FINALY SOME GOOD NEWS

Word on the grapevine is that the 4th Brigade received notification today that their deployment orders were changed.

This is second hand news, and unverified by yours truly, so I am cautiously optimistic.

What I'm not sure of is exactly what the change is, but Matt messaged his brother that it meant that the stop loss order will no longer affect him, and he will separate from active duty on 5/12/09.

We will keep our fingers crossed.

79 DAYS BUT WHO'S COUNTING

So I'm home sick with the flu, (probably caught it from Airborne Dad), and I'm surfing the Ft. Lewis News trying to find out something about the death of a teenage girl in a barracks there, when I come across this highly intelligent comment.
"My god you have to be joking here...
The military has been assaulting and raping
there own people for years now... Four in
five female soldiers have been assaulted
and or raped by there fellow
servicemen world-wide.... The vast majority
of service - men (used loosely) are either
rapist them-self's, voyeurs or complacent
participants....
I never look at a Military person as a defender
of the American people.... I rather see them
as the are... Losers who feed on the American
Tax dollar..... Personally I'll call them what they
really are,,, mind-less rednecks pretending to
even care what America stands for ..or did at
onetime.... they join the ranks for cash, money
for college (right) or to avoid jail time....
The American people have aloud this
because it's only cheesy brain-dead already
rednecks that do the dyeing...
In short what happened here is they Killed
a young beautiful soul.... they almost killed another...
and tomorrow they will do it again.....
and please don't ever pretend you
give a rats ass for America.. or this would have never
happened.... GOD REST THIS POOR GIRLS SOUL
MY HEAT IS BROKEN FOR THIS FAMILY......"
I agree with the last sentence in bold.
The rest of it is some kind of ignorant blathering.
I can't imagine that any American would have this opinion of our soldiers.
The Army is a huge community, and like any of our cities there are individuals who are less than reputable citizens. But to paint all of our military personnel with a broad brush is ignorant at best.
Here's the comment I left in answer.
"What an idiot. "aloud"? Most third graders would catch that grammatical error. Better to keep your thoughts to yourself and be thought a fool then write a comment like this and remove all doubt.
Stop by www.militarydad.blogspot, and leave your thoughts so you can really fined out how smart you are."
While I doubt that this individual will stop bye, I certainly hope he does.
Then my 1%er friends can weigh in.
Or maybe I'm the one who's wrong?
Here's a link to this comment.
http://www.topix.com/forum/post/reply.
In the event that you would like to stop bye and say hi.