Comments on: Dept of Army Suicide and Immigration: General Freakley finds himself unmanned

By: Lola2

Lola2 — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:27:13 +0000

Another point, do we think it makes sense to confirm GEN Martin Dempsey, for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs? He just came out of TRADOC and was over USAAC and USAREC. When you go into the Stars and Stripes articles and read the comments from all the bullies who think military suicides are justifiable and just the price of doing business you may very well conclude that they learned this philosophy from TRADOC – “Doctrine” Command. Do not ocnfirm GEN Martin Dempsaey for Chairman – there are another 400 active duty Army Generals to move up. Pick another one.

By: Lola2

Lola2 — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:39:02 +0000

Praise the Lord or your lord whatever the case may be. Go to Stars and Stripes! Since last Thursday they have been running two in depth stories about suicides at Army that were provoked! By the chain of command! Are you shocked? Are you going to pass out from this incredulous bit of information that we have been shouting from the roof tops for some time now? Thank you, Stars and Stripes, thank you. Commanding General and former Deputy Commanding General MG David L Mann, recently promoted to his second star – what a shock! Let’s see your DoD-SER – time to quit harassing and bullying current and former USAREC employees who speak up!

By: Lola2

Lola2 — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:41:04 +0000

Bravo! On April 20, 2011, the Army announced that Lt Gen Benjamin “NASCAR” Freakley, CG of U S Army Accessions Command (USAAC),the command over U S Army Recruiting Command (USAREC) – he would be retiring and the Army is deactivating his “Kingdom”/Command, effective end of FY 2012. Next piece of business should be putting the combat vets/Army Recruiters back in their tactical MOS’s and converting all 7,500 Recruiter postions to unemployed American civilians, with backgronds in marketing, and sales! Win-win. The Army gains 7,500 soldiers back and the unemployed taxpayers get a job! Happy Easter/holiday to all!

By: Lola2

Lola2 — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:58:14 +0000

The suicides continue at USAREC. It’s just a revolving door for promotions for their Generals under TRADOC, (the umbrella command). 4 star GEN Martin Dempey, TRADOC, moved to become Joint Chief; LT GEN Benjamin Freakley continues to enjoy his 3 star status at U S Army Accessions Command (USAAC) and continue his honcho-ing of his very important program “NASCAR”; the former USAREC Dep CG and CG, got his ticket punched and promoted to III Corp and Fort Hood, TX; and the newest CG for USAREC and newly promoted to his 2 star is MG David L Mann, the former Deputy CG of USAREC. USAREC is made up of 6 Brigades and 46 Battalions. In one BN alone, for the month of Feb 2011, they had 13 cases of Recruiter suicide ideation/attempts. Don’t they get it? When you have four back to back combat tours, odds are you are going to hate being harassed to death by NCO’s and CSM’s and the Officers. May I remind everyone – it only takes a C average to be accepted in the Officer Corps. We are not dealing with MENSA members here. So why do they think we should treat them like geniuses? Look at this suicide mess – they refuse all accountability. Bless the hearts and souls of our Army.

By: Lola2

Lola2 — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:41:09 +0000

USAREC had a change of command ceremony on Feb 17, 2011, and brought back a former USAREC DG as the new CG. More of the same or…….?

By: ed

ed — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:17:02 +0000

A funny thing happened on the way to the Military Industrial investment conference

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/business/12nocera.html

THAT is the War Room. No fighting. Room for everybody at the trough.

By: ed

ed — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:58:40 +0000

Congress.org worries aloud:

For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.congress.org/news/2011/01/24/more_troops_lost_to_suicide

By: ed

ed — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:32:04 +0000

Pentagon says 2010 saw a dip in Regular Army suicides after five years of record increases.

But 2010 also saw suicides among “citizen soldiers” — National Guard, Reservists, etc — DOUBLE.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/19/AR2011011902969.html

By: ed

ed — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:18:30 +0000

More of the same — except here now the Pentagon seems unwilling to call it suicide.

Rather: Death by “injuries sustained in a noncombat related incident.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/world/asia/02suicide.html?hp

By: ed

ed — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:34:22 +0000

Another follow up at Democracy Now
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/18/wars_hidden_death_toll_after_service