Supporting our troops since 2001! [Disclaimer: any soldier dumb enough to get hurt in the line of battle no longer qualifies as a 'troop' and therefore does not deserve our support.]
Published by punkass marc April 12th, 2007 in Governmental Failures, Imperialism for DummiesIf Ricky Bobby taught me one thing, it’s that America is for winners. You win, you reap the rewards. You lose, you deserve the kicking-to-the-curb that’s coming to you.
Don’t believe me? Just ask the US government, who’s knowingly taking advantage of soldiers so bad at their jobs they couldn’t keep from getting hurt:
The way the government rates service members’ disabilities is inconsistent, and the Army might be shortchanging injured soldiers, the chairman of a special commission said Thursday.
Fantastic system we have now. We recycle soldiers who expected to be done serving or are in desperate need of a break right back into unjust combat duty. We don’t equip them properly or provide them ample body protection. And now, when they get injured, we screw around with them.
And why? Because if you aren’t willing stop a bullet with your teeth or psychically sense mines and IEDs, you’ve failed to demonstrate your committment to our national excellence. Either that, or you just don’t measure up.
The first phase in ostracizing losertroops like that is to care for them poorly:
Among the complaints are the difficulties troops and veterans have in navigating the health care system, including long waits, lost paperwork and subjective ratings as they move from military hospitals to the VA’s vast network of 1,400 clinics and treatment facilities.
Once that’s done, we make sure the Department of Defense intentionally underclassifies the seriousness of their injuries so we can stiff them:
While the differing standards account for some inconsistencies, “it is also apparent that DOD has strong incentive to assign ratings less than 30 percent so that only separation pay is required,” [Lt. Gen. James Terry] Scott said in testimony.
The final step is to make sure they know you won’t be doing anything about their problems any time soon:
“A full solution is still several years away,” Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England said, while offering assurances that he and Nicholson do confer “when issues need to be addressed at our level.”
If God doesn’t love you enough to keep you healthy on the battlefield, our government’s made it crystal clear it doesn’t need you or want you around.
I look forward to the day when these soldiers are sterilized. That way, we’ll have fewer loserdescendants around to gum up our well-oiled combat machine.
It’s shameful that the majority of military men and women vote GOP. It’s so fucking dysfunctional it’s sick. I’ll never understand how these people can’t see through the shallow rhetoric and hypocrisy. It can’t be fun feeling like a toy a rich kid got for christmas.
“It’s shameful that the majority of military men and women vote GOP.”
I think this war may change that; even my dyed in the wool Republican father is mortified at what’s gone on the last four years.
I think it is changing among the military folks and the latest move to unpredictably extend deployments in the name of predictability has only soured more of the soldiers over there right now.