Hundreds of remains of fallen heroes sent to the dump
ROS, VTWoody and Old Trooper have been sending us links to this story in the Washington Post about how Air Force personnel somehow decided to dispose of the remains of hundreds of fallen warriors at the local landfill;
The landfill disposals were never formally authorized under military policies or regulations. They also were not disclosed to senior Pentagon officials who conducted a high-level review of cremation policies at the Dover mortuary in 2008, records show.
Air Force and Pentagon officials said last month that determining how many remains went to the landfill would require searching through the records of more than 6,300 troops whose remains have passed through the mortuary since 2001.
So, find the fucksticks who did it and make them sort the shit out under the strict supervision of some combat warriors. They must know who did this dastardly deed. Find ’em and fuck ’em. It’s one thing when bureaucrats did that screwy shit at Arlington, it’s quite another when active duty people do it.
Category: Military issues, Shitbags
Burn these fuckers. No mercy.
In several cultures, desecration of and dishonoring the dead like this would be punishable by death following several various methods of torture. In our society, they receive a pension.
Nice. Somebody had better fucking pay for this.
Find ’em, publish their names, allow them to explain why they did what they did so that they can hear their own feeble and worthless words again and again and again. Then make them spend the remainder of their lives trimming the surrounding grass OUTSIDE of veterans cemeteries using tweezers.
“Air Force and Pentagon officials said last month that determining how many remains went to the landfill would require searching through the records of more than 6,300 troops whose remains have passed through the mortuary since 2001.”
Then they better get cracking, the bastards.
Perhaps a fitting punishment might be doing yardwork for the families of the deceased? Think shoveling snow with a hand trowel while barefoot and such.
I volunteer to help arrange and supervise the punishment. After all, we retired AF should get first crack at this degenerates. The rest of y’all can handle the DoD folks.
There are no sufficient excuses or explanations.
What pisses me off almost as much as the dishonoring of the remains of America’s honored war dead is that certain segments will use this as just another way to discredit the entire endeavor in Iraq. Take a look at those WaPo comments on the article. Just as Abu Ghraib became their favorite means to discredit America now these disgusting incidents will become just another disposable bash the war/America/Bush-Cheney/U.S Military point.
OWB: What started this all was a woman that didn’t want the remains back. So, for those that don’t want the remains, fine, but the military should have placed the urns in a National Cemetery with full military honors. THAT would have been the proper thing to do. Now we know that the expediant thing was done, not the proper thing.
Fucking bastards.
Absolutely, OT!
OWB is correct, “There are no sufficient excuses or explanations.” Hopefully ‘they’ won’t try to justify what has been done by making excuses.
AGEFMB: “But,But Jersy Shore was coming on in 5 minutes”/sarc off.
May I suggest an old-fashioned keel-hauling followed by a dousing in rubbing alcohol for these incompetents.
We could only wish this was an example of incompetence; what it was, however, was a deliberate act of inhumanity. Somebody made the deliberate decision to treat someone else’s remains in a manner that they would NEVER want used with their remains, or someone they care about.
Punishment isn’t enough. I vote for PERSECUTION.
May I suggest an old-fashioned keel-hauling
But do it on an aircraft carrier, just so they’ll never forget.
Maybe a Maldivian flogger is available to get things started?
I am absolutely nauseated.
The responsible parties should be made to find all of the improperly dumped remains – by hand. No excuses for age or handicap.
Of course, we could always insist that their final resting place be with those whose memories they desecrated. “When you die – we’re going to bury your carcass in the landfill.”
I have no words. Old Trooper said it for me. Shocked and disgusted don’t even say it. Hell…I’ll take them and build a memoral garden out back for Christ’s sake.
Honor and Courage
%$#@! And this was done by Air Force types who used to lecture me on caring for people. The article I read said the CO was “disciplined, but not sacked”. So, he doesn’t get a Brigadier star? Oh, the humanity!
%$#@!
And I was trying to clean up my language.
This is disgusting…right on the heels of the Arlington scandal, the families of deceased veterans have to endure more.
Oh, darn. You didn’t use what I said when I sent you that article… Yeah, I had blood squirting out of my eyes as I was reading that and scared the hell out of my wife when I yelled at the computer.
I was at a loss for words when I read about this. The quote from the post
“It would require a massive effort and time to recall records and research individually,” Jo Ann Rooney, the Pentagon’s acting undersecretary for personnel, wrote in a Nov. 22 letter to Rep. Rush D. Holt (D-N.J.).
Ok so get at it, plus I think every fuck stick that had any knowledge of this on should have the duty of standing guard at that landfill like they do at the tomb of the unknown until every bit of the remains of our fallen in that landfill are Identified and given the burial that they deserved. Cant be done you say? well we have the rest of their sorry lives to work on it.
I hope that God damns their worthless souls for eternity.
Hate to say this folks, the scumbags will find a scapegoat. That person or those persons will get UCJM. Cue the canine and equine extravaganza where the DoD shows that it’s “investigating”. Cue CYA on the part of the real perps.
Hopefully I’ll be proven wrong. If high level GS and senior leadership get jail time then I’ll back off. Till then, expect the junior-junior servicemembers to be offered up for sacrifice.
“The Air Force disciplined – but did not fire – three senior supervisors at Dover, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has ordered a review of that decision.”
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“It took Gari-Lynn Smith more than four years to learn what happened to the final remains of her husband, an Army sergeant killed in Iraq.”
“Gary-Lynn said she owed it to the legacy of her husband – a man who helped stranded motorists in snowstorms and who wore a big, mischievous smile that ‘let us know that he knew something that the rest of us just didn’t know or didn’t get.'”
“He was a kind man, she said, and a man who took on a job assignment that others would run away from because he understood the honor and importance in saving lives and honoring those lost.”
“‘Scott would be completely disgusted,'” she said of the way the remains were handled. “‘If he were here, I believe he would be helping me in this fight.”‘
All of the foregoing is from an AP update, 10 December 2011.
No, I can’t quite let this go. Sergeant First Class Scott Smith, age 34, whose widow’s perseverance brought this disgraceful story to light, was killed on 17 July 2006 when he stepped on a pressure plate while working to disarm an IED in Iraq. He was with 737th Explosive Ordnance Detachment, 52nd Ordnance Group, Fort Belvoir, Va. His picture shows a smiling bear of a man. God bless him and his family.
No one should let this go. Just keep us informed as you press on with it, AC.