local school children send boxes to US troops,how can these troops not have blankets and personal items?

Question

It doesn't make sense to me since every sports event on TV they show US servicepeople watching the games but they don't have deodorant??????

Answer 1

they do have shops in the green zone - more than likely elsewhere too that the army itself supplies. not to mention what the Iraqi's may sell in thier own shops.

example of the Green zone and what it offers -

The Green Zone is certainly a world unto itself. Women in shorts and T shirts jog down broad avenues, and the Pizza Inn does a brisk business from the parking lot of the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy. Near the Green Zone Bazaar, Iraqi kids hawk pornographic DVDs to soldiers. Sheik Fuad Rashid, the U.S.-appointed imam of the local mosque, dresses like a nun, dyes his hair platinum blond and claims that Mary Mother of Jesus appeared to him in a vision (hence the getup). On any given night, residents can listen to karaoke, play badminton or frequent one of several rowdy bars, including an invitation-only speakeasy run by the CIA. At the Green Zone Cafe—where contractors toting 9mm pistols smoke hookahs while an Iraqi drummer provides entertainment—a sign on the door warns customers to empty their weapons before consuming alcohol.

To some, the Green Zone feels like a vast isolation chamber. One recent night at a saloon called The Bunker, a resident contractor asked, "So, what's going on out there in Iraq anyway?" He hadn't left the Green Zone in six months. "It's like Plato's republic in here, all of these well-meaning, smart people who want to do the right thing," says one security contractor and Green Zone regular. "But they never leave here and they have no idea what's happening in the country they're supposed to be building. It's totally absurd."

They also have satellite TV, computers, DVDs, and telephones with U.S. area codes, which function as if they were in New York or Virginia, and thus require people to make long-distance overseas calls even to the city just next door.

The cost of all this is quite amazing: the numbers are uncertain, but on the basis of accounting agreements apparently being worked out among agencies of the federal government, overhead alone amounts to at least $300,000 per person per year. That figure, which appears to be a bare minimum, includes only room, board, and office facilities, and excludes salaries, leaves, and travel, and also the expense to the military of providing protection.

300,000. $ per person per year ???? x roughly 5000 by one account / 2000 at minimum ? you do the math on this waste of taxes - not to mention all the rest of the waste and missing 9 billion bushco can't account for for his lie of a war.

Answer 2

Did you just see the condition of Walter Reed Hospital? Troops were sent there (Iraq, Afganistan) without proper body armor, protection for vehicles, etc. Now that they're coming back wounded (if they come back at all) that's the treatment they receive. Look at the current administration, folks. If you can't walk the walk, don't talk the talk. They don't care about these people!!!

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I think if your over there servicing your country. That everything should be provided for you. That's a shame that your family or someone else has to make sure that you have stuff like that.