Just hit the little red “X” on those emails. You have quite a large following that looks fwd to your weekly issues. Keep your head upan never falter. We are behind you 110%.

Ready 6R, out.

Keep it coming. Thanks for your service to your country. Thanks for the continued support of those of us still in uniform. Send Rayne, Dave, Bob, and Mel over here to visit me int he middle east and I will attempt to make Soldiers out of them. Well, maybe that will take more than I got to give, but I would try.

I agree with your post. Just wanted to say thanks again for your opinion.

I fit most elements of your subscribers. Two sons, son-in-law (married to my middle daughter. a veteran) all with multiple tours including Mogadishu (A-2/14, 3-4 Oct. 1993), Afghanistan, and Iraq. A grand-daughter will be an Army nurse. She is in school and belongs to ROTC. She completed jump school at Ft. Benning this summer.

Kind of ironic that armor was denied by Aspin (Clinton) but it was worn out former US armor that finally made the breakthrough in Somalia after our allies finally got off the dime.

Thanks again,

Bill Dunn

While Bill Clinton was drafting his letter of disdain and protesting America overseas, I was sitting in Viet Nam.

Afterwards, sent to Germany where I first ran into shortages and rationing and poorly kept facilities. It struck me as odd that we were billeted in a WW2 SS Kaserne in Nurnberg, still showing pock marks from fighting, while the Germans had new up to date barracks.

Afterwards, sent to Ft. Bragg N.C. which in 1974, were still using WW2 era “temporary” wooden barracks. In April 1975, we sat on dufle bags in the company area waiting for the order to go, as was promised, while Saigon fell to the Communist. As history has recorded, the order never came.

While we had good morale in my unit in Viet Nam and decent morale in Germany, our morale was declining by the time I came back stateside to Ft. Bragg. I was faced with a decision as to stick it out and continue career status, or become a civilian to care for my family I stated along the way.

The election of Jimmy Carter and his subsequent “amnesty” to draft dodgers was the final straw for me. I took it as a “slap in the face” from the President and just could no longer justify remaining in the Military. In the latter half of the 70’s several just decided to seek employment elsewhere rather than continue under a President as Carter. I’m sure you saw this while you were serving.

For those like you that were able to stick it out, you have my admiration as well as my thanks. Whether my decision was right or wrong, it was one I had to make and can’t regret now.

Keep up the good work in your writing. We need more Veterans like you speaking out about what we know. We need the leadership of NCOs in Civilian life and I feel the Government would benefit from NCOs in leadership positions as well.

Don’t let the left ever get you down. Even if they once served, I feel many of them have forgotten what it is to stand for something worth standing for.