Israel went public with news of an Iranian effort to recruit Israelis of
Iranian origin, to spy on Israel for Iran. Israel has detected at least
ten Iranian attempts to recruit Israelis as spies. This is possible
because, although Iran wants Israel destroyed, Iran still allows
Israelis of Iranian origin to return and visit kin in Iran. There are
still 25,000 Jews in Iran, and 135,000 Israelis of Iranian origin. In
the last two years, about a hundred Israelis have returned to Iran to
visit family. The classic method of recruitment, used by the Iranians,
is to threaten kin in Iran with harm (imprisonment, torture, death) if
the Israeli does not supply information. Apparently, several of the
Israelis, reported the Iranian recruiting attempt to the Israeli
government.


It's not illegal for Israelis to travel to Iran, although it's common
knowledge that Iran is not a hospitable place for Jews, Israelis or
Westerners in general. Israelis usually go to the nearest Iranian
embassy (usually Turkey) to take care of the paperwork. While applying
for an Iranian passport, they are questioned on what they do for a
living, and what they did while in the Israeli armed forces. Some
Israelis have reported this to their government, and the Iranian
espionage situation has been watched carefully for some time.

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Secrets leak’ civil servant opposed Iraq war

A civil servant accused of leaking a highly classified document about
the Government’s policy on Iraq admitted to Scotland Yard that he
opposed the war, the Old Bailey was told yesterday. David Keogh, 50, who
was employed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office but seconded to a
Cabinet Office communications centre beneath the Ministry of Defence in
Whitehall, has pleaded not guilty to breaching the Official Secrets Act
1989.

However, Leo O’Connor, a political researcher who is in the dock with
him charged under the same Act, told the police that Mr Keogh handed him
the secret document which was entitled “Iraq: Prime Minister’s meeting
with President Bush”. Mr O’Connor, 44, who was working for a Labour MP,
has also pleaded not guilty to breaching the Act.

The contents of the document are regarded as so sensitive that whenever
the details are referred to in court the trial is conducted in camera.
To remind the jury that what they are hearing is secret and not open to
the public, Mr Justice Aikens has ordered all the barristers to remove
their wigs when the in-camera sessions begin.

The meeting between Tony Blair and President Bush in the White House
took place on April 16, 2004.

On May 28, 2004, the Old Bailey heard, Anthony Clarke, the Labour MP for
Northampton South who employed Mr O’Connor, telephoned 10 Downing Street
to let them know that he had found a copy of a secret document about
Iraq among a pile of his parliamentary papers at his constituency
office.

He was put through to Baroness Morgan of Huyton, the Prime Minister’s
director of government relations, and later the police were called. When
he was first interviewed by two officers from Scotland Yard Mr Keogh,
who had worked as a communications and cipher officer for 25 years,
denied any knowledge of the leaked document.

He said that he saw a large number of highly classified faxes as part of
his job, but this particular one, sent from Downing Street via
Washington for distribution elsewhere, including the British ambassador
in Baghdad, “didn’t ring any bells”.

He told the police: “I’m under the Official Secrets Act. What I see I
can’t tell anybody, and when I go out of the office, I don’t discuss my
work and I try to forget totally what I’ve been dealing with.”

He said that normal Whitehall policy was to shred all copies of secret
documents after seven days.

Although Mr Keogh denied to police that he had copied the Iraq document,
he said that he was against the Iraq war. “I didn’t think it was right,”
he said. He also said that he often wondered why he was still seconded
to the Cabinet Office after 6½ years and was “annoyed” that “some people
were not pulling their weight”.

Despite his strong denial to police that he had copied the document that
was marked “secret, personal”, Mr Keogh was questioned about “a whole
series of coincidences”.

The officers from Scotland Yard’s specialist operations department said
that the Iraq document sent from Washington by the Prime Minister’s
private secretary had gone through the communications centre where he
was working on the night it arrived in Whitehall.

The police also asked Mr Keogh about a “five-second” mobile phone call
he made to Mr O’Connor at the MP’s constituency office on May 27, 2004,
in which he said: “You’ve got it, right?”

Mr Keogh told police he could not remember making a five-second call.

The trial continues today.

WASHINGTON — President Bush is on a collision course with Democrats in
Congress, who late Monday agreed to send him a timeline for withdrawal
along with a $124.2 billion Iraq war emergency spending bill.

Before a standing room-only audience in the bowels of Capitol Hill,
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., announced
the end of a conference meeting between House and Senate lawmakers after
less than an hour. No formal vote was held on the legislation, an
indication the fate of the bill was already sealed before the members
arrived.

The emphasis of the legislation is on a timetable, specifically the
requirement that troops begin withdrawing by Oct. 1, 2007, with a goal,
though not a mandate, to withdraw all combat forces within the
subsequent six months. Troops could come out as early as this summer if
the Iraqi government does not enact political and security reforms.

"This agreement provides us a new direction that will show the Iraqis
that our committment is not endless. it sets us on a path with the best
chance of achieving success in Iraq," said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.,
who led the meeting in place of Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., who was under
the weather and unable to attend.
The bill also places restrictions on how the president can deploy troops
that lack sufficient training or have not spent at least one year at
home before rotating back into combat. The legislation includes an
additional 60-day reporting requirement on Gen. David Petraeus, the
commander of Multinational Forces in Iraq, to state how well Iraqis are
doing on meeting Bush administration benchmarks.

As for the additional spending labeled pork by the White House, some of
it has been removed from the bill. No money will go to farmers of
peanuts, sugar beets or spinach.

Only Democrats formally signed the compromise supplemental legislation.
Republicans called the troop withdrawal timetable an effort to undercut
the commander in chief.

"Any president would veto this bill and would have to veto this bill to
maintain the stability of the constitutional processes as far our
national government is concerned," said Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska.

The end product of negotiations now heads to the House floor for a vote
Wednesday and then to the Senate Thursday before heading to President
Bush's desk for a promised veto. Bush, meeting with his national
security team on Monday, including Petraeus, called the legislation a
mistake because it sets up a date for defeat in Iraq.

"An artificial timetable of withdrawal would say to an enemy, just wait
them out; it would say to the Iraqis, don't do hard things necessary to
achieve our objectives; and it would be discouraging for our troops,"
Bush said.

The president added that despite a wave of violence last week, efforts
to reduce sectarian violence have begun to work.

The president said much the same last week in Grand Rapids, Mich. Today,
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid mocked him.

The White House transcript says the president made those remarks in the
State of Michigan. I believe he made them in the state of denial," Reid
said in a speech to an audience at the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

Reid called Bush the "odd man out" on Iraq and vowed to use Congress to
try to change what he said was Bush's "shoot first" diplomacy.

In a scathing speech seemingly aimed at shaming the president into
calling for a withdrawal, Reid said the Bush administration is in denial
about the war, incompetent in its conduct and unwilling to listen to
alternatives.

"What a shame that after five-and-a-half years, so many lost lives and
so much treasure depleted, President Bush hasn't budged from the
shoot-first, talk-never style that one national magazine described as
'cowboy diplomacy' — that got us into this mess in the first place,"
Reid told

"The president has dug in his heels in this fight, but it doesn't have
to be that way. ... Democrats are reaching out to Republicans in
Congress in hopes of bipartisan cooperation. Only the president is the
odd man out, and he is making the task even harder by demanding absolute
fidelity from his party," Reid continued.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino shot back, saying Reid's "new"
approach seems a little stale.

"Senator Reid seems to be in a state of confusion," Perino said. "He
said the president 'ignored' the Iraq Study Group by sending more troops
to secure Baghdad when the Iraq Study Group report said it would support
this step. Senator Reid also called for a regional conference when one
is already set to begin in days, called for emphasizing political
reconciliation in Iraq when the Senate's own bill cuts $243 million
vital for political reconciliation, and said his meetings with the
president are unproductive despite characterizing his discussion with
the president last Wednesday as a 'good exchange' minutes after the
meeting concluded."

While some Republicans have withered under the continued support, they
are not breaking ranks to help override a presidential veto.

Bush has said that he is willing to work with Congress, but not let
lawmakers micro-manage the war. Reid said Bush is not interested in
listening to advice from the opposition party.

"Instead of sending us back to square one with a veto, some tough talk
and nothing more, let him come to the table in the spirit of
bipartisanship that Americans demand and deserve," Reid said.

It is a near certainty when the vetoed bill returns from the White
House, Democrats will have to remove the timeline. One Democratic Senate
Appropriations Committee member told FOX News that is exactly what will
happen.

"When it comes back, the dates come out," said Sen Ben Nelson, D-Neb.,
who has always indicated his discomfort with "dates certain."

Apr 23, 2007

BAGHDAD—The U.S. ambassador to Iraq urged leaders of rival religious and
ethnic groups on Monday to shelve what he called "I win, you lose"
politics and speed up progress on laws crucial to fostering national
reconciliation.

Ryan Crocker, in his first news conference since arriving in Baghdad in
March, said the months ahead for Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's
nearly one-year-old fractious government of Kurdish, Sunni Arab and
Shi'ite factions would be critical.

"The very definition of reconciliation means you've got to move away
from an 'I win you lose' mentality to some form of broader
accommodation," he said.

U.S. officials are frustrated by the reluctance of parties to compromise
and by slow progress on a draft law on sharing oil revenues and rolling
back a ban on former members of Saddam Hussein's party holding office
that affects mainly Sunni Arabs.

Sunni Arabs, who were dominant before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003,
feel marginalised in the new political landscape in which Shi'ites and
minority Kurds, who were repressed under Saddam, have sought to cement
their grip on power.

Crocker warned that Sunni Islamist al Qaeda was trying to trigger a
fresh wave of violence between minority Sunnis and majority Shi'ites in
a campaign of suicide and car bombings that has killed hundreds of
people over the past several weeks.

Car and suicide bombers killed up to 46 people in a series of attacks
across Iraq on Monday, including one in a restaurant near the heavily
fortified Green Zone compound in Baghdad, where Crocker was giving his
news conference.


Wall Controversy
In a new military tactic to stop the bombers, U.S. troops have begun
walling off some flashpoint neighbourhoods in Baghdad with concrete
barriers, but the move has drawn sharp criticism from some Sunni and
Shi'ite political parties.

Maliki said on Sunday he had ordered the U.S. military to stop work on a
12-foot (3.6-metre) high barrier around the Sunni neighbourhood of
Adhamiya.

Crocker defended the wall, saying it made "good security sense" to build
barriers where there were clear fault-lines and "avenues of attack"
between Sunni and Shi'ite areas.

Neither he nor U.S. military spokesman Rear Admiral Mark Fox would say
whether construction of the Adhamiya wall would be stopped. Fox said the
erection of barriers around Baghdad's markets and neighbourhoods was
approved by Iraq's government.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the walls
were a temporary security measure aimed at protecting civilian
populations and were not aimed at dividing people in Iraq.

"This is not meant as a political statement. It is meant as a security
measure and we are working closely with the Iraqi security forces on
it," he said.

He rejected comparisons to the wall being built by the Israelis. "They
are completely different situations and no comparisons should be drawn,"
McCormack told reporters.

Tens of thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops have been deployed in Baghdad
to try to curb sectarian violence.

While they have reduced the number of sectarian murders, there has been
a surge in bombings inside and outside Baghdad. Crocker said he and the
top U.S. military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, held daily
discussions and agreed that only political action would bring "lasting
calm" to Iraq.

"I think the Baghdad security plan ... can buy time, but what it does is
buy time for what it ultimately has to be—a set of political
understandings among Iraqis. So I think these months ahead are going to
be critical," Crocker said.

Three car bombs exploded in the Iraqi insurgent stronghold of Ramadi,
killing 20 people, police said. A source at a local hospital said it
received 29 bodies after the blast.

In Baquba, capital of the volatile Diyala province north of Baghdad, a
suicide car bomber killed 10 policemen, including the police chief, and
wounded 23 others, police said.

A suicide car bomb killed 10 people and wounded 20 in an attack on the
office of a Kurdish political party near the northern city of Mosul.

Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron [VAW-112]
"Golden Hawks"
Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron ONE ONE TWO (VAW-112) was
commissioned on 20 April 1967. Assigned to Carrier Air Wing NINE,
VAW-112 made three deployments, operating the E-2A in the Western
Pacific in support of the Vietnam Conflict aboard the USS Enterprise
(CVN-65). In May, 1970, the squadron was temporarily deactivated and
placed in a "standdown" status until reactivated on 3 July 1973.
VAW-112, flying E-2Bs, was assigned to Carrier Air Wing TWO and made
three Western Pacific/Indian Ocean deployments aboard USS RANGER
(CV-61), before reassignment to Carrier Air Wing EIGHT aboard USS NIMITZ
(CVN-68) for a Mediterranean and Indian Ocean Deployment.

In May 1979, the squadron transitioned to the E-2C and again became a
part of Carrier Air Wing NINE in February, 1981. As part of Carrier Air
Wing NINE, VAW-112 made three Western Pacific/Indian Ocean deployments
aboard USS CONSTELLATION (CV-64), USS RANGER (CV-61) and USS KITTY HAWK
(CV-63). During this period, VAW-112 was awarded two Battle Efficiency
Awards, in January 1979 and January 1985.

During June and early July of 1989, VAW-112 was deployed aboard USS
NIMITZ for NORPAC '89. In August, 1989, VAW-112 became the first West
Coast squadron to transition to the latest E-2C Plus aircraft. During
February and March of 1990, a detachment from VAW-112 rode USS
CONSTELLATION "around the horn" of South America to Norfolk, Virginia.
In September, 1990 the squadron deployed to Howard Air Force Base,
Panama for the Joint Task Force (JTF-4) Project. VAW-112 finished the
year and entered 1991 with CVW NINE's work-up schedule aboard USS
NIMITZ. In March 1991, the squadron departed for a Western
Pacific/Indian Ocean/Northern Arabian Gulf Cruise in support of
Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM aboard USS NIMITZ (CVN-68).

Following a rigorous work-up cycle, the squadron departed San Diego for
the Arabian Gulf in December 1995 aboard USS NIMITZ (CVN-68). After
remaining on station for three months, the squadron departed the Gulf
early to support the U.S. foreign policy off Taiwan's coast and returned
home in May. The squadron deployed for Puerto Rico in mid-July for
Counter-Narcotics Operations of Naval Station Roosevelt Roads. The
remaining part of 1996 saw VAW-112 participating in All Services Combat
Identification & Evaluation Team (ASCIET), in Gulfport, MS, Marine
Attack Weapons Training School (MAWTS) at NAS Miramar, and SFARP in
Fallon, Nevada. Before Christmas, the Golden Hawks headed north to
Whidbey Island, WA for Carrier Deck Certification aboard USS ABRAHAM
LINCOLN.

During the 1997 work-up cycle for an "around the world" deployment, the
squadron participated in the Pacific Fleet Surge Exercise in late July.
During the SURGEX, the squadron provided unparalleled battle space
management to the battle group for over 96 continuous hours. It was at
this time that VAW-112 also surpassed the safety milestone of 24 years
and over 52,000 mishap-free flight hours.

Departing San Diego in September 1997, the Golden Hawks set sail once
again onboard USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) and transited the Pacific Ocean. Due
to increasing tensions between the United Nations and Iraq, the Golden
Hawks bypassed a scheduled port visit to Singapore and sailed undeterred
to the Arabian Gulf to support Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. Upon returning
in March 1998, the Golden Hawks were awarded the coveted Battle "E" for
1997, the CNO's Aviation Safety "S" Award and the AEW Excellence Award,
designating the Golden Hawks as the premier VAW squadron for the entire
E-2C community.

In July, 1998, the Golden Hawks completed a short detachment to Hawaii
on USS KITTY HAWK (CV-63) assisting in swapping out USS INDEPENDENCE
(CV-62) and the transfer of the newest Group II NAV-upgrade aircraft to
VAW-115, whose homeport is Atsugi, Japan.

During workups, in preparation for the Millennium cruise, VAW-112
detached to NAS Fallon, NV for SFARP and on USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74)
for FleetEx and JTFEx. In January, 2000, the Goldenhawks deployed on the
Stennis for a 6 month deployment to the Arabian Gulf in support of
Operation Southern Watch. Port visits included South Korea, Hong Kong,
Malaysia, Bahrain, Jebel Ali, Australia, Tasmania and Hawaii.

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but, one problems they can't tell the peole that Osama bin laden dead
caude then this whole war would be over and bush would lose power simply
cause now our brothers who died in 9/11 had been avenged by the death of
osama bin laden.. Beside if saaddam is dead who else is there in iraq or
the middle east can we blame in order for the world on terrorism to
continue. Everyone knows that all you do is take out the
commander-in-charge and the war is yours cause now the underlings become
confused with no direction... So, they would have to cover-up the fact
that osama bin laden might be dead.

Is Osama bin Laden dead?



Has he really died of typhoid? robert fox weighs the claim and its
implications

Osama bin Laden, charismatic founder of al-Qaeda, died of typhoid
earlier this month in Pakistan, according to a highly classified
intelligence brief given to the King of Saudi Arabia and President
Chirac this week, and leaked to the French newspaper L'Est Republicain.

The chief of the terror group was known to have been suffering from
acute typhoid and seeking treatment in Pakistan in mid-August. This was
picked up and tracked by Saudi intelligence services. The same sources,
said by the French to be very reliable, believe he later died.

The powerful Pakistani intelligence agency the ISI - at times virtually
a parallel government, instrumental among other things in founding the
Taliban - has not confirmed the report. "We have no information on
Osama's death," a senior Pakistan Interior Ministry official said on
Saturday morning.

Bin Laden last appeared on video in 2004. A few poor-quality audio tapes
purporting to be of his voice surfaced earlier this year - but it was
impossible to say when the original recordings were made.

The reaction of the bin Laden command cell of al-Qaeda to the fifth
anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks was surprisingly muted and
unfocused. It said al-Qaeda would attack "American targets" again, and
that all Americans should "convert to Islam".

It is now clear that most of the talking, and broadcasting, by the old
command cell has been done by Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri, spokesman and
ideologue for bin Laden and always seen as his Number 2. The highly
articulate doctor came to the surface in the security operations
following the assassination of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat in October
1981. He can only exist in the shadow of the magnetism of bin Laden and
is not seen as a leader or strategist in his own right.

Much the same goes for the al-Qaeda movement as a whole. Like other,
admittedly smaller, terrorist groups such as Italy's Red Brigades, it
has found it hard to reprise its big spectacular. It has never done
anything like 9/11 since. Attacks like the Bali and Mombasa bombs, the
train and transport bombings in Madrid in 2004 and London in July last
year may have been carried out in the name of Islamic revolution -
adopting the al-Qaeda logo as it were - but they were not under bin
Laden's direct command.

The attacks appear to be loosely linked homegrown efforts whose
ideological and operational roots are in Pakistan and Bangladesh as much
as in the bin Laden training camps in Waziristan and Kashmir.

The death of bin Laden, if it is confirmed, will be cloaked in the
propaganda of martyrdom, mourning and revenge. It could also trigger a
major rethink of such notions as "Global War on Terror", which is long
overdue. It will be a blow to the sloganising of the neo-conservatives -
and their notion of the "clash of civilisations" - and to the high-flown
rhetoric of President Bush and Prime Minister Blair.

It is likely to mean not so much "back to basics" in tackling terrorism,
but back to the practicalities of how to deal with terrorists in the
real world.

Death Before Dishonor
March 22, 2007: In late 2006, there were 1,300 terrorist attacks a week
recorded in Iraq. Most of these were minor stuff, a few gunshots, or a
bomb going off harmlessly (most roadside bomb attacks fail). By January,
this was down to 1,000 a week, and that continues to drop. The "surge"
is calming things down. It's become more dangerous for civilians to
appear on the streets with guns. Iraqi civilians continue to be the
primary victims of the violence, accounting for over 90 percent of the
deaths. However, this includes dead terrorists, and more of them are
getting killed as their safe houses and bomb factories are found and
raided. American intelligence estimates that about half the terrorist
operations have been shut down inside Baghdad. Terrorists who have
survived the raids, have fled to the suburbs, or Western Iraq. The
suburbs have become a major battleground, as many of these towns have
long been all-Sunni.


In Western Iraq, the tribes continue to turn on al Qaeda and other Sunni
terrorist organizations. Four years ago, the tribes bought into the idea
that Sunni Arabs could use terror to regain control of Iraq. The
terrorists brought in money, and kept the Americans and government
security forces out. It all seemed like it would work. But then the
Americans started coming in. Fallujah fell to an assault by American
marines. The majority of Iraqis elected a Shia dominated government.
Some of the tribal leaders began to have second thoughts. The more hard
core Sunni terrorists responded to this with death threats, and death,
for tribal leaders who were working with the government. This produced a
growing backlash from the Sunni Arab tribes that dominate western Iraq.
For the last year, that war has spread to Baghdads suburbs, where many
of Saddams most loyal (and generously rewarded) supporters lived. The
suburban Sunnis have been the most determined terrorists, because they
went from being the most favored, to least favored, Iraqis overnight,
once Saddam fell. Many of these suburban towns are solidly behind the
terrorists. That is, a majority, or large minority of the population
actively supports the terror campaign.



But now more police and security forces are moving into these towns, and
battles are breaking out every day. The government has the troops for
this, with security force strength now at 320,000. It was 232,000 a year
ago, up from 120,000 in 2004. A major change has been the development of
experienced police and army leaders. That takes time, and the time has
passed. While it's still easier to send in American troops to quickly
take care of armed resistance, the Iraqi troops now know how to search
and clear a neighborhood of weapons and terrorist tools. The basic
strategy of the U.S. troop "surge" is to put these Iraqi security forces
in pro-terrorist neighborhoods, and back them up over a long period.
Since Iraq now has ten million phone owners (most of them cell phones),
once people fell free from constant terrorist surveillance, and
retaliation, they begin phoning in tips about who the bad guys are and
where they hang out. The terrorist groups contain a lot of professionals
from Saddams secret police and Republican Guard, people who know how to
organize an attack on less experienced security forces (containing
mostly Shia and Kurds). But with enough American troops there as backup,
these attacks never gain any momentum, and result in a lot of dead Sunni
Arabs.



The Sunnis Arabs still cannot deal with American troops. Even though the
majority of terrorist attacks continue to be against U.S., the majority
of victims in these attacks are Iraqi civilians. Moreover, terrorists
lose over ten of their own for each American solider they kill. All
those civilian casualties have turned the civilian population against
the terrorists. Despite energetic efforts to put the blame on American
troops, too many Iraqis have witnessed these attacks, and seen how the
terrorists slaughter civilians during futile attempts to inflict
casualties on the Americans. Even Sunni Iraqi civilians are often
victims of the terrorist attacks, and have had enough.



Unfortunately, the enemy is willing to die fighting. Many of the Sunni
terrorist leaders are Saddams henchmen, with lots of blood on their
hands. They have seen many of their associates put on trial, and hanged.
Many more have been killed by Shia death squads. These killers take
particular care to go after Sunni Arabs who participated in the 1980s
war with Iran. To this end, Iran has been training some of the death
squad members to be more efficient killers. Iran still holds a grudge
for the 1980 Iraqi invasion of Iran, and eight years of war that
followed. In Iran, thousands of maimed (by shells, bombs and poison gas)
veterans of that war are still around, as a reminder. In Iraq, most of
those Sunni Arabs who supported Saddam in the 1980s have fled the
country, been jailed, or been killed. Those that remain don't expect to
survive unless they can regain control of the country. That's impossible
now, but the coalition of religious fanatics and Sunni Arab supremacists
that lead the terror campaign seem determined to fight to the death. The
rest of Iraq wants accommodate them.

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pertaining to the restoration of firearm rights is available at
http://www.vsp.state.va.us/cjis_denied.htm.

PHI BETA from the Campus of VA Tech:
Some Thoughts on the Massacre at Virginia Tech [Carol Iannone]

I think first of all we need to pray. Then we need NOT to say that
there was nothing that anyone could have done to prevent this horror.
Without judging or condemning anyone, we need to learn from this for the
future.

I know we don't have all the information, or even much information at
this point, but there are aspects of what we have heard so far that gnaw
at me. I don't know why the campus wasn't on greater alert in general,
given the bomb threats of the previous weeks. I don't know why it was
so easy for the killer to enter the dormitory. Dormitories are virtual
homes for their students, a place where they are completely relaxed and
unguarded.

I don't know why there wasn't a more concerted effort to make sure after
the first shooting that the killer be apprehended. Authorities thought
the dorm incident was a murder/suicide. Wasn't it possible pretty early
to see that the young man who was dead in the dorm had not killed
himself? If so, that meant an armed killer was on the loose.
Therefore, wasn't there a way to issue a general warning so that
students could have been more on the alert after the first shooting?
Couldn't professors at least have been contacted so that unsuspecting
students were not in classrooms lined up like sitting ducks? Did no one
see the killer chaining the doors of one of the buildings?

I am sorry that no one had a gun to take the killer out before he could
destroy more lives. He was evidently able to reload. Was there a
moment when he could have been tackled? I don't say this to condemn or
judge anyone, believe me, but so that we think in terms of what can be
done in the future. Just as there is widespread CPR training and
instruction in the Heimlich maneuver, perhaps we should have classes and
training to prepare for such situations. Enough of them have happened
in recent years to warrant this.

Of course it's unimaginably terrifying to be confronted with an armed
lunatic but perhaps he could have been jumped and overcome while he was
reloading if some students had been able to recognize and shake off the
fear, panic, and paralysis that can take over at such times. We all
need to learn to act, and not necessarily to rely on security and
responders. We are supposed to be at war. This was not an act of
terrorism but it may as well have been, for the damage it caused. We
must be wartime ready.

There was some alert action. Some students realized in the first
classroom that the killer might come back and so barricaded the door to
prevent his re-entry. It worked. He did come back but they held the
door, which was evidently thick enough to stop the renewed burst of
bullets, and so some students from that classroom survived. And there
were moving instances of heroism. A Holocaust survivor whose life had
been spared decades before gave it for others yesterday. He barricaded
the door of his classroom against the killer, enabling the students to
escape through the windows.

And I'm sorry, some will really think me foolish, but I don't think
dorms should be co-ed, so that crazed, jealous boyfriends can enter
their girlfriends' dorms and kill them and the innocent young men who
come to their aid. If it had been a single-sex dorm, the killer might
not have been able to enter so readily. There aren't enough
difficulties getting young people through college these days so that we
have to deal with "domestic disputes" in their dormitories as well?

And, sorry again, but thoughts also arise on the killer's being an
English major and on the spiritual emptiness of much education nowadays.

Did the killer show any signs of snapping? If so, were these signs
properly acknowledged? Once a student erupted in rage at a colleague of
mine and the administration excused it as a sign of "stress."


04/17 12:43 PM

Here’s what I’ve read in various places. Allegedly a guy found his g/f
in bed with another man and then shot and killed them both. Two hours
later he crossed the campus with a weapon and a vest full of magazines
for reloading. He’d walk into a classroom and start shooting, going from
class to class. No verification on the doors being chained shut. He is
dead and probably killed himself.

I’m betting he used a semi auto style rifle-an AK, SKS, or AR-15. Lousy
bastard. He just couldn’t have killed himself, he had to take innocent
people with him.

Comment by Hard Right — 4/16/2007 @ 11:53 am

My guess: DU, Daily Kos, and HuffPo are all crawling with threads
accusing Karl Rove of being behind the shootings, to distract from the
upcoming testimony of Alberto Gonzales

Karl Rove mentioned in such conspiracy context in the comments to the
main post on the subject, on DailyKos == zero.
The number of comments wondering if the shooter was a Muslim and if the
fact that his name is not yet released positively proves that he _was_ a
Muslim, on HotAir and LGF — too many to count.

DU’s got it. And this is now the worst mass shooting in US history.

Pablo, do you suggest that this link means that DUers think that Rove is
behind this, or merely that it will, in fact, take attention from
Gonzales?

Comment by Nikolay — 4/16/2007 @ 12:03 pm

My brother is a student there and the fact is no one knows any more than
what’s on TV. All they know is that the guy was “Asian” and was using
handguns. I grew up there and it’s hard to see pictures of places I’ve
visited dozens of times.

Comment by Rob Turner — 4/16/2007 @ 12:09 pm

Firedoglake From comments:


onelast thought before I go out the door. This may seem callous, but I
suggest pups watch and record FOX on this all day. I can promise they
will give anyone watching more material to back our contention that they
are NOT news and need to be saddled by the FCC. They will time and again
make egregious, thoughtless and plain old made up statements all day
about how this is all the fault of the left. IrishJim says: April 16th,
2007 at 12:00 pm Becauseof a high level of mistrust, I can’t help
wondering if this will somehow play into ABU’s testimony tomorrow.
Wasn’t one of the “Performance” indicators cited, Gun convictions? Okay,
for those of you who doubt the “at least” coding… look at this:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3045574 Headline: At least 29 people
are dead in what may be the biggest mass shooting in modern American
history — and the death toll may rise. I could go on and on…
unfortunatately. This is staged. We need to ask questions. Freedom says:
April 16th, 2007 at 11:03 am This story reaks of a staged event… the
headlines are totally coded as a staged event… … Any time the phrase “at
least” is preceeded before an injured or death count, it’s code (like
graffitti is gang code) as a false flag/black op operation… Here’s the
proof: http://frogsinhotwater.blogspot.com/ Yes, I’ll bet people died,
but these shootings are always timed as distractions… and readers of
Firedoglake know we’re about to have Gonzales in front of Congress
shortly.

UPDATE* Reported 33 Killed in Virginia Tech Shooting…

Classes have been canceled today as a scary situation develops in
Blacksburg:Shootings in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech left at
least one person dead and seven or eight more wounded Monday before
police arrested the suspected gunman, officials…

Trackback by The Sandbox — 4/16/2007 @ 2:23 pm

Please stop reporting that [name deleted] had anything to do with this.
James is a student at Virginia Tech, the suspect was not. James is
Korean American. Reports are that the shooter was a student from
mainland China, although even that is just a rumour

I don’t think it’s making political hay out of this to simply seek out,
note, and deride, the attempts of *others* to make political hay out of
this.

Sure, attempts of _others_. Not, you know, of yours. One can never stop
deride “others”, the vaguer they are defined the better.
Anyway, to claim that this was a Rove conspiracy one must be mentally
ill. To seek out, note and deride mentally ill people is never a right
thing to do, especially in this context and with such generalizations
(”are all crawling with threads”). My point against you is not
political, but personal. And you’re right in applying that logic to me.
I happen to live now in a country far from yours and where much worse
things happened in schools, so this event doesn’t, in fact, strike home.
I’m sure that all the world was shocked by Beslan, but that was a really
otherworldly horrendous event (more shocking to us, perhaps, because of
the recklessness of our special forces than of the hideousness of
terrorists themselves), while the shooting sprees are seen, from the
safe distance, as just a normal American cultural practice. You don’t
get _shocked_ by the fact that somebody blew up 60 people in Baghdad, do
you?

1) Are people capable of getting guns illegally?

The lonely shooters, being weirdos that they are, probably lack social
skills needed to purchase illegal guns. And the question is not really
about canceling Second Amendment, but about making access to guns harder
for a sick person — would you argue with the fact that this is relevant?

Put another way, would this have been tougher to pull off at, say, a
police station or a firing range?

Do you think that there’s a person that lived on a college campus and
never did anything really insane during all the stay? Do you believe
that people having a gun on the belt would not change the general safety
on campus?

Sure, there’s to lot to discuss here, but to frame it, without any
reservations, the way Malkin and Reynolds do, “this tragedy happened
because students didn’t have guns”, is totally unfair.

Comment by Nikolay — 4/16/2007 @ 4:57 pm
Va. Tech. and the ‘active shooter’…

Let’s start here: the Chinese national, believed to be the gunman that
killed 32 people at the Virginia Tech. campus today before killing
himself, may have been here on a student visa. It seems he argued with
his girlfriend over…

Reports now indicate the shooter was a Chinese national, age 25, on a
F-1 Student Visa.

Patterico might enlighten us on the state of California gun laws, but my
naive understanding of CALIFORNIA gun laws, you must be either a US
citizen or Legal Resident to purchase firearms LEGALLY in the State of
California.

Assumption: that VA has similar requirements.

Assumption 2: Street corners where drugs can be purchased have no such
restrictions.

Wretchard at Belmont Club has a good point: pushing responsibility for
safety UPWARDS to State control and abdicating any responsibility for
your own means things like this.

Note that VT had a shooting nearby last year with several dead. Students
are upset that the “school learned nothing.” Also note that bomb threats
had been made several times over the last two weeks: it’s plausible that
the shooter used them to discern security responses.

You will NEVER keep: drugs, guns, booze out of ANY nation, except North
Korea. Given that we ought to treat people like adults. People 18-19-20
years old can fight and die and make life and death decisions in an
instant in Iraq, Aircraft Carriers, Helicopters, or places like
Afghanistan, Horn of Africa, etc.

We already have Columbin/VT against Pearl MS and Appalachian School of
Law. Enough evidence to see what works (people able to defend
themselves) and what doesn’t (only the cops can defend you).


These Comment were started after they saw The News report

Virginia Tech Campus Reels From Shooting That Leaves at Least 33 Dead
Monday , April 16, 2007

By Liza Porteus


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Virginia Tech police and administrators struggled to explain late Monday
why the campus was not locked down after a deadly shooting earlier in
the day, and why students were in classrooms two hours later when a lone
gunman entered a campus building and slaughtered 30 people, before
turning a gun on himself.

The man responsible for murdering 32 people — the worst mass-murder
shooting in American history — who carried no ID, remained unidentified
late Monday, police said.

By the end of the spree, 33 people, including the gunman, were dead and
authorities warned the toll could rise because several more were
critically injured.

Students complained that there were no public-address announcements or
other warnings on campus after the first burst of gunfire that left two
dead. They said the first word they received from the university was an
e-mail more than two hours into the rampage — around the time it is
believed that the gunman struck again.

University President Charles Steger said authorities believed that the
shooting at the dorm was a domestic dispute and mistakenly thought the
gunman had fled the campus.

"We had no reason to suspect any other incident was going to occur,"
Steger said.

He defended the university's handling of the tragedy, saying: "We can
only make decisions based on the information you had at the time. You
don't have hours to reflect on it."

Steger said school officials are notifying victims' next of kin, and
state police and the FBI are still investigating the various crime
scenes. Campus police confirmed that the bodies of some of the victims
had not yet been removed, and the process of identifying them was
ongoing.

The university, meanwhile, is setting up counseling centers for students
and faculty.

Steger explained that with 9,000 students living on campus and the more
than 11,000 students commuting, e-mail appeared to be the best way to
communicate the situation.

Steger said authorities at first believed that the shooting at the dorm
was a domestic dispute and that the gunman had fled the campus. "Shock
is an understatement," he said in reference to the shootings.

"The university was struck today with a tragedy of monumental
proportions," Steger said during a press conference shortly after noon.
"The university is shocked and horrified that this would befall our
campus ... I cannot begin to convey my own personal sense of loss over
this senselessness of such an incomprehensible and heinous act."

uReport: E-mail your photos, video to: studiob@ureport.foxnews.com

The Web site for the campus newspaper, The Collegiate Times, reported
that police recovered two 9mm handguns. That report was not yet
confirmed by FOX News, and campus police would not confirm the report
during the afternoon news conference.

The tragedy began unfolding at 7:15 a.m. Monday, when a 911 call came
into the campus police department concerning an incident at West Ambler
Johnston, a residence hall, reporting multiple shooting victims. While
that investigation was under way, a second shooting was reported in
Norris Hall, located at the opposite end of the 2,600-acre campus.

Steger said two people were killed in a dorm room in West Ambler
Johnston in that early shooting.

A little more than two hours later, an unidentified lone gunman entered
Norris Hall, a classroom building used by the Engineering Department,
and methodically executed 30 people before turning a gun on himself.

Initial reports had as many as 28 people wounded and treated at area
hospitals, but Steger revised that number to 15 during his late
afternoon news conference.

Virginia Tech Police Chief W.R. Flinchum said the gunman killed himself.
He said earlier reports about a shooting suspect in custody were not
true, and confirmed that one gunman was dead.

Junior David Jenkins told FOX News he heard screaming in his dorm inside
West Ambler Johnston residence hall Monday morning, but didn't know what
it was. He later heard from other residents that there was a gunman in
the building. Jenkins later heard of the mass shootings at Norris Hall.

"From what I heard, he chained up some of the doors so people couldn't
get in and he basically was just going to every classroom trying to get
in, and just started shooting inside classrooms," Jenkins said.

One of his friends was in a Norris classroom targeted by the gunman,
Jenkins said
FOX News he heard screaming in his dorm inside West Ambler Johnston
residence hall Monday morning, but didn't know what it was. He later
heard from other residents that there was a gunman in the building.
Jenkins later heard of the mass shootings at Norris Hall.

"From what I heard, he chained up some of the doors so people couldn't
get in and he basically was just going to every classroom trying to get
in, and just started shooting inside classrooms," Jenkins said.

One of his friends was in a Norris classroom targeted by the gunman,
Jenkins said.

"He was very fortunate," Jenkins said. "He said every single person in
the room was shot, killed and was in the ground. He laid on the ground
with everyone … he played dead and he was OK."

Flinchum confirmed that some of the Norris Hall doors were chained from
the inside.

Victims were being treated at Montgomery Regional Hospital and Carilion
New River Valley Medical Center in Christiansburg with gunshot wounds
and other injuries.

President Bush said the "nation is shocked and saddened" by the
shootings.

"Today our nation grieves with those who have lost loved ones at
Virginia Tech," Bush said. "We hold the victims in our hearts, we lift
them up in our prayers and we ask a loving god to comfort those who are
suffering today."

The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives both held a moment of
silence. Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, who was heading for a meeting in
Tokyo, Japan, for a two-week trade mission, is now returning to the
United States.

"It is difficult to comprehend senseless violence on this scale," Kaine
said. "I urge Virginians to keep these victims and their families in
their thoughts and prayers."

Last August, the campus was closed when an escaped jail inmate allegedly
killed a hospital guard and a sheriff's deputy involved in a massive
manhunt. The accused gunman, William Morva, faces capital murder
charges.

On April 13, the campus closed three of its academic halls after they
received a letter stating that explosive devices were in the building.
Classes were canceled for the remainder of the day. A bomb threat was
also made against Torgerson Hall on April 2. A $5,000 reward has been
offered for any information on those threats.

"For some reason, this just seemed a little different … it was more than
just a sick joke someone was playing," one student told FOX News,
referring to those bomb threats.

Flinchum said the idea that the bomb threats may be connected to
Monday's shooting is "certainly a possibility we're exploring."

Student Daniel Smith was walking across field heading toward Norris Hall
with his girlfriend when he heard yelling, and then a police officer
whisked the pair off to safety in a patrol car.

"We weren't quite sure but we did see police taking out people who were
heavily hurt," Smith said.

Smith, along with other students, said it was scary enough having a
gunman roaming campus on the first day of classes last year, but between
that, recent bomb threats and Monday's shooting, it's almost too much to
take in.

"I never thought it could actually happen, at a big school like this but
a small community. Growing up with Columbine and 9/11, it hits you in
the heart, but I've never felt this before," said Smith, an engineering
student. "I'm scared to see the list [of the dead victims] when that
list comes out, because I'm bound to know some students on there … it's
tearing at me. I've never had a big loss before. This is terrible."

Freshman Matthew Klim said he hasn't yet heard from one friend who he
knows was in Norris during the shooting.

"We're all just really, really nervous to find out if she's still with
us," Klim said. "It's really hard because coming down here, this has
always been such a safe campus and following the events the first day of
school with the shooting at Blacksburg, then having the two bomb
threats, then this, it's all really hard to deal with."

Virginia Tech student Blake Harrison said he was on his way to class
near Norris Hall when he saw chaos.

"This teacher comes flying out of Norris, he's bleeding from his arm or
his shoulder ... all these students were coming out of Norris trying to
take shelter in Randolph [Hall]. All these kids were freaked out,"
Harrison said.

The students and faculty were barricading themselves in their classrooms
after what one person described as an Asian male in a vest opened fire.

The shooter was "wearing a vest covered in clips was just unloading on
their door, going from classroom to classroom … They said it never
seemed like it was going to stop and there was just blood all over,"
Harrison said.

Matt Merone, a senior, was on his way to campus Monday morning when he
saw a police officer grab a male student who was bleeding from his
stomach area and put him in a police vehicle, presumably en route to a
hospital. Other students were seen jumping out windows to escape the
gunman.

Student Amanda Johnson was walking between Norris and Randolph halls
around 9:45 a.m. when she heard six shots fired.

"I've been target shooting since I was a little kid, so I knew what the
sounds were," said Johnson, who saw a male student jump out of a Norris
Hall window to escape.

"It just seemed like students were trying to figure out any way to get
out of that building as soon as possible," added student Mike O'Brien.

Students said the first e-mail warning they got from the university
about any shootings came more than two hours after the first shots were
fired, around 9:30. By that time, the second shooting had taken place.

"I kind of want to know basically what happened … why school wasn't
closed" after the first shootings, said freshman Kelly Kaskiw. "Lots of
students are confused about that, whether the situation could have been
prevented or not."

Many students didn't check their e-mail before heading to class Monday,
so they didn't read the school's warnings about the first shooting.
Those who did check their e-mail said they stayed put.

"There are police driving throughout the neighborhoods with a
loudspeaker saying, 'This is an emergency, everyone stay inside, we're
looking for suspicious activity," said Brittany Sammon, a senior
Virginia Tech student staying at an apartment off campus. "There's no
one outside at all, there's no traffic, there's nothing … everyone's
doing what they said."

Premeditated Murder?

The FBI joined police on the scene to investigate. Agency spokesman
Richard Kolko in Washington said there was no immediate evidence to
suggest it was a terrorist attack, "but all avenues will be explored."

A senior official with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives told FOX News that the agency's response to the Virginia Tech
incident was "immediate" and the bureau is making available all of its
local and national resources, including its crimes lab, to the Virginia
State Police.

Ten ATF agents went to the Virginia Tech campus to assist with weapons
identification. They were collecting shell casings and running some
preliminary tests on scene.

Once the weapon has been identified, they will begin an "urgent trace"
to determine its origins — where it came from, to whom it was registered
and its history of ownership. All material will be sent to the ATF's
national crime lab in Maryland.

The ATF is also assisting with "forensic mapping" of the crime scene — a
painstaking process employed by investigators that 'maps out' the scene
and incident in minute detail.

Former Assistant FBI Director Bill Gavin said if reports that the
shooter chained the doors to Norris Hall are true, that is "definite
proof of premeditation," as is the number of magazines and rounds of
ammunition he apparently had.

"He didn't take that just to shoot one particular person," Gavin said.
"He had to have something going on there that said he was going to shoot
a whole bunch of people at the same time."

All classes were canceled for Monday and Tuesday but campus will open at
8 a.m. EDT Tuesday. Faculty and staff on certain parts of campus were
told to go homeFamilies wishing to reunite with students are suggested
to meet at the Inn at Virginia Tech. School officials are making plans
for convocation Tuesday at noon at Cassell Coliseum.

Hi everyone.

I'm still alive but freezing my tail off. We got 8 inches of snow last
week and it reached 5 degrees below zero that night. That's not why I'm
e-mailing though.

You may have heard about a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul last
Thursday. It was at one of our FOB's (Forward Observation Bases) about
27 miles from here.

But the real story is why no one was killed.

We employ several thousand Afghans on our various bases. Not to mention
the economy that is fed by the money these locals are making.
Some are laborers and builders, but some are skilled workers. We even
have one Afghan that just became OSHA qualified, the first ever. Some
are skilled HVAC workers.

Anyway, there is this one Afghan that we call Rambo. We have actually
given him a couple of sets of the new ACU uniforms (the new Army digital
camouflage) with the name tag RAMBO on it. His entire family was killed
by the Taliban and his home was where our base currently resides. So
this guy really had nowhere else to go. He has reached such a level of
trust with US Forces that his job is to stand at the front gate and
basically be the first security screening. Since he can't have a weapon,
he found a big red pipe. So he stands there at the front gate in his US
Army ACU uniform with his red pipe. If a vehicle approaches the gate too
fast or fails to stop he slams his pipe down on their hood. Then once
the gate is lifted the vehicle moves on the 2nd gate where the US Army
MP's are. So he's like the first line of defense. Last Thursday at 0930
hrs a Toyota Corolla packed with explosives and some Jack Ass that
thinks he has 72 Virgins waiting for him approached the gate.

When he saw Rambo he must have recognized him and known the gig was up.

But he needed to get to that 2nd gate to detonate and take American
lives. So he slams his foot on the gas which almost causes the metal
gate to go up but mostly catches on the now broken windshield. Rambo
fearlessly ran to the vehicle, reached thru the window and jerked the
suicide bomber out of the vehicle before he could detonate and commenced
to putting some red pipe to his heathen ass.

He detained the guy until the MP got there.

The vehicle only exploded when they tried to push it off base with a
robot but know one was hurt.

I'm still waiting for someone to give this guy a medal or something.
Nothing less than instant US citizenship or something. A hat was passed
around and a lot of money was given to him in thanks by both soldiers
and civilians that are working over here. I guess I just wanted to share
this because I want people to know that it's working over here. They
have tasted freedom. This makes it worth it to me.

JOHN, CPT , US ARMY

Preface - Training the Force

The U. S. Army exists for one reason—to serve the Nation. From the
earliest days of its creation, the Army has embodied and defended the
American way of life and its constitutional system of government. It
will continue to answer the call to fight and win our Nation’s wars,
whenever and wherever they may occur. That is the Army’s non-negotiable
contract with the American people.

The Army will do whatever the Nation asks it to do, from decisively
winning wars to promoting and keeping the peace. To this end, the Army
must be strategically responsive and ready to be dominant at every point
across the full spectrum of military operations. Today, the Army must
meet the challenge of a wider range of threats and a more complex set of
operating environments while incorporating new and diverse technology.
The Army meets these challenges through its core competencies: Shape the
Security Environment, Prompt Response, Mobilize the Army, Forcible Entry
Operations, Sustained Land Dominance and Support Civil Authorities. We
must maintain combat readiness as our primary focus while transitioning
to a more agile, versatile, lethal, and survivable Army.

Doctrine represents a professional army’s collective thinking about how
it intends to fight, train, equip, and modernize. When the first edition
of FM 25-100, Training the Force, was published in 1988, it represented
a revolution in the way the Army trains. The doctrine articulated by FMs
25-100, Training the Force, and 25-101, Battle Focused Training, has
served the Army well. These enduring principles of training remain
sound; much of the content of these manuals remains valid for both today
and well into the future. FM 7-0 updates FM 25-100 to our current
operational environment and will soon be followed by FM 7-1, which will
update FM 25-101. FM 7-0 is the Army’s capstone training doctrine and is
applicable to all units, at all levels, and in all components. While the
examples in this manual are principally focused at division and below,
FM 7-0 provides the essential fundamentals for all individual, leader,
and unit training. Training for warfighting is our number one priority
in peace and in war. Warfighting readiness is derived from tactical and
technical competence and confidence. Competence relates to the ability
to fight our doctrine through tactical and technical execution.
Confidence is the individual and collective belief that we can do all
things better than the adversary and the unit possesses the trust and
will to accomplish the mission.

FM 7-0 provides the training and leader development methodology that
forms the foundation for developing competent and confident soldiers and
units that will win decisively in any environment. Training is the means
to achieve tactical and technical competence for specific tasks,
conditions, and standards. Leader Development is the deliberate,
continuous, sequential, and progressive process, based on Army values,
that develops soldiers and civilians into competent and confident
leaders capable of decisive action.

Closing the gap between training, leader development, and battlefield
performance has always been the critical challenge for any army.
Overcoming this challenge requires achieving the correct balance between
training management and training execution. Training management focuses
leaders on the science of training in terms of resource efficiencies
(such as people, time, and ammunition) measured against tasks and
standards. Training execution focuses leaders on the art of leadership
to develop trust, will, and teamwork under varying
conditions—intangibles that must be developed to win decisively in
combat. Leaders integrate this science and art to identify the right
tasks, conditions, and standards in training, foster unit will and
spirit, and then adapt to the battlefield to win decisively.

FM 7-0 provides the Training Management Cycle and the necessary
guidelines on how to plan, execute, and assess training and leader
development. Understanding “How the Army Trains the Army” to fight is
key to successful joint, interagency, multinational (JIM), and combined
arms operations. Effective training leads to units that execute the
Army’s core competencies and capabilities. All leaders are trainers!
This manual is designed for leaders at every level and in every type of
organization in the Army.

Before make a statement about something make sure that you got your
first screwed on right. Too many who thinks this topic was an insult it
wasn't many men and women who serve in the military will see the humor
behind this cause they know the truth and went through it just like me.
But, then some will take it as an insult because they don't know how to
lighten up.


As one famous Drill Sargeant would say:" Soldier, lighten up your goal
here is to fight the enemy on level ground not, sink in anger,stupidity
and pride cause all that gets is you shot and guess what soldier if you
**** up you not only get shot but, put your whole platoon at risk of
getting shot."


what affects you will also affect your fellow soldiers, you **** up and
there dead....So don't be a ****-up.

I remember my drill sargeant telling that my team is a functional unit
and we can't survival without each other. If just ****s up we all ****
up.

In the barracks if one man bed was messy and his chest was messy he
didn't get punished We Did... I love his saying as long as this
particular Private keeps ****ing up he won't be penalize. The unit will
be held accountable for his ****-ups...

The majority of these viruses programs are created by ex-hacker geniuses
hired by both McAFREe and Microsoft in order to seller more anti-virus
or firewall, or internet securtiy programs in a couple of weeks or month
time if this virus is true they are working on mass production of the
solution.

time to break out the canoe and the emergency rations that taste like
cardboard but, high in carbohydrates. The only thing pretty decent in
the army rations is the peanut butter and jelly and the freeze dried ice
cream... Maybe the eggs taste okay. but, the rest taste like crap but,
it definite keeps you alive.