Military - March 2007

The troop surge isn't working so he wants to surge some more?

2007-03-11 08:17:07 · 21 answers · asked by cheri b 5

2007-03-11 08:14:39 · 4 answers · asked by zipper 1

Does anyone have any idea when Arkansas troops will be set for deployment again ? We have heard October but Im not sure ! Any ideas or suggestions on when this maybe. ANY information will be so helpful. THANKS A BUNCH

2007-03-11 08:13:28 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

im going to be stationed @ Port hueneme in September. is there anything to do there? Hows the base?

Im a fmf corpsman

2007-03-11 08:01:51 · 3 answers · asked by Nick H 2

I just joined the Navy, scheduled to leave for basic training in June. A week after I swore in and signed my contract my Navy recruiter calls me and says that MEPS did my background check and I have a warrant from not completing my community service hours from a "Theft Under $300" charge from 1998, but my recruiter, a few other people and i have called the central processing staion,the court houses, court clerks, and police stations, and they all say there is no record of me having any warrants. Now the Navy might not want to take me in, how is this possible???

2007-03-11 07:58:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

In January of 2007 I received a phone call that my mother in-law was in the hospital. She was just going in to have Gall Bladder surgery. I notified my husband it was a simple easy surgery. My mother in-law came out of the surgery ok sick but ok. Two days later I receive another phone call saying she is bleeding out and needs emergency surgery. So I then sent another message to my husband letting him know. Naturally he was worried. So she came out ok and ended up having her spleen removed. I notified my husband once again that she was ok. One day later I received another call from the hospital that his mom was dieing and had to have another surgery to release pressure in her stomach. There was so much swelling that her heart, lungs was failing. So she ended up on life support. I sent my first Red Cross message for my husband to return home. Well he came home and mom got a little better, but then crashed again. We had so much to take care of for her. Her finances, medical bills, insurance, disability, social security and legal affairs were all needing to be taken care of. With only a short leave granted, and no will, or power of attorney there was little he could get accomplished. The hospital did give him all medical say so, because he was the only one his mom had and she had told her case worker that she wanted him to, in case something happened to her. When his leave was up he left to go back to Iraq without having time to take care of everything and with dealing with his mother telling him, “please don’t leave me son”. Once I was back home, and he was on his way back to Iraq the phone calls started coming in with her health going up and down, as well as the hospital needing him there to make decisions for her.. So I had to email him and do what I could to get him on the phone with the hospital. Then with the hospitals guidance, we sent another Red Cross message to get him home for his mom. The message was sent with all the proper info from Doctors and Administration. I could not make these decisions, or handle any of her affairs. No one would even talk to me about them. The Army then refused to send him home, just because he had been home prior to this for the same reason. As we all know it takes time to get things in order and done. So I went to his chain of command here in the states. They have been so helpful. They verified that all the information was true, and he really needed to be sent back to take care of his mother’s affairs, and to be with her. All I hear from the rear command is he will be leaving the next day, or soon they will have him on a flight. After three weeks and matters getting worse, he is still not home. From over in Iraq he is not being told nothing, and later finding out that it has been denied three times. I can not understand why his battalion will not release him to come back to take care of his mother. My husband is not the only solider this is happening to. I am hearing more and more of this kind of thing happening in this unit, I just wonder if it is an Army wide dilemma. The Army's Saying is, "Soldiers and Family Always," Where's that coming into play here. There's nobody that can make decisions on his mothers behalf but him. The Army is playing politics with me, and giving us the run around. They tell you what you want to hear. The command here at Division level has been more than helpful but why does the middle guy seem to have a problem with taking care of one of his soldiers and family, like he told us before my husband was sent over there. Well the battalion commander is mad at me because I over stepped him, and now my husband and his mom has to pay for it. Why does the Army let him get away with it? They still today are refusing to send him home and delaying everything that is being sent from Division. I have the 1st Cav Division here fighting to have him home and over in Iraq a Battalion Commander that is refusing to let him come home because I over stepped him, to take care of my family. If the shoe was on the other foot, I bet things would be different. Can somebody put a stop to the way our soldiers and when I say that I am meaning husbands, wives, sons, and daughters are being treated over seas by commands that say one thing but do another. This needs to end here and now! We need to wake up and realize that they are human and if they are worried about home and not the job at hand over there in Iraq then somebody is going to get hurt or killed because someone was not in the right state of mind. Then they will see that our soldiers are not robots. It should not take that for them to see they are human too. We all want them home, we know there is a war at hand and they are needed there, but we need them home too for family issues as well. PLEASE STOP AND LET THE PUBLIC KNOW HOW THEY ARE REALLY BEING TREATED SO OUR FUTURE SOLIDERS DO NOT GET THE SAME TREATMEANT.

2007-03-11 07:57:45 · 7 answers · asked by christy_freddie2003 1

Well some migh tknow this..Ofcourse you kno whow you have to be a MINIMUM of O-3 to be accepted for Civil Affairs, PsyOps, SF, etc. training correct? OR a O-4 to be accepted for FOA. Well can a Major still apply for SF, and can a LTC still apply for FAO? If not, anyone know why? (by the way, this is just a question, im not an officer)

2007-03-11 07:47:08 · 1 answers · asked by iknato0n 3

2007-03-11 07:41:16 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was curious as to whether the medals and ribbons I've earned as an enlisted person would go with me to the Naval Academy and stay with me as an officer were I to get an appointment to the Academy. Thank you.

2007-03-11 07:21:38 · 5 answers · asked by newnam87 1

That's on top of the countless he asked for in January.

2007-03-11 06:56:15 · 13 answers · asked by Bud's Girl 6

The best answers will cite reliable sources.

2007-03-11 06:46:17 · 8 answers · asked by Fialka 2

The Soviet Union had occupied Afghanistan for several years and, like we are considering, pulled out very quickly because things weren't going well. This left a power vacuum that Al Qeida and the Taliban quickly filled, giving them a safe place to plan and train for 9-11.
How come we now want to make this same mistake in Iraq?

2007-03-11 06:42:41 · 9 answers · asked by Bob S 1

2007-03-11 06:34:04 · 20 answers · asked by pmilla 1

Please help!!!
Thanks!!!

2007-03-11 06:02:54 · 13 answers · asked by Queen.Desiree.of.Blues 2

I'd be interested in hearing from any current or retired military personnel, specifically British but all are welcome to answer. I have applied to join the Grenadier Guards as an Officer after I graduate (summer 07)- but some of my friends already in the Army (they are all NCOs in the Royal Signals) have told me that the Guards are just pompous and are in existence purely for the ceremony.

Also they have told me that, whilst having a state school education is no hinderance in becoming an Army Officer, I'd be ripped apart in the Guards for not being of the right 'breed'.

Is there any truth to this or are my friends pulling my leg?

Thanks

2007-03-11 05:56:14 · 10 answers · asked by Horatio 1

Im in the military and I know about the deity move, but I want to know if the military pays for my spouse to relocate to my location?

2007-03-11 05:54:22 · 8 answers · asked by kingiam_21 1

2007-03-11 05:51:36 · 16 answers · asked by denn v 1

I have made several replies to some questions and I had mentioned you-tube. That there was allot of INFORMATION on there.

Then out of the blue I get a bunch of fire back from some people who either don't know or they ARE REPUBLICANS and trying to throw DOUBT in your mind like they do 24/7/365.

I remember news cast form CNN NEWS.......the TLC channel and other tv news organizations ON YOU-TUBE.. Well those some people shouted back at me saying "who is you-tube now and what athority they are or have. Making some people wonder.......no...no....no.....one more time....you-tube is JUST A WEB SITE! These links or address is ONLY for people who would like to know more than YOU! Oh PBS.org/frontline is also in there.
I guess that fabricated stuff also. Shows Bush in CLASSROOM as we're being attacked.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/about.html

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qHc8Nu2HPA&mode=related&search=

2007-03-11 05:40:27 · 3 answers · asked by lester6801 1

Ive been listening to the debate on the replacement for the Trident missile system, my own view is yes. However what do others think.

2007-03-11 05:32:54 · 15 answers · asked by andrew j 1

2007-03-11 05:09:19 · 19 answers · asked by American breed 3

they are the ones who love there freedom and yet they burn the flag at the same time...

2007-03-11 05:05:01 · 19 answers · asked by American breed 3

2007-03-11 04:58:05 · 3 answers · asked by rostov 5

2007-03-11 04:52:57 · 12 answers · asked by rockandrollguy72 2

2007-03-11 04:30:57 · 18 answers · asked by Gwabtal-Dom 1

2007-03-11 04:18:13 · 11 answers · asked by frappe 1

are going to have to stay there forever why not just conquer Iraq & turn it into one big military base so it will never become a terror state, it would be the perfect place to fight the war on terror, & Iran would be scared to death?

2007-03-11 04:02:27 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I thought matters we getting better...not worse?

2007-03-11 03:57:51 · 8 answers · asked by Maria T 2

2007-03-11 03:51:52 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm getting really sick of the kindergarten playground handling of a very serious war. First we had Geraldo drawing a map in the sand showing the world where his group was going to make a left turn and cut over - barf - why didn't someone shoot him? He was with the troops, he was a potential target and telling Saddams troops when and where he was coming. Journalists don't have brains enough to analize what they see. They only see the scoop, the story, the I'm first and I get a by line and a bonus for this. Yesterday Yahoo News 3/10/07 a General is interviewed by a journalist from AP he gives details of troop movements that are coming up at specific locations in actual combat zones where people have been killed. The stupid reporters ask the stupid question and they get the damn answer - CLICK - it's on the internet. It is time for me to run this thing. I'll tell the news agencies where to park their camels.

2007-03-11 03:50:14 · 5 answers · asked by Kenny Ray 3

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and look at that girl DG

2007-03-11 03:49:39 · 7 answers · asked by lexmlo 5