RIP Erin Doyle, Goodbye to our Northern Brother
Your MUST READ for today is this article about Canadian Master Corporal Erin Doyle:
Doyle explained that during a pre-deployment speech, the sergeant major complained that 100 per cent of the problems in their unit were caused by 20 per cent of the soldiers. He said it in a much more profane way than that, however.
Some guys, I thought, would hear that speech and silently tick off the troublemakers in his mind, some would smile inside knowing they may well belong to that club, some would embrace it by smiling openly and calling themselves a 20 per center, and then some, probably a very few, maybe only one, would go out and get 20 per cent patches made and have his whole platoon wear them into combat.
That last guy—that was Doyle.
Reminds me of my SFC who was inordinately proud of the fact we led the theater in Article 15’s for a platoon.
Category: Politics
Damn. There was a guy who would have been a pleasure to know! It’s always the good ones, hey?
In my defense, I was just trying to help out with the budget.
TSO Wrote: BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Yeah, this really is my PSG from A-stan. And a better one you couldn’t find. He’s currently in Iraq, probably accounting for 17 of the 20% in that country.
But did you have to try to make up the ENTIRE budget shortfall?
TSO Wrote: Thanks to you and Anon alone we will have an extra F22 coming on line this year.
Bald Man on Trampoline,
Where does the guy that created a website dedicated to the 20% end up on that list?
Wondering,
Sound of the Rising Flair
What a great guy!
RIP Erin Doyle
Best damned eulogy that I ever read! Good man!
nuf sed
Now just wait a minute. I still am fighting to get money they took from me over a damn Fanta….so the F22 isn’t clear just yet!
I can’t really add much to what defendUSA and Frankly Opinionated have said.
Thank you for telling us about Erin Doyle TSO. Seems like more than a fine man. Definitely a loss to humanity.