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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nIn a link sent to us by Patrick, CNN goes straight to<\/a> Iraq Veterans Against the War when they want to blame the military for those shootings in Afghanistan. They take the same tone as the Washington Post<\/a>, blaming the leadership at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, because the media likes to see general officers take the fall. But CNN goes to Jorge Gonzalez, apparently, according to his profile<\/a> at IVAW, one of the few remaining actual Iraq veterans left in the organization, if that tells you anything about his character. But, of course, CNN needed the insight of a five-year specialist to judge the leadership of the Joint Base;<\/p>\n “This was not just a rogue soldier,” said Jorge Gonzalez, executive director of G.I. Voice, a veteran-run nonprofit organization that operates a soldiers’ resource center near the base called Coffee Strong. The base is “a rogue base, with a severe leadership problem,” he said.<\/p>\n “If Fort Lewis was a college campus, it would have been closed down years ago,” Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n In the wake of Sunday’s shootings, he called for a congressional investigation and hearings “into the multiple crises” at the base.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Of course, it’s not the first time we’ve heard of Gonzalez. NSOM wrote about him<\/a> a few weeks ago doing the same shit.<\/p>\n For those of you who have never served, we senior leadership in the Army get to hear the opinions of Soldiers in the E-4 pay grade like Gonzalez everyday, all day long and we don’t pay attention to them, because most of them think they have valuable opinions, but that’s hardly ever the case. According to Gonzalez’ profile he spent five years in the Army and only managed to get promoted three times. that’s a little on the low side for soldiers. But he’d probably tell you it’s because the man was keeping him down and didn’t recognize his talent. <\/p>\n So, good job, CNN, finding the least credible person in Washington State to support your story. Gonzalez hasn’t been stationed on Lewis-McCord since 2009, so he’s basing his expertise on listening to the more current E-4 Mafia as they bitch and complain about things they don’t understand.<\/p>\n Then to further support their story, CNN uses the case of Benjamin Colton Barnes<\/a>, the Army-trained survival specialist who was found face down in a creek when he dies from hypothermia (like a true survival specialist whom the Army trains) who was booted from his service at JB Lewis-McChord more than three years ago. Of course, CNN used him as an example<\/a> of “vets gone nuts” a few weeks ago, too. So it must be JBLM that’s at fault, even though the nut they used in the “vets as nuts” story with Barnes was a Marine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"