evince
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2008-05-07-nondeploy_N.htm
This is the Republican Idea of how to support our troops?
This is the Republican Idea of how to support our troops?
43,000 sent to battle who were medically unfit for duty
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The Almighty
Who wants to bet this was an email alert sent out by one of the moveon.moron type sites?
I suppose we are to ignore certain parts of the article.
"The Pentagon records do not list what — or how serious — the health issues are, nor whether they were corrected before deployment, said Michael Kilpatrick, a deputy director for the Pentagon's Force Health Protection and Readiness Programs.
A Pentagon staffer examined 10,000 individual health records last year to determine causes for the non-deployable ratings, Kilpatrick said. Some reasons included a need for eyeglasses, dental work or allergy medicine and a small number of mental health cases, he said."
While the article does state some were sent that should not have been, how many of these 43,000 were the "needed eyeglasses" category and how many were in the "mental health" category??
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The Almighty
Again, as the article stated, there were most certainly some sent who should not have been sent. But as the article also states, there was a wide range of reasons to be on the list of 43,000. The article also states that the 43,000 does not reflect any who had problems resolved before being deployed.
Hence my question..... I wonder how many were for the "needs eyeglasses" type vs. the "mental health" type?
