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Originally Posted by Jimellow
I will admit I may be wrong about the letter, and that logic would dictate the writers are writing more for the defense of Rumsfield, than the soldier portrayed, but I also have trouble accepting the fact that they are heartless bastards that take no issue with their soldiers being featured/represnted in cartoons in such a injured condition.
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I can agree with this. I don't know the Joint Chiefs pasts, but in most cases they have risen up through the ranks and my experience in the military is that the officers that truly cared for their men and did their best to treat their men with the utmost respect, were the ones who advanced faster and farther than those who treated the men like shit and tried to buck for a promotion.
GOod example of this is my Suppo who treated us like shit on the ship, he was stuck at Lt. for a few years and forced to resign at that level because he would never advance. He was fucking scum of the Earth and I would never do shit for that man unless ordered to. He was a piece of shit slimeball and deserved his fate.
Yet, the ship's XO (Executive Officer) was the most fair, decent and respectful man I ever met in the Navy (and was one of the most influential, greatest men I have met in any period of my life) and he advanced quite well and quite far. I will always have the greatest respect for that man, and would have followed him anywhere and known that in times of crisis he'd put his life down for any single man on that ship.