{"id":29172,"date":"2012-03-18T09:31:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T13:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29172"},"modified":"2012-03-18T09:31:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T13:31:10","slug":"forscom-commander-has-confidence-in-jblm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29172","title":{"rendered":"FORSCOM Commander has confidence in JBLM"},"content":{"rendered":"

The commander of Forces Command, Gen. David Rodriguez, felt the need to announce that he still has confidence in the troops at Joint Base Lewis-McChord last Friday in the wake of the murder of 16 Afghans by one of the soldiers at that base and the report that a Lieutenant Colonel had been arrested for plotting the murder of his wife and his girlfriend according to the Seattle Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nothing different here than most places,\u201d said Rodriguez, a four-star general who previously served in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose things happen \u2026 Everybody knows that doesn\u2019t reflect our standards and our values, nor does it reflect the majority of the leaders and soldiers that serve here every day as well as overseas.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, yeah. Two incidences don’t make a crime spree. There are about 34,000 people at the base, and 33,998 of them haven’t participated in those crimes. In January, My Northwest.com<\/a>, tried to raise an alarm about troops at JBLM because there had been 1000 more arrests there than the year before – misdemeanor arrests. I sure would like to see what those arrests were for rather than just look at the final numbers. In an age when everything is a misdemeanor, it’s hard to imagine the number of arrests going down. <\/p>\n

In fact, if you look at arrests in the District of Columbia<\/a>, a mostly non-military population 7 times larger than JBLM’s population, gets arrested at a higher rate with 700 arrests a week. So what is the media’s point, exactly? The majority of the troops behave themselves, but that’s not news apparently. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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