Reply #2: As much damage as Viet Nam did to our military

[Coastie for Truth]

the Bush Administration's record of--

1) "On the cheap" - scrimping on vehicle armor, scrimping on body armor, scrimping on post-active duty medical care for service connected conditions - just to name the most egregious.

2) "People Mismanagement" - from insufficient "boots on the ground" to "stop loss" orders to, again, health care. And, insufficient JAG corps support of service members in Servicemen's Civil Relief Act issues and on-base insurance and investment scams by "financial advisers" (military only took action after a blow up on the blogs).

3) "Evangelization of the Military" - whether the issue described in the NYT editorial, or what is happening at the Air Force Academy, or the reported "promotion and retention" discrimination in the Chaplaincy Corps in favor of Evangelicals.

4) "Misuse of the Guard and Reserve" - Abu Ghraib - the Reservists/Guardsmen were "set up" - from Karpinski down to Charlie Grainer and Lyndie England. Again, the "stop loss" orders, and the breach of the unwritten, "wink and nod" social contracts as to lengths of deployments. Again, the health care issue.

Remember - the Guard is the Governor's disaster response army - and during the Hurricanes the Florida National Guard had to rely on "Mutual Assistance" with Guard support from other states. We just don't have the bandwidth for a bad hurricane season in the east and a major earthquake in the west. And that is the Guard's primary mission.

borders on fraud, waste, abuse, and treason.

The "chicken hawks", with Chicken Hawk in Chief Bush, are destroying the military for the benefit of their plutocrats.