Wives led fight to bring 'Ninja Squirrels' home from Iraq

[lebkuchen]

Long after the rest of the newly formed unit won the war and came home, the “Ninja Squirrels” still are baking in the Iraqi desert. Dismayed to learn the soldiers’ commanders planned to keep the platoon past one year — some as long as 16 months — in the interest of unit cohesion, their wives got busy writing letters and buttonholing generals.

“We’ve already done one set of holidays alone, and now we looking at another,” said Colleen Carroll, whose husband, Capt. Mike Carroll, is the 5/158th Aviation’s personnel officer. “It’s a bizarre situation. I don’t know how it happened.”

Their lobbying has apparently paid off.

After two months of being told their husbands would spend a second winter in the Middle East, the wives found out Sunday that the unit has agreed to send the “Ninja Squirrels” home in October.

http://estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=17010

[DagmarK]

1. “It’s a bizarre situation. I don’t know how it happened.”

She really and truly doesn't have a CLUE .....not even a shred of an idea as to HOW THIS HAPPENED???????????????????

Well......if she was either silent or out on a corner spitting on anti-war protesters last fall, Jan, Feb and Mar, then I might need to tell her to shut up, just shut up!

I am glad they are speaking out BUT.....I think a letter apology or something to ANSWER or MOVEON or United4Peace is due from these military spouses!

Sorry to be such a curmudgeon about it.....but the "clueless act" really grates on my nerves.