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National football league Star Pat Tiliman joined the army soon after americans everywhere were justifiably proud he May not have wanted to be a role Model or an example but thais what he became but then tragically Tiliman was killed by Friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004 now three years after Bis death his fam Ilys relentless smear Campaign against the army for its handling of the Case has erased All the Good will his enlistment Cre ated at least in my mind the sequence of bad decisions and pub Lic relation motivated misrepresentations of what happened on that afghan Hillside were rightly denounced by the Tiliman family those mistakes never should have happened but you know what the guilty have been punished and the generals have Grov eled their apologies to the Tillmans none of that is going to change what happened to Pat what do they want some poor Ranger to go to jail because in the confusion of Battle a stray Bullet hit their son Friendly fire is a reality it happens maybe if they had Ever been in combat they would understand Tiliman obviously cared about America and died fighting to protect it would he have wanted the army to have to spend so much of its resources defending itself against politically motivated charges lev eled by his family resources that could be better used to serve troops on the front lines at the Bottom of All this i think the Tiliman family is simply in pain because their boy was taken from them nothing is More understandable than that but the closure they seek will never come from publicly trashing the army Tillmans As a Soldier in asking you when is enough enough  combat outpost War Eagle Iraq team deserves recognition i read unit sees efforts stabilize City drive Back insurgents article March it made me sick that nowhere in the Arti Cle was the police transition team for a Ditha mentioned we arrived in Laditha Iraq in August 2006 when we made our Way to the Sta Tion where the put then resided a Bro Ken Down building awaited us the first two nights we spent in hum vees while engineers constructed posts for us to provide Security for the building once we were in the building Days and nights consisted of trying to make the Structure liable and being shot at and mortared we lived there without Power water and any other amenity you could thin of in november the 20plus iraqi police who had been at the base increased to More than 120 officers and policemen in addition to the training received at the police Academy the put trained the iraqi police at Laditha dam before their arrival at the base Tell us what you think stars and stripes welcomes your comments on editorials and columns that Are published in the newspaper and values letters on topics of importance in the lives of our readers All letters must be signed and must include the writers address or base and Telephone number please limit All setters to 300 words we Reserve the right to edit letters for length taste and clarity Send your letters to us mail stars and stripes unit 29480 Apo a 09211 International mail stars and stripes Postrach 1330 64345 Griesheim via fax country code 0 Dan 3498395 email the dynamics of our Hie at the iraqi police station was a constant struggle to keep All of the iraqi police As Well off As they could be and keep the building in a liable condition we had been a part of watching the City go from highly kinetic to where it is now during their stay Here but when you men Tion iraqi police in Laditha during the time Frame you Are writing about i am insulted you did not include the put we started the police station from scratch and have now handed it Over to a new put something we didst have the pleasure of being handed to us to not include the pit team that was in Laditha from August of 2006 to March of 2007 when mentioning the involvement of iraqi police in the City is blasphemous Marine Cpl f Odd Justin Maushart Masa airbase Kuwait sneaky move by Halliburton Halliburton one of the largest defense contractors in the United states is moving its corporate Headquarters from Texas Usa to Dubai United Arab emirates is moving Headquarters to Dubai Brief March Why is that does it need to be closer to the fight or closer to its Energy invest ments or does it wish to take advantage of Dubai corporate tax Laws is Halliburton moving to Dubai to avoid paying taxes on the profits it earns from operation iraqi Freedom if so that May be Legal but it is ethically irresponsible part of the pay our soldiers receive Here in the War zone is tax free but not All of it you dont see us sneaking off to Dubai to avoid our responsibilities As citizens of these United states maj Chris Nystuen Camp Taj Iraq standards Are the same Ive been Reading the letters Ever since i was deployed to Iraq in october 2006 but All suffer when standards drop March 9 caught my interest More than others this is a subject i frequently discuss with fellow noncommissioned officers however when i read dont separate Active guard letter March it brought up another subject i frequently discuss which is the separation of branches be it Active guard Navy air Force or marines i agree 100 percent with the writer of All suffer when standards drop because he want trying to make a separation be tween branches in fact he said this Type of behaviour was less common in the Active duty ranks but i did see it there As Well i would have to agree with him every morning i walk to breakfast and i cant help but pick out the number of peo ple completely out of uniform they walk around with army combat uniforms that hang Halfway Down their Waist no head gear or my favorite no weapon i would say about 75 percent of the personnel i see Are National guard or Reserve i would love nothing More than to Correct every Soldier i see who looks like a soup Sand wich but some of them outrank me which is astonishing i dont care How Many times a service member has been deployed the standards Are the same whether he is at Home or in a combat zone to fellow service members next time you put on your uniform take a look in the Mirror and make sure you meet the Stan Dards sgt Albert Carpenter Camp Speicher Iraq Many Coulter fans keep quiet i am very Happy that you have made the decision not to dump the Ann Coulter column or calumnies ombudsman column March her column is a breath of fresh air just like stars and stripes ombudsman David Mazzare iia wrote you either like her column or you people like her column Man not the people who like her Arent going to write in about it they Are just going to read her column and enjoy what she has to say the few people who dont like it Are the ones who write in against her and make it seem like they Are the majority Only because the people who like what she has to say find no reason to write in about her who Are those people who Are demand ing that you should take Coulters column out of the paper who do they think they Are Why do they think that they can deny me the privilege of Reading her column be cause they dont like it if the people dont like the column they  read it they have no right to deny me the right to do that if they cant agree with it being in the paper maybe they should try and find something a bit More Liberal to read like a comic Book or something from the fantasy shelf i dont like Arianna Huffington or what she has to say but i am not going to de Mand that you take her column out of the paper because i think she is full of hot air i am simply not going to read her column i wish the others would do the same for me doonesbury sgt 1st class Wayne Mercier retired Ludwigshafen Germany by Garry Trudeau 60v Hipp Bon a p5k50u As prime plop a9 you at 60nna i mean what Mitt ally in not f uu9jbuw Nana Nana Ipoh i00wt ishtar chan6in6 your stances on Abor  i