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SFC Alwyne Cashe and the MoH – Maybe We Can Help
I trust everyone reading this saw Jonn’s article about SFC Alwyne Cashe the other day. If not, you need follow the link and read it – now – along with the LA Times article to which Jonn links. While I trust that the Army will eventually do the right thing, that’s not a lock. Even […]
The Little Drummer Boy . . . General
We often say that truth is stranger than fiction. We say that because, well, it’s true. If someone told you that a lad had (1) run away from home to join the Army at age 9; (2) was a Sergeant at age 12; (3) by age 13 was a twice-wounded, exchanged POW, and had been […]
Just When You Thought the Army’s Uniform Games Had Ended . . .
. . . it turns out that’s not the case. According to the Army Times, the Army has announced that, because of adoption of the new Operational Camouflage Pattern, additional new uniform items will be required. Specifically, soldiers will need new boots, t-shirts, and belts to go with the new camouflage uniforms. Now, maybe new […]
Mustangs bear brunt of Army manpower cuts
The New York Times reports that Mustangs (officers who were once enlisted soldier) are three times more likely to get their pink slip than a West Point grad; Many of those former enlisted officers had been encouraged to make the jump to the officer corps between 2006 and 2009 when the Iraq war was raging […]
Amy Apodaca; stolen smarts
Kevin sends us an Associated Press article about Amy Apodaca, an Army contracted civilian who was a statistician at the Army Institute of Surgical Research in San Antonio until early this year when it was discovered that she had none of the college education that she claimed when she was hired; Officials at both schools […]
CSM Daniel A. Dailey named Sergeant Major of the Army
The Stars & Stripes reports that Command Sgt. Maj. Daniel A. Dailey has been named the new Sergeant Major of the Army – an infantryman and a Ranger. Dailey joined the Army in 1989 and served in Germany as a radio telephone operator and rifleman for his first assignment, according to his Army biography. He […]
Army drawing down too fast?
Chief Tango sends us a link to the Army Times which quotes Lieutenant General James McConville, the Army’s G-1 guy who thinks that maybe the Army is down-sizing a little too quickly; “We are very concerned that because of the strategic considerations, we may be driving very close to the curve as we move forward,” […]
“Toxic” LTC Tammy Baugh back on the job
The Stars & Stripes reports that an aviation battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Tammy Baugh was removed from her position, along with her sergeant major when the Fort Carson command structure received complaints that she had been verbally abusive to her subordinates, threw things at them and stormed out of events and meetings when she was […]
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