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Active duty after posing for Playboy spread article feb 17 is berated i dont think there is really any difference they Are both using their looks to get them somewhere we Many of the the Media and the armed forces glorify one and vilify the other any response to that Petty officer 2nd class Eric Edwards Kuwait senior enlisted failed troops i agree with where were senior enlisted letter March about conditions at Walter Reed medical whatever happened to senior enlisted taking care of their people every Branch is guilty of this and politics is the Issue its not career enhancing or politically Correct to make Waves about the rights of your soldiers sailors airmen and marines where were the command sergeants major chief master sergeants master chief Petty officers and master gunnery sergeants when their people needed them its not just the senior officers who have responsibility in this fiasco but senior enlisted who Are More worried about making politically Correct commercials for american forces network to and telling the brass what they want to hear instead of the truth every senior enlisted person and not just at Walter Reed should be charged with dereliction of duty its their duty to take care of their people especially when they cant and they failed miserably chief Petty officer Dave Faunce retired Camp Buehring Kuwait wants More Iraq letters in sitting in Baghdad Reading the mid East edition of stars and stripes i enjoy Reading the letters Section however i cant help but be annoyed at a Large por Tion of the letters you decide to publish of the five letters in the March 23 Edi Tion Only one letter is from someone in Iraq i dont care what a writer in Stuttgart Germany has to say about skill badges on the uniform my opinion is your uni form int a resume its a uniform and everyone should look the same except for the rank and name skill badges should be limited to the dress uniform if the Only validation to ones existence in the army is the collection of skill badges then those people have serious Inadequacy issues they need help with doonesbury Ella Schatvet outside she Tell us you think stars and stripes welcomes your comments on editorials and columns that m published in the newspaper and values letters on top eff in poor Fence in tace fives of our readers All Leters roust be a feed and Mast include the writers address or base an Telephone number please limit All letters to 300 words we Reserve the Light to edit betters for Fen pfc taste and clarity Send your letters to ers forum stars Afif slopes lift and stripes 72317 top porgy i Hateau Tokyo Ive also seen letters from people in Germany about the Ann Coulter and Ari Anna Huffington columns you put in when in Here in Iraq i want to see Opin ions of other people in Iraq not from peo ple in Germany or Okinawa or any other exotic location if you Are not getting enough letters from people in Iraq let us know ill write More often and in sure a lot More people will too Ive seen a lot of letters regarding Coulters Faggot comment and chair Man of the joint chiefs of staff Marine Gen Peter paces opinions on homosexuals in the military everyone has an Opin Ion and i defend everyone right to voice that opinion i dont care if the Opin Ion hurts someones feelings that life get Over it chief warrant officer 2 Brandon Edgar Camp Victory Iraq fix problems in us first i am a sixth generation 15year Veter an i am from the Kansas National guard and have seen firsthand the disdain from Active duty troops and civilian contractors though i Wear the same uniform and conform to the same rules they do it would seem that i and others like me Are a lesser life form i see the reason most of the world Dis likes americans we Are rude waste Ful impolite and convinced of our superiority Over other cultures until a few weeks ago i too was in that group now having been on the receiving end of that i have changed a Abr Driver passed a line of about 100 local National Drivers to Wash his hands and told me he did not have to wait in line behind them i told him that he was no better than they were that sort of thinking is prevalent not Only with civil ians but with the military As Well its Dis gusting i read about the conditions at veterans affairs hospitals and How underfunded they Are and that president Bush is sending billion to latin America Why cant the us government spend the billions it sends to other countries on the homeless health care and orphan Chil Dren at Home Why is Bush doing whatever he wants with apparent disregard for what the peo ple want the Only tiling he is doing is up Ping the bad Guys body count when is he going to realize that this is a War he cant win quit sending americans to die it sad Dens me that i am now ashamed for the first time to be an american someone needs to pull the reins on Bush and this nonsense and fix the prob lems at Home leave the rest of the world to fix its own problems pc Charles Zimmerman logistics support area Anaconda Iraq dont separate Active guard i agree 99 percent with All suffer when standards drop letter March i am a National guard Soldier and i respectfully want to bring to the senior non commissioned officers attention that his comment about especially guard and re serve soldiers having Lack of discipline was not necessary i have seen Way too Many Active duty soldiers act in Lessith unprofessional ways we All Wear the same uniform and it All says us army across our Chest not National guard not Reserve not week end Warrior our brigade combat team is guard but we have several Active units that fall under our command we work seamlessly together i know a first ser Geant from an Active Battery with us As we were talking we Learned that i have been deployed longer and More often than he has been in the last five years we need to break Down that act Vever sus guard separation when one Soldier fails Active guard Reserve we All fail in this eve demanding a Rochal legged environment we need to have the sergeants first class through command sergeants major get Back to old school and Start cracking Heads again sgt 1st class Douglas a Schultz Balad air base Iraq troops up North have it worse i am a Soldier in Kuwait for the next year and am sick of hearing some other soldiers complain about our conditions when there Are soldiers not More than a few Miles North of Here who live in worse situations and definitely have to go through Way worse than we do i just want to thank All the soldiers up North risking their lives every Day and on top of that not complaining about where they Are we truly take things for granted pc Sabrina Christiansen Camp Buehring Kuwait by Garry Trudeau you know a lot of sap thin65 055ipes getting Bloton up can happen own Range suffice to say Here id get her life Back 50iaje have that in com Mon inter Esting i Hows the Rifet