-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ARTICLE 10 Air Force: Dog & Pony Shows Aren’t Just Navy Specialties Ed.: And you thought you had seen it all… By a concerned AF NonCom Excellent article SFTT featured concerning "dog and pony shows". My last assignment was at the Air Force Fire School at Goodfellow AFB in Texas. Three - four times a week critical fire training is put on hold so VIPs can suit up in firefighter gear and waste hundreds of gallons of fuel at Goodfellows showcase burn pits. For the gutsy VIPs, there is also ample opportunity to learn the art of repelling. What a deal!! Course directors at the schoolhouse are fed up with the shows and have started tracking man-hours and lost training time for these "pony shows", but senior leadership could care less with the stats. ARTICLE 11 Very Few Really Want The Truth Ed.: From the perspective of the grunt and in response to my piece on "Dog and Pony" shows. Having been in the business for over 20 years, I can only agree with the soldier. One more reason why many decide not to stay in. By former Specialist Brian P. With all due respect, as glorious and noble as your idea is, it will never happen. What politician wants to see real-life soldiers with their camped faces and dirty uniforms after two weeks in the field? While I agree with you that these staged meetings are B.S., reality states that no one wants to witness the real "going-ons." No one from the O-6 rank up wants to show the public the truth. They simply want to display the end result. Not a soul cares how many weeks we spend in the field away from our families training. They are wondrously happy inside their ignorant shells. This idea may seem a bit pessimistic, however, it is only the opinion of one soldier after six years of serving his country. Please understand, I do not dislike officers; I am simply a realist. After serving in four duty stations with over 8 platoon leaders, and God-only-knows how many battalion commanders, I have seen an unfortunate amount of politics among the upper (from my point of view) echelons. It was the primary reason I got out. As moving as my father's stories were of life in the Army "back in the day" , they could not keep me in the institution I was raised to adore. ARTICLE 12 Gulf War Veterans March in London Ed.: Maybe we need some marches and commemorations in our country to remind our politicians that we Gulf Vets are owed some answers. AP report from 02/24/01 that didn’t make the front pages. ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP WIRE SERVICE LONDON (AP) - Several dozen Gulf War veterans and their families led a solemn march through London Saturday to commemorate the British troops who died as a result of the 1991 war - and to call for a government inquiry into war-related illnesses. About 80 marchers walked in silence from Westminster Abbey to lay wreaths on London's war memorial, the Cenotaph, on the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the ground campaign against Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces. The march was led by 7-year-old Roxy Meens, whose father Stephen, a Gulf veteran, died of a heart attack in 1999 at age 38. The National Gulf War Veterans and Families Association, which organized the commemoration, said close to 500 British military personnel have died as a result of the conflict. Forty-nine British soldiers were killed during the six-week war. The dead include suicides and victims of so-called Gulf War Syndrome, the collective name for a wide array of unexplained symptoms including headache, depression, asthma and chronic fatigue. According to veterans groups, about 3,000 British Gulf veterans claim to suffer from the syndrome. Many blame the potent cocktail of vaccines they were given to ward off potential Iraqi chemical and biological weapons attacks. The Royal British Legion, the country's main veterans' organization, also has called for an inquiry the illnesses. ``Our ultimate aim is to get proper care for victims of the Gulf War because if this country wants to send people to fight for them it is their responsibility to look after them when they return if they get ill,'' said marcher Shaun Rusling. About 40,000 British troops served in the campaign to liberate Kuwait following the invasion by Iraq. ARTICLE 13 GI HUMOR – PFC To Be Chairman of JCS Ed.: If it weren’t a joke, I’d believe it…Forwarded from Aussie friend Perry. Original author unknown, although I’d like to find out. Rated NPC – Not Politically Correct After eighteen months of relentless sexual and morality purges, Secretary of Defense William Cohen announced that he will recommend Army PFC Ed Andrus to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. According to Cohen, "It was a damn tough choice, because every one of the eight personnel remaining in America's fighting services was extremely well qualified." Cohen went on to praise Andrus's record as a wheeled vehicle mechanic and his fine performance as Charge of Quarters and Day Room Orderly in the 2nd Battalion, 21st Infantry. "Ed is the best and he will do a great job for our country as we enter the 21st Century," said Cohen. AP learned that Andrus' closest competitor was U.S. Navy Petty Officer Willie Huckabee. But when investigators found out that Huckabee had kissed a girl, who was not his wife, while attending the Lee Harvey Oswald Elementary School, his name was dropped from the list. In a public statement, Huckabee said, "I knew I was wrong when I did it, but damn she was pretty. I regret any embarrassment that I have caused the Navy." Cohen's previous choice, Marine Staff Sergeant Henley Dood, was found to have smoked in the Boys' Room while attending junior high school in Mobile, Alabama. Dood is now serving a life sentence at the United States' Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In his first public statement, Chairman-designate Andrus made the following comments, "You know, growing up all alone in the jungle didn't give me much of an opportunity to meet women. Heck, I couldn't even speak English until I was fifteen years old, and even then, those darn priests told me they'd cut my ___ off if they caught me with a girl. But, I really do believe that I might like them, if I had the chance." Andrus continued, "The eight of us that are left are real good folks. Ernie Weed's a Mennonite, and I'm told that Seaman Godly used to be a nun before she joined up. Don't worry America... you can count on us!" 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