Draft evader Cheney re-enlists amputee during visit to Fort Stewart

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1974062.php

FORT STEWART, Ga. — During a rally for more than 8,000 Georgia troops, Vice President Dick Cheney administered the re-enlistment oath to a 24-year-old Army gunner determined to remain in the ranks after losing his left leg last year to a bomb blast in Iraq.

Flanked by risers crowded with his fellow 3rd Infantry Division troops, Cpl. Jerrod Fields of Chicago raised his right hand Friday before Cheney and pledged to serve another four years. The Army approved Fields to remain in his cavalry unit after he passed his physical fitness test with flying colors, including running 2 miles in 14 minutes, 9 seconds with a prosthetic leg.

“I wasn’t going to let the bad guys, the enemy, affect a decision I’d already made,” said Fields, who was wounded by a roadside bomb while driving a Bradley armored vehicle near Rustamayah, Iraq, in February 2005.

Fields opted to have his leg amputated below the knee to improve his chances of returning to active duty. He said Cheney offered words of personal praise offstage.

Any justice in this world lightning would have struck cheney dead. Fields is obviously just too thick to know who the hell he was allowing to reenlist him.

Words just fuckin' fail me. :grr::mad: :puke: :argh::nuke: :banghead: