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TABLE OF CONTENTS ARTICLES
Hack's Column
SecDefs and Their Golden Parachutes 1
Zimm "Flash" 2
>From The Field:
Hack On Target!! - Response To Bethesda 3
Maintenance LT's Struggle Continues 4
Main Focus - Women in the Military
Mothers at Sea 5
Hold Women to Tougher Standards 6
Medal of Honor: 7
McGarity, Vernon1
T/Sgt., USA, Co. L, 393d Infantry, 99th Infantry Division.
Near Krinkelt, Belgium, 16 December 1944.
G.I Humor:
The Fruitcake Recipe for B17 Pilots 8
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ARTICLE 1
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SEC DEFS AND THEIR GOLDEN PARACHUTES
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BY DAVID H. HACKWORTH, 14 December 1999
Defense Secretary William Cohen has been in Europe doing his thing,
hustling U.S. arms. The Sec Def is America's top salesman for all that
deadly stuff produced by his buddies in the U.S. arms business and then
promoted and authorized by his pals in Congress in their never-ending quest
for more pork and jobs for the folks back home.
These days he's got an uphill job. Made-in-the-USA fighters, bombers,
missiles and tanks sold briskly in Western Europe until the Iron Curtain
collapsed. But with no major military threats on the horizon, some European
nations have reduced their defense spending by as much as half. Others,
weary of the U.S. monopoly in arms, have made it a point to take their
shopping elsewhere.
For the U.S. military-industrial-congressional complex, this is very bad
news. The American defense industry gang, the world's biggest arms
supplier, misses the golden days of the Cold War, not unlike the mob missed
Prohibition when it was repealed back in the 1930s.
So Cohen's been pushing the line that while the Soviets are no longer an
issue, Europe must be prepared for new threats from rogue states like North
Korea and Iran. With a straight face, Cohen's putting out the word that
Pyongyang, Tehran and a dozen other meanies are assembling intercontinental
ballistic missile systems to blow everyone away. Long-range missiles
capable of putting a nuke weapon right splat on top of that wonderful
little cafe across from the Eiffel Tower and other fun spots in Western
Europe.
His pitch is right out of the Cold War: Create a threat, fan the fear that
the bad guys are coming and then sell weapons to save the "Free World."
Hey, it's worked for 50 years. Why not 50 more?
Take the recent case of the United States and Red China. First the White
House, Hughes and Loral give the Reds the high-tech capability to whack an
ICBM down in any front yard in the USA. Then Cohen tells us we're once
again nuclear targets and only the creation of a multibillion-dollar
protective umbrella will save us from those nasty incoming Chinese
missiles. There's no mention that what triggered this new anti-missile arms
race was our providing Red China with the secrets of how missiles hit
targets, or that since Reagan kicked off Star Wars, more than $100 billion
has been blown on this unworkable scheme.
But at the end of a bloody century where more money's been spent on arms
than in the complete history of humankind, most European leaders aren't
falling for Cohen's line.
Nor are they gung-ho about remaining dependent on the U.S. security
apparatus, especially since our bungles in Serbia. American leadership both
in Washington and among the top brass at NATO -- starting with Gen. Wesley
Clark, the biggest doofus since William Westmoreland of Vietnam shame --
has made European leaders leery about being led down the tubes by another
American General Humpty Dumpty. Going it alone with an all-European defense
force commanded by their own generals is looking better and better.
And it should. They're big boys and girls who can well defend their own
back yard. We've been propping them up for 55 years, and it's time they did
the Bosnias and Kosovos on their own while we attend to our home fronts,
beginning with securing our southern border.
Hopefully, then, NATO won't be around much longer to waste your tax
dollars. When this obsolete defense treaty disappears, we can bring 100,000
troops back to the USA and save about $50 billion per year.
One of life's ironies is that our government arms most of the so-called
Free World with horrific weapons. Meanwhile, the same politicians are
scheming to take away our peashooters in order to make our country a more
peaceful land -- just as we enter a decade of the worst terrorism in history.
Perhaps we should all make a New Year's resolution to disarm the world
instead. We could start by putting an end to the mass exportation of
weapons. And we could also stop sticking our noses in everyone else's
business.
Of course, this wouldn't be good for our Sec Defs. How could they afford
their post-Pentagon lifestyle? Since 1961, there hasn't been one U.S.
secretary of defense who didn't end up a multimillionaire. Ever wonder
where the money comes from?
Http://www.hackworth.com is the address of David Hackworth's home page.
Sign in for the free weekly Defending America column in Voice of the Grunt
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We're getting a lot of THE PRICE OF HONOR book requests from all over the
world. There is no way I can out service the big boys like
barnesandnobel.com or amazon.com. on overseas orders. They can get the
book out in one day and on its way to you for a cheaper price then I can
(They buy bulk). Since, I am a part-time staff of one, it takes me three
to four working days to process an order. So, if you are in a hurry,
please go to the big boys.
If you want Hack to sign an autograph label for a book you buy elsewhere,
please send request to him at PO Box 5210, Greenwich, Ct 06831, USA, along
with a self-addressed, stamped envelope, and I'll get him to sign it and
hopefully on its way back to you the same day.
You can still also buy autographed books by sending a check for $30 US to
the same address, saying what it's for, but time has run out to get it to
you before Christmas.
Have good holidays... Nalisha
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