{"id":25838,"date":"2011-07-14T08:17:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T12:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25838"},"modified":"2011-07-14T08:17:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T12:17:31","slug":"reservist-aviators-complain-they-were-mistreated-by-the-ad-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25838","title":{"rendered":"Reservist aviators complain they were mistreated by the AD Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A complaint as old as the nation (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/military\/2011-07-13-army-reservists-claim-mistreatment_n.htm\">USAToday<\/a> link);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nearly 200 Reservists in Iraq have signed a complaint accusing the Army of mistreatment and discrimination during the months they were preparing for war.<\/p>\n<p>The soldiers say their movements and freedoms were severely restricted during a four-month training before deployment, describing it as virtually a &#8220;lockdown&#8221; confinement to base. The Army says it was pushing to get Reservists trained and denies discriminatory treatment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And to whom did they send the letter? Their Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/mcconnell.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?p=111thCongressCommittees\">Mitch McConnell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The complaint was written by Capt. Brad Docimo, an operations officer with the battalion, stationed at Camp Taji in Iraq. Home on leave, he declined to comment. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good luck, guys. The militia complained about the way they were treated by regulars at Valley Forge, and you can see it did a fat lot of good. Maybe you should just suck it up and do what they trained you to do at Fort Hood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A complaint as old as the nation (USAToday link); Nearly 200 Reservists in Iraq have signed &hellip; <a title=\"Reservist aviators complain they were mistreated by the AD Army\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25838\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reservist aviators complain they were mistreated by the AD Army<\/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":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25838","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=25838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}