NEWS: Old News From Iraq

a lot of shit goes down over there that people don't see on tv.

Well, the sad part is, you are correct.

I hate to say it, but in some cases the military brings this on itself. Just like the police in some city have lowered their standards, the military has too.

Normally, I am as apolitical as you can get, since I prefer not to try and drag work and R/L together. But the current situation with military recruiting (based on combat tours, etc) has caused the military to lowers its standards. And the sad part is, there are people with "issues" that are getting into the military and handling weapons. I know, I work with some of them.

But it has been said by another in this thread, we are people too. Some people can handle stress and lax of sexual contact better than others. The fact remains that if you put men and women together, there is going to be the odd man out who is deficient and attacks women for whatever reason.


Getting back to the OP, I think this should be brought to the attention of the national media. But only after the national media prints one good story about our troops for every bad story that they elect to publish/bring to light. I know most of the good stuff that we are doing over here isn't "newsworthy", but tough shit.........tell the WHOLE story, not just the bad sides of it.

agreed

i agree about the media, it will never change though. they get too many good ratings reporting on negativity and spin offs.

It seems to happen consisitantly in the military. I had a friend that got raped in Korea, it is just something that you can't fathom why people can do that to others, nevermind their own in arms...