{"id":23747,"date":"2011-06-06T07:44:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T11:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23747"},"modified":"2011-06-06T07:46:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T11:46:41","slug":"ivaw-targets-fort-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23747","title":{"rendered":"IVAW targets Fort Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iraq Veterans Against the War have begun their campaign called &#8220;Operation Recovery&#8221; which has as it&#8217;s goal the prevention of the Army commanders to deploy &#8220;wounded&#8221; soldiers. One of my ninjas sent us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivaw.org\/blog\/operation-recovery-announces-first-target\">this link from Aaron Hughes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Through out this work it has been clear that Ft. Hood stands out as the worst abuser of service members right to heal. Operation Recovery has deployed to Ft. Hood to hold III Corps and Fort Hood Commander Lt. Gen. Campbell accountable for every Ft. Hood soldier that commits suicide, is sexual assaulted, or deployed with MST, PTSD, or TBI. Get the facts.<\/p>\n<p>After requesting to meet with Gen. Campbell for over a month through certified mail and through email (to including the hundreds of emails members and supporters have sent to bring attention to our request) we were ignored. Wednesday in our attempt to not be ignored the Operation Recovery Team went to Third Corps office to meet with Gen. Campbell and deliver our demands to respect service members right to heal. We were ignored again by the General and forced to deliver our letter to an aid. Read more about the teams attempt to meet with Gen. Campbell here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of their delivery of the letter to Fort Hood Headquarters. You&#8217;ll want to turn your speakers down;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vRMfBkvdn-A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their &#8220;demands&#8217;;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rFH6DlkOwZ0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imagine that. A general refused to listen to IVAW&#8217;s demands. Aren&#8217;t generals charged with responding to every group of malcontents who wanders up to the main gate of their command? And he won&#8217;t speak with some random dorks off the street who arrive unannounced.<\/p>\n<p>Someone please explain to me what would be the use of deploying soldiers to war who aren&#8217;t able to perform their mission? Ya know back during the civil war, that might make sense when soldiers were tossed into the meat grinder of combat, but now it&#8217;s senseless.<\/p>\n<p>I guess soon the IVAW will be making demands of <strong>This Ain&#8217;t Hell<\/strong>, too. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/cover-story\/standing-down\">in another link<\/a>, I&#8217;m the big meany who can&#8217;t give Victor Agosto a compassionate break;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Soldiers are incredibly loyal to each other. They\u2019ll help each other and their families through the stress of multiple deployments. When soldiers refuse to deploy, they discover the other side of this community. All that brotherly love can turn to wrath. On the military blog <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10753\">This Ain\u2019t Hell<\/a><\/strong>, combat veteran <strong>Jonn Lilyea<\/strong> called Agosto the \u201ccoward of the month.\u201d Upon Agosto\u2019s release, Lilyea suggested, \u201cNow that Agosto is out of prison, he can go anywhere he wants. I urge him to go to a country that doesn\u2019t embarrass him quite so much.\u201d Other comments on <strong>This Ain\u2019t Hell<\/strong> and other blogs can\u2019t be reprinted here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, at least they spelled my name right and mentioned the fact that I&#8217;m a combat veteran. <\/p>\n<p>What happened to Agosto&#8217;s loyalty? He abandoned his workmates and someone else had to take his place on the line &#8211; the job has to be done, and it doesn&#8217;t matter who does it. I wonder if the guy they sent to take Agosto&#8217;s place was one of those soldiers who was wounded and needed time to recover?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iraq Veterans Against the War have begun their campaign called &#8220;Operation Recovery&#8221; which has as &hellip; <a title=\"IVAW targets Fort Hood\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23747\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IVAW targets Fort Hood<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,37,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}