SC Nat'l Guard Story in Seattle Times

This was posted in LBN - needs to hit the airwaves here in SC. I haven't seen it anywhere, but then I don't read the papers that much either. Anybody have any connections to make sure it gets to the State, local talk radio ? Wyethwire - can you help ?


September 19, 2004

FORT DIX, N.J. ? The 635 soldiers of a battalion of the South Carolina National Guard scheduled to leave today for a year or more in Iraq have spent their off-duty hours the past two weeks under a disciplinary lockdown in their barracks.

The trouble began Labor Day weekend, when 13 members of the 1st Battalion of the 178th Field Artillery Regiment went AWOL, mainly to see their families again before shipping out.

Then there was an ugly confrontation between members of the battalion's Alpha and Charlie batteries that threatened to turn into a brawl involving three dozen soldiers and required the base police to intervene.

That prompted a barracks inspection that uncovered alcohol, resulting in the lockdown that kept soldiers in their rooms except for drills, barred even from stepping outside for a smoke, a restriction that continued with some exceptions until today's scheduled deployment.


more...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/20020...

still bad news

its a reprint of the Washington Post story

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/9703073.htm

Now we have disgruntled soldiers being sent INTO combat.

Wait for next year's My Lai clones to start showing up.

Has anyone ever considered for a moment the possibility that there might even be a mutiny among the troops? How would that one get spun?

We HAVE to get this bozo out in November while there is still something to save.