Whoulda Thunk????

Posted By Subsunk

What if there were some catastrophe in a distant foreign land? Think tsunami, floods, earthquakes, fires, etc... and many hundreds of thousands of people were suffering through the circumstances of this act of Nature.  Who would you expect to be there with humanitarian aid, blankets, money, food?  The US military, correct? Correct.

Except it seems Coalition Military Assistance Training Teams are good for something else besides teaching professional warfare to our allies. How often have I said the US military is the finest ambassador of American values and interests ever? I think the last time we had a catastrophe of natural proportions here in the US, only the Japanese and Canadians and Australians chipped in to send support back down the pipeline the opposite way...towards the needy in the, wait for it,.... United States?????? Methinks the standards and values of our Men in the Training Teams are rubbing off on our new allies, doncha' think?

Rich Lowry (Marines in the Garden of Eden) posted on OPFOR today about an Iraqi Army battalion that sent its support to victims of the San Diego (a Navy town, I might add) fires. And our MSM didn't pick up a hint of this story. Not at all. Not even a whimper, whisper, or wet willie of a peep. Nada, nyet, nein, nothing. Such outstanding journalism. When you google Sgt Ist Class Charlene Sipperley, search engines come up with goose eggs. I guess to a google, or excite, or yahoo, or dogpile, jeeves or any other "so called objective" search engines out there, writing stories as an Army journalist doesn't merit inclusion in journalism.

Nimrods. But I repeat myself.

Read the story. It's a good'un.

Subsunk out.

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Whoulda Thunk????

What if there were some catastrophe in a distant foreign land? Think tsunami, floods, earthquakes, fires, etc... and many hundreds of thousands of people were suffering through the circumstances of this act of Nature.  Who would you expect to be there with humanitarian aid, blankets, money, food?  The US military, correct? Correct.

Except it seems Coalition Military Assistance Training Teams are good for something else besides teaching professional warfare to our allies. How often have I said the US military is the finest ambassador of American values and interests ever? I think the last time we had a catastrophe of natural proportions here in the US, only the Japanese and Canadians and Australians chipped in to send support back down the pipeline the opposite way...towards the needy in the, wait for it,.... United States?????? Methinks the standards and values of our Men in the Training Teams are rubbing off on our new allies, doncha' think?

Rich Lowry (Marines in the Garden of Eden) posted on OPFOR today about an Iraqi Army battalion that sent its support to victims of the San Diego (a Navy town, I might add) fires. And our MSM didn't pick up a hint of this story. Not at all. Not even a whimper, whisper, or wet willie of a peep. Nada, nyet, nein, nothing. Such outstanding journalism. When you google Sgt Ist Class Charlene Sipperley, search engines come up with goose eggs. I guess to a google, or excite, or yahoo, or dogpile, jeeves or any other "so called objective" search engines out there, writing stories as an Army journalist doesn't merit inclusion in journalism.

Nimrods. But I repeat myself.

Read the story. It's a good'un.

Subsunk out.

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