The Associated Press and its
related member newspapers have
always used formula
stories to depict
news stories of active duty troops
and Veterans, and it's our goal
to change that whole idea and
rock their world on that point.

Formula stories have only
served our national imaging in the
military context in a very limited
way, and it is the root cause of
why the public has such a skewed
and less than accurate familiarization
with the REAL issues which lurks
in our community.

The ICON war hero idea has really
taken a beating in the duration of
Iraq. This is inner urban warfare
within a tight civilian population
which cannot allow regular U.S.
military tactics when held in
comparison to Vietnam where it's
an all out field chase.

This severely limits the Valor
opportunities that goes with
such a scenario, and the combat
medals are fewer, because the
risks are greater when trying
to close down an insurgent force
amidst another crowd of civilians -
almost all the time.

AP has also sought to lock out
post service Veterans who are
seeking to OUT the VA and it's
cronies with it's vast underworld
of corruption. In other words,
the news media has attempted to
trap all of us as Troops-In-A-Box
or Vets-In-A-Box, and in the final
scheme of things, the entire idea
falls apart.

Military types are wanting for
much more mainstream news that
really interests them, while
the public imaging we get is
not exactly representative of the
26 million of us who have come
and gone through the duty system.

This is a situation further fueled
by Parrot-Head Veterans themselves,
who are of the mistaken idea that
we are still living in the 1940's
and that honor and bravado worship
is the only thing to focus on when
speaking on or depicting news
releases on Vet or Troop cases.
It's time to get REAL boys, and know
that we live in a different world
now, and it is no longer fashionable
in our community to blanketly say
that bravado worship is appropriate
in every single case.

Our enemies at the VA and Congress,
after all, ARE "other Veterans"
as is our Republican President who
fights us tooth and nail on every
little budget allocation.

The recent deluge of bad press
stemming from Troop or Vet criminal
types, the murders and what not,
has left the Associated Press
without a clear sense of direction
on how to depict us military types,
outside of murderers in waiting,
ready to pop out of nowhere to
do the most horrific crimes imagineable.

Associated Press and it's membership
really does have to start focusing
on what WE ourselves have said all
along in this journey through war:
It's the Recruiting, Stupid!

The Department of Defense is no longer
pulling from the former Boy Scout
crowd who grew up to be a man and
took their survivor skills to the
next level. It is homeless shelter
bums, former juvenile group homes,
drug rehab facilities, Special Education
high school classes, and young people
already in a downward spiral looking
to the Armed Forces to rescue them
in spite of it all.

Moral Waivers has opened a new
door in military recruiting which
we strongly OBJECT
to, and it endangers the lives of
everyone around them whenever even
ONE is allowed to get past the
recruiting standards at the front
door.

Surprisingly, there has not been
a LOT of backlash crimes stemming
from Gays In The Military, or at least,
not as much as first feared when it
was forced onto everyone by Bill Clinton
back in the 90's. No, what we are
seeing coming out of the mudholes
of nuts are the age old family member
crimes, domestic crimes, and boyfriend/girlfriend issues resembling
the very same carryover that we so
typically see coming out of local
neighborhoods in the civilian world.

There are those who have tried to
excuse this away on PTSD, but as
I have exposed in the other chat blogs
posted in this FORUM, this is not even
true either. No, we are seeing horrific
crimes coming from people who have
never been to a war zone. [b]So there ya
have it !![/]

The Associated Press absolutely DOES
need to point it's investigate report
guns right into the crosshairs of
the Armed Forces Recruiting Command.
That is IT in a nutshell, and there
aren't many more ways to elaborate
on that point.

Military Recruiting has suffered a
massive MELTDOWN and it's time that the
AP starts getting on their backs
with investigative reports. They have
single handedly created an environment
where women troops in particular, are
deceived into enlisting, and then are
unknowingly subjected to an environment
of danger that works to defeat their
own sensibilities about self-protection.
Furthermore, the Recruiting Command
is not under any mandate whatsoever
to NOTIFY or INFORM them that they
are about to enter one of the most
unsafe environments for women known
to mankind --- not because it has always
been that way, but because it is
more than ever slipping down the
slope of anybody who has a beating
heart is allowed through the doors
of military recruiting offices.

In past war periods, the DRAFT has
also contributed largely to the Muck
Crowd who are high risk, unstable,
and not exactly meeting the standards
of what a D.I. would want to start
with in shaping the soldier of the
future. But in todays world, we are
seeing women undesireables as well
as the men, and this with no Draft
in place. That speaks volumes and
points to the Recruiting Command itself.

Whatever is going on in todays military
recruiting, is something we have
never seen before. War crimes always
do happen, and this is an unpreventable
fact of life. It is collateral damage
to the combat scenario itself. You've
got people with DAYS of no sleep, sometimes
bad food, heat or cold temps, you name
it and they are all sitting on high
powered kill rifles and mass destruction
equipment so there are no surprises there
that such an environment would yield the
occassional war crimes story.

But this is NOT what the news is
generating these days. The military
recruiting command is digging from
a pile of undesireables who are
all by themselves, single-handedly
sabotaging the public image and
honor standards of the U.S. military
itself, and all the other millions
upon millions of those who measure
up and are in it because they belong
there.

Military Generals in the future, will
absolutely have to face the reality
that high risk populations are NOT
a viable recruiting source, and what
they bring in with mental baggage alone
can disrupt an entire base if it
all goes to Hell in a handbasket before
just one Pop Goes The Weasel shows himself
before even getting to a war zone.

Associated Press is called upon to
begin taking on the Military Recruiting
Command for their failures, weaknesses,
and even subversive attempts to sabotage
the entire concept of military service
and all that it holds, with their nonsense
to nowhere with pulling from the least
desireable venues possible to gleen
body counts to advance their own
personal records and bonuses, and to
supply a war requiring top notch and
stellar professional types, instead,
with psychopaths on the verge of snapping,
and overtly high risk types who will
not last 60 days beyond boot camp
without a crime incident in tow.

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