Comments on: Corruption in Arizona National Guard, from "bum-hunts" to sexual harassment

By: Sparg

Sparg — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 03:46:00 +0000

Right. A Sergeant First Class is a middling non-commissioned officer; an E-7 with NCOs as E-5 through E-9.

By: dethbird

dethbird — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:22:00 +0000

shocking !

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:23:00 +0000

Wrong.

The longer the war continues, the harder it’s proving to fill the U.S. Army’s ranks. A strong economy also means there are easier jobs around. So the Army is accepting a growing number of new recruits with everythging from health and weight issues to lower academic test scores to criminal records. The number of incoming soldiers with prior felony arrests or convictions has more than tripled in the past five years.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-3115199.html
Google search results

By: Amorette Allison

Amorette Allison — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:35:00 +0000

I’m approaching retirement age and my desire to move to Arizona in the winters is dropping fast. Maybe I’ll just endure these Montana winters for a few more years.

By: Peaked

Peaked — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:11:00 +0000

I saw the same, despite Firefox telling me they were enabled. I had to edit the URL from the link to this to get it to work:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/20121013national-guard-republic-special-report.html

The stuff after the question mark seems to be causing the issue.

By: .

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:47:00 +0000

But there’s no danger

It’s a professional career

Though it could be arranged

With just a word in Mr. Churchill’s ear

If you’re out of luck or out of work

We could send you to Johannesburg

By: Scott McDaniel

Scott McDaniel — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:07:00 +0000

You obviously don’t know anyone in the military nor pay much attention. No, the military isn’t the career of choice for a lot of people but they’re definitely not “scraping the bottom of the barrel.” I work for the Army (and have for over 10yrs) and have met hundreds if not thousands of smart, motivated and committed young men and women who enlisted not cause they had no other options but because they wanted the challenge, the training, the tradition, the danger, the pension, the…. Yeah, the news has a lot of negatives, but what you’re seeing is the effect of new-reporting (and the news you read) rather than the day to day reality of the majority of soldiers today.,

By: psulli

psulli — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:59:00 +0000

The US likes to reckon that its intellectual forebearer was the ancient Greeks.

We say Athens, but we mean Sparta.

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:55:00 +0000

How about the guy who found out about it and reported it?
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/20120921arizona-national-guard-misconduct-whistle-blower.html

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:52:00 +0000

Cookies must be enabled to view articles on azcentral.com

By: dragonfrog

dragonfrog — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:50:00 +0000

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Does that help?

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:47:00 +0000

A Freudian clip, you say?

By: acerplatanoides

acerplatanoides — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:21:00 +0000

Any room in that theory that maybe this was targeted marketing?

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:05:00 +0000

I find it hard to respect anyone in uniform full stop.

By: James Agenbroad

James Agenbroad — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:59:00 +0000

Look at it this way, it’s soo much better to see this in a recruiter before you’ve irrevocably signed up for several years than in a superior after your already committed.

By: acerplatanoides

acerplatanoides — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:41:00 +0000

Just so we’re clear on who you’re defending.

By: acerplatanoides

acerplatanoides — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:40:00 +0000

http://www.nndb.com/people/609/000046471/ghraib-cigarette-crop.jpg

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:55:00 +0000

Some of that too, for sure – that’s a US specific side of it I hadn’t considered.

In the UK we don’t have that issue though, our job prospects also aren’t quite as dire as across the pond – so on the most part I chalk joining the army up to wanting to be in the army. Or at least wanting to join the army instead of working in a Warehouse. For me at least I’d pick the warehouse every time, but then some people like the idea of shooting shit.

By: peterkvt80

peterkvt80 — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:49:00 +0000

You think that they are signing up for war? More likely signing up for the only affordable healthcare plan.

By: pacificwaters

pacificwaters — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:42:00 +0000

A SFC is NOT a senior officer.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:20:00 +0000

Almost as bad I guess.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:14:00 +0000

Or a highly paid job in private security.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:28:00 +0000

So he’s off to prison I assume?

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:27:00 +0000

The problem at least with the military is that if you’re signing up now you’re pretty much signing up for an unjust oil war in the middle east. There’s no glory, you’re not ‘protecting your country’, and you’ll be killing a good number of the civilians you’re supposed to be liberating.

I think that probably attracts a slightly different type of individual.

By: atimoshenko

atimoshenko — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:07:00 +0000

Don’t worry, we have James Cameron to save us!

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/i6j49g/the-bar-has-been-raised

By: plyx

plyx — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:19:00 +0000

I wonder which way Amerson’s vote swings?

By: Judas Peckerwood

Judas Peckerwood — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:01:00 +0000

Hah! I’m surprised that he wasn’t promoted to Commanding Officer at Guantanamo. Anyway, I’m sure he has a bright future as a corrections officer in one of our better-quality domestic prisons.

By: Judas Peckerwood

Judas Peckerwood — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:57:00 +0000

Sadists in uniform, you say? When did THAT start?!!!

By: Judas Peckerwood

Judas Peckerwood — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:55:00 +0000

No such thing as reading too much John D. MacDonald, particularly the Travis McGee books.

By: Judas Peckerwood

Judas Peckerwood — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:54:00 +0000

Seriously. We’re talking the subterranean limbo at this point.