Iraq and Katrina : The Scrub factor ? (Updated)
The national guard and military have performed worse that a bunch of boys scouts.
Not a single state has more than 1/2 of their national guard troops in Iraq. Most much less.
But as I see and hear more and more of the keystone cops routine more I am convinced that all the competent leaders are in Iraq, and only the scrubs have been left behind in America.
My best friends Army reserve hasn't been called up for either gulf war. He said his fellow soldiers are incompetent. I suspect that is the core of the reason why Iraq has added to this disaster.
End of the day, Bush calling on phone would look good in tv, but he knows nothing about rescue operations. It has become apparent that the people lower down the chain are incompetent too.
(updated)
On a blog its easy to take back words said in haste and when one is upset but I will leave my orginal post as it above (except for the question mark I added to the title). My commentor kelly (below) is 100% right, it was unjust for me to paint such negative picutres of the men and women who are out there getting the job done, while I sit on my ass. But I will add this quote from a NG MP who was at the superdome yesterday.
"To tell you the truth, I'd rather be in Iraq,"
Not a single state has more than 1/2 of their national guard troops in Iraq. Most much less.
But as I see and hear more and more of the keystone cops routine more I am convinced that all the competent leaders are in Iraq, and only the scrubs have been left behind in America.
My best friends Army reserve hasn't been called up for either gulf war. He said his fellow soldiers are incompetent. I suspect that is the core of the reason why Iraq has added to this disaster.
End of the day, Bush calling on phone would look good in tv, but he knows nothing about rescue operations. It has become apparent that the people lower down the chain are incompetent too.
(updated)
On a blog its easy to take back words said in haste and when one is upset but I will leave my orginal post as it above (except for the question mark I added to the title). My commentor kelly (below) is 100% right, it was unjust for me to paint such negative picutres of the men and women who are out there getting the job done, while I sit on my ass. But I will add this quote from a NG MP who was at the superdome yesterday.
"To tell you the truth, I'd rather be in Iraq,"
"This is mass chaos," said Sgt. Jason Defess, 27, a National Guard military policeman who had been stationed on a ramp outside the Superdome since Monday. "To tell you the truth, I'd rather be in Iraq," where he was deployed for 14 months, until January. "You got your constant danger, but I had something to protect myself. [And] three meals a day. Communications. A plan. Here, they had no plan."
posted by Scott at 12:15 PM
2 Comments:
I take serious exception to your comments. Your assertions that all of the real leaders and Soldiers are in Iraq with the "scrubs" being in Iraq is baseless. The National Guard, unlike the Army Reserve has the majority of the combat troops, and many of us have been on one, and sometimes two or three tours in support of OIF or OEF. Your "friend's Army reserve unit may be filled with incompetent Soldiers", as you say, but then again perhaps your friend is individually incompetent and can't comprehend what the others are doing. As a former Active Duty Army Soldier and now Full Time National Guard Soldier who has been to Iraq and will be going to Afghanistan after the new year I think that your comments are a slap in the face to every stateside service member in the Active and the Reserve component.
Glad to see that you reconsidered your post. I think it takes a big person to admit a mistake. Thanks for listening.
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