BlackFive

Not somewhere I would want to be...

Regardless of your individual opinion of Michael Yon, this story is drawing fire from about every hasty and prepared firing position that can reach it from their sector. 

Evidently, Rolling Stone magazine is doing it's level best to attract more mouth-breathing leftist lunatics to the ranks of their subscribers by attempting to take what has been called President Obama's "Abu Ghraib" (with virtually ZERO coverage in the Old Media BTW) and mold it and shape it to fit their warped libturd world view.  Not that anyone would be surprised by this, but this steaming pile of cat guano that passes for something the editors at Rolling Stone blessed off on as acceptable for general consumption for all and called by the title "journalism" is being called out.

As it should be.  By someone who was there and can stand to rebut such rubbish...

Seldom do I waste time with rebutting articles, and especially not from publications like Rolling Stone. Today, numerous people sent links to the latest Rolling Stone tripe. The story is titled “THE KILL TEAM, THE FULL STORY.” It should be titled: “BULLSHIT, from Rolling Stone.”

The story—not really an “article”—covers Soldiers from 5/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) in Afghanistan. A handful of Soldiers were accused of murder. It does in fact appear that a tiny group of rogues committed premeditated murder. I was embedded with the 5/2 SBCT and was afforded incredible access to the brigade by the Commander, Colonel Harry Tunnell, and the brigade Command Sergeant Major, Robb Prosser. I know Robb from Iraq. Colonel Tunnell had been shot in Iraq.

The brigade gave me open access. I could go anywhere, anytime, so long as I could find a ride, which never was a problem beyond normal combat problems. If they had something to hide, it was limited and I didn’t find it. I was not with the Soldiers accused of murder and had no knowledge of this. It is important to note that the murder allegations were not discovered by media vigilance, but by, for instance, at least one Soldier in that tiny unit who was appalled by the behavior. A brigade is a big place with thousands of Soldiers, and in Afghanistan they were spread thinly across several provinces because we decided to wage war with too few troops. Those Soldiers accused of being involved in (or who should have been knowledgeable of) the murders could fit into a minivan. You would need ten 747s for the rest of the Brigade who did their duty. I was with many other Soldiers from 5/2 SBCT. My overall impression was very positive. After scratching my memory for negative impressions from 5/2 Soldiers, I can’t think of any, actually, other than the tiny Kill Team who, to my knowledge, I never set eyes upon.

Steel on target Michael.  These court jesters running wild in their asshaters menagerie needed to be called out and given the good news that there is definitely another side to this whole story. A story about how everyone else seemed to be able to do their duty, except these warts on the behind of the US Armed Forces who decided the line between "combat" and "murder" was a wee bit too blurry for them to care about the difference.

And for all you fellas in the head shed that stop by here now and then to check on us and what we are doing; FFS, why in the world, if the military wants to be the ones controlling the message and deciding through occuptions like PSYOPS, INFOSEC, INFO OPS, Civil Affairs and such, would they let people from such low rent publications like Rolling Stone be embedded, have press access or have any access at all to do these kinds of stories.  Asshats like Matt Taibbi and his ilk over there have an agenda, and it definitely isn't to tell the whole truth, nor to keep it in the larger context.

Everyone else "manages the message" so why not the US Military?  Hello... is this thing on?  If you need some help in running something like this I can send over my resume...

I would prefer that the hacks at Rolling Stone went back to things that have no taste in and no talent for; music.  Let the grown ups do the work of digging for the truth and telling the stories.  I can't believe Earth First lets them kill trees to print their bovine scatology.  Without naked pictures of stars from a vampire show on cable TV, Rolling Stone would be even more irrelevant... 

On the plus side, I think I found a substitute for the liner in Mrs. Deebow's kitty's privy...