February 07, 2006
Fuck The Troops
The last time 1st Lt. William "Eddie" Rebrook IV saw his body armor, he was lying on a stretcher in Iraq, his arm shattered and covered in blood.A field medic tied a tourniquet around Rebrook’s right arm to stanch the bleeding from shrapnel wounds. Soldiers yanked off his blood-soaked body armor. He never saw it again.
But last week, Rebrook was forced to pay $700 for that body armor, blown up by a roadside bomb more than a year ago.
He was leaving the Army for good because of his injuries. He turned in his gear at his base in Fort Hood, Texas. He was informed there was no record that the body armor had been stripped from him in battle.
He was told to pay nearly $700 or face not being discharged for weeks, perhaps months.
Rebrook, 25, scrounged up the cash from his Army buddies and returned home to Charleston last Friday.
Especially jarring, perhaps, is the piddling sum he had to "scrounge" for: we can afford to spend $100,000 per minute in Iraq if it's for gazillion-dollar weapons systems, and a new house in Florida for Dubya's "Uncle Bucky". But $700 on some schmuck-assed grunt who got his ass blown up (probably -- o, the irony -- because he had lousy body armor in the first place), and can't prove that he's not keeping the lousy body armor to sell on Ebay? Fuck him. Fuck him twice.
Posted by Eddie Tews at February 7, 2006 11:41 AM
Comments
I'ts interesting how one week you are so concerned about body armor,and the next week you are saying"fuck the troops".Make up your mind.If you hate the troops so much,I would think that you would want to see them all without body armor.The usual hypocracy from a total commie piece of shit!I know you will delete this post you fucking coward! -- Posted by: jeff aldridge on March 14, 2006 08:40 AM