarters in a set of dimly lit concrete rooms. Pipes peep out of missing ceiling tiles and a musty smell permeates beds placed on cracked linoleum floors.<\/p>\n

For soldiers who have gone AWOL (Absent Without Leave) and then voluntarily turned themselves in or were forcibly returned, the detention conditions here in Echo Platoon only serve to reinforce the inescapability of their situation. They remain suspended in a legal limbo of forced uncertainty that can extend from several months to a year or more, while the military takes its time deciding their fate. Some of them, however, are offered a free pass out of this military half-life — but only if they agree to deploy to Afghanistan or Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It goes on in this vein interminably. Illustrative of what a total pack of [eupemism for cat] these guys are, I give you the words of Specialist Kevin McCormick, a guy who went AWOL for 4 1\/2 months:<\/p>\n

Echo is like jail with some privileges. [You are] just stuck there with horrible living conditions. There’s black mold on the building [and] when I first got there, there were five or six people to a room, which is like a cell block with cement brick walls. The piping and electricals are above the tiles, so if anything leaks or bursts, it goes right down into the room. … You’re less than human to the commanders. [They act as if] you don’t deserve to be alive. A sergeant told us he wanted to take us out and shoot us in the back of the head. We get threatened all the time there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Look asshole, the guys deployed sleep on the ground. And they risk death every second they spend over there. In Afghanistan I lived in a plywood hooch that had 8 guys in it. I think the B hut was like 15×30. 8 of us. No walls. The Air Conditioner would freeze over, and temps would rapidly rise. When it got hot enough the Air Conditioner would melt and all of my stuff would get wet. Then this process would begin anew. Those were on good days. On bad days we slept on the ground, on rocks, on whatever there was there. And we pulled guard all night, watched the radio etc. <\/p>\n

So I really could give 2 shits that you live in a musty, moldy barracks. The men you were supposed to be serving your country with are over there doing work that you wouldn’t do, and they are shouldering your portion. Next time you bitch about looking up from your play station 3 to view with dismay a missing ceiling tile, how about spending a millisecond in thought not entirely devoted to you. <\/p>\n

GD this article pissed me off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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