Making tomorrows Military today: Journalist sticking to her guns

Journalist sticking to her guns

He...He.... He...

I must say that this woman has Gov. Blago's "Testicular fortitude". The lady who wrote the article that charged me up yesterday, is defending her story.

Her defense is based off a few e-mails that ran the gamete from the recruiters were right to recruiters should be banned. The loudest critics were Gregory Gadow and Ted Fitch, a website designer for MJM and Associates.

With feelings about military recruiters in our high schools running hot, many, Gregory Gadow, Ted Fitch and others included, called for action against the recruiters (who did not return requests for interviews), for going beyond the call to fill their quotas.

Here is my favorite section of her article.

They accused the teen, his mother, and the other relatives and friends who witnessed pieces of Axel's experience of lying. They called the boy a wimp and worse. And, without knowing anything about her, they called his mother a control freak for tracking her boy to Seattle and, with her daughter's help, springing him from the testing center.

She did not actually say anything rebutting the statements made in her e-mail. From the outside, driving a far distance to get your kid from doing what he wanted seems a little controlling. The boy could be a wimp. He might be a wimp. He had his mom, at the very least, tell the recruiters that he was not interested. That to me is not masculine. Which in male form, could be defined as a WIMP.

He had to run away from his own mother to join the Marines and so did his son, wrote Michael G. Jackson, Col., USMC (retired). Who signed off with: "If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's in English, thank a U.S. Marine."

You can see from her writing the last line of that paragraph that she does not understand how the Military works, does not appreciate it and wants nothing to do with the military.

I am sick:

And, after 12 years as a U.S. Army recruiter, Lonnie Dotson offered these tips (assuming that the teen truly does not want to join):

"Call the recruiting station commander, the recruiters' commanding officer and/or the command sergeant major and complain.

Hmmm... All ours will do is send down an e-mail saying "good job, but cool your jets a little"

Call or write your elected official -- the military will drop everything to respond.

I will Smack you in an instant for that one. Let me tell you one thing... if you pull that with one recruiter, we have ways... oh do we have ways... lead cards are easy to create. I will go to Army.com, Navy.com, Airforce.com, 1-800-go-guard.com, marines.com, gocoastguard.com, and put your name, address and phone number into each. That is 6 hungry recruiters that will call you and call you. Oh, and don't forget changing the zip code... then you have different cities recruiters calling you.

Fail the written test on purpose.

Can't do anything about that one.

Fail the physical, tell the recruiters you take mind-altering drugs, or that you're a convicted felon waiting for your parole to finish.

We verify... Especially if you are a lead.

And lastly, call a reporter."

I hope you call one of my local reporters. They are usually taken out for lunch at least once a month by at least one of the services. We like to have as many people on our side as we can... they are called Centers of Influence. This recruiter needs his ass kicked. It seems as if he is a favorite of the Seattle News Media. Dotson however served VERY honorably in Vietnam, so his ass only needs to be kicked... a little.

We then find out that Axel is staying at home at Community College. WIMP. WUSSASS.

I love that word.

Militantpundit posted @ 10:30 PM

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Great site, MP. And great story. This one slipped past me. Mainstream Media at its best, don't you think? I'll get you on the blogroll over at Libery.

Posted by Unknown @ 11:50 PM, June 11, 2005

she can stick to her guns... but i'll bet she can't even find the trigger (hehehehe)

thought the kid sounded like he was trying to escape a henpecking mama... signed stuff he hadn't read? completed the ASVAB? since he was 18, sounded like a whole bunch of good luck that they tore up his contract...

see my June 4 post to see what a mom of REAL men has to say about recruiting in the high schools... at http://www.somesoldiersmom.blogspot.com

Posted by Some Soldier's Mom @ 1:05 AM, June 12, 2005