Some wounded soldiers ‘punished for injuries

[sabra]

Source: MSNBC/AP

FORT BRAGG, North Carolina - Staff Sgt. Jason Jonas says when he goes to bed at night, he is terrified his medication will cause him to oversleep and miss morning roll call again.

His commanders are fully aware the paratrooper wounded in Afghanistan has been diagnosed with a sleep disorder, because he is one of about 10,000 soldiers assigned to the Army's Warrior Transition units, created for troops recovering from injuries.

Instead of gingerly nursing them back to health, however, commanders at Fort Bragg's transition unit readily acknowledge holding them to the same standards as able-bodied soldiers in combat units, often assigning chores as punishment for minor infractions.

In fact, the unit has a discipline rate three times as high as Fort Bragg's main tenant, the 82nd Airborne Division, and transition units at two other bases punish their soldiers even more frequently than the one at Fort Bragg, according to an Associated Press review of records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29620210/

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[damntexdem]

2. Time for the Administration to look into the torture, errr, 'transition' units.

Soldiers are "helped, not harmed, by maintaining an appropriate level of structure and military discipline." Yes, and the floggings will continue until morale improves.

Those who leave receive "low-balled disability rating and benefits" -- just the thing to reward those injured in combat.

The officers in charge of these 'transition units' deserve a loud, military response: "Sir, fuck you, sir!"