{"id":8632,"date":"2009-03-11T14:11:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T19:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=8632"},"modified":"2009-03-11T14:29:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T19:29:24","slug":"what-do-you-guys-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8632","title":{"rendered":"What do you guys think?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Go read this article.<\/a><\/p>\n

FORT BRAGG, N.C. \u2013 Staff Sgt. Jason Jonas says when he goes to bed at night, he is terrified his medication will cause him to oversleep and miss morning roll call again.<\/p>\n

His commanders are fully aware the paratrooper wounded in Afghanistan has been diagnosed with a sleep disorder, because he is one of about 10,000 soldiers assigned to the Army’s Warrior Transition units, created for troops recovering from injuries.<\/p>\n

Instead of gingerly nursing them back to health, however, commanders at Fort Bragg’s transition unit readily acknowledge holding them to the same standards as able-bodied soldiers in combat units, often assigning chores as punishment for minor infractions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And a further clip of it:<\/p>\n

Sgt. Sheree Snow, 30, of Indianapolis, said she was evacuated from Iraq to Germany with fibroid tumors in February 2008, had a hysterectomy that May and was prescribed pain and sleeping medication for months afterward while at Fort Bragg. She said the medication led her to miss nine morning formations, and when she was trying to wean herself off the painkillers, an entire day. <\/p>\n

Thornton, her commander, punished her with 14 days of extra duty and docked her two months’ pay, she said<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK, well this story has been bouncing around all day among my friends, and I find it a rare occassion where we are all on differing sides.<\/p>\n

[Language warning after the jump]
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This was part of one of my email responses:<\/p>\n

TSO: That\u2019s the thing, I have no problem with contacting the media when shit doesn\u2019t get fixed. I just don\u2019t trust the media enough to take this entire story at face value without some more depth. Our shit was absolutely FUBAR, but we didn\u2019t really do anything except address it through a middle of the night distribution of an award winning newsletter. If I was injured, and slept through formation and they tried to take my money, I would have appealed that shit to the fucking supreme court, and losing there would have shit on Ginsburg\u2019s desk.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, a friend of mine had some first person accounts that differed greatly from mine:<\/p>\n

Friend CIB recipient: Having been in the transition battalion at Bragg, it\u2019s a pretty miserable place. There\u2019s a lot of lax discipline there, but idiotic, chicken-shite adherence to things that didn\u2019t make sense. I had major sciatica at the time, with an inflamed, bulging disc and was given a P3 profile that essentially said \u201cNo Push-ups, No Sit-ups, No lifting over 10 lbs, No Running, walk at your own pace\u201d Now, we all know this was ideal, because that\u2019s about what my physical capabilities are normally.<\/p>\n

I got put into the PT group (because we were in a military unit all soldiers had to do PT every morning) with all the broken people who couldn\u2019t do anything according to profile. I\u2019m not making it up, we had guys in formation with walkers and polio crutches and the Company commander would try to march us places. <\/p>\n

The NCO\u2019s were a little better, but it depended on who you had. Most didn\u2019t give a crap. I had two soldiers in my squad (I was a squad leader) who had heavy medications and problems with sleep. I called them every day at 20 minutes before formation to make sure they were out of bed. They weren\u2019t late on my watch. That\u2019s what an NCO is supposed to do. The Platoon Sergeant regularly gave the broken platoon PT like\u2026um\u2026walk to Burger King at your own pace. Get breakfast. Dismissed.<\/p>\n

There were a lot of goldbrickers there, for sure. Almost everyone there was in a state of clinical depression either because they were good soldiers having a hard time adjusting to the idea of no longer being useful or just bad soldiers who didn\u2019t care and there was a big miasma hanging over the place. You know what units are like when nobody cares and management\u2019s answer to everything is to yell louder and enforce rules no matter how implausible? Of course you guys do\u2026what am I saying.<\/p>\n

Anyway, yeah\u2026upper echelons treated everyone there like shite and assumed we were all goldbricking. They were right about some to be sure, maybe even as much as half-but the one thing it\u2019s right about, everyone was desperate to get out of there. In terms of miserable, even the stories of Blanding I heard don\u2019t compare. I wanted to shoot myself daily. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, I’m wondering what you guys think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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