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would like to say i appreciate stars and but it offends me when you portray an individual who has brought discredit upon herself and the air Force As a hero airman bares it All to help wounded june in sure there Are Many other servicemen Bers who Are serving our country with dig Honor and respect who the article about the Playboy Michelle is a waste of Ink and is a discredit to the air she is not an she was discharged she does not represent this great service stars and stripes should apologize to the air Force Community for publishing this in the future if you Are going to glorify discharged members of any please state it in the such As former Playboy master Garcia Johnson Kadena air Okinawa in defense of Cook in response to where Are Cooks gloves May where a master sergeant in Camp complained about a picture where the Cook want wearing gloves and a hair net that Cook is living in an outpost in the Middle of what must look like the Foothills of feeding infantry and artillery troops who go out for a couple Days or More to engage the enemy in brutal ground Here in we do have the luxury of foreign workers to prepare our while that Camp in Afghanistan does i bet that Cook takes cover several times a Day when mortars drop which was stated in that the mortars arrive daily on our Camp Here in Baghdad As How often does the letter writer take cover from rockets and mortars where he is How Many troops in his unit have been killed my mortars and gunfire where he is there Are Many things to be aware of in combat in Iraq and in the letter writer should do a reality and search his Many of us Are going to be Lucky to go Home Tell us what you think stars and stripes welcomes your comments on editorials and columns that Are published in the and values letters on topics of importance in the lives of our All letters must be and must include the writers address or base and Telephone please limit All letters to 300 we Reserve the right to edit letters for taste and Send your letters to mail stars and stripes unit 29480 apoae09211 International mail stars and stripes Postrach 1330 64345 Griesheim via fax country code 0 Dan 3498395 email  he should come up Here and do a patrol with me in Al Aida see All of these dead torture victims we get to pick up daily see an american Soldier who was mutilated in an red attack be part of an ambush and be on the business end of automatic weapons feel the suffer ing of combat extreme danger and seeming helplessness that go along with All i have mentioned and face the terrorists with All that attention to detail that he must Dustan Johnson Baghdad information for the enemy the june 12 Mideast and Italy editions of stars and stripes have emblazoned across the front Page report new vehicle can withstand can someone explain to me Why it was necessary to tip off our enemies that they now might need to change their bomb tac tics whose Side is the american Media on Del Wilber Camp Iraq no need to cover Paris Hilton i think it is very sad that we have any news or information on the cover of stars and or any newspaper for that mat about the going son of Paris As i am writing this and throughout the time Ive thought about writing this letter i fail to find one show or Ven Ture that has been Worth watching or hear what exactly does she do Shes the Enron of its hard to say exactly what she but she makes killer Money doing i understand that papers need to be entertainment and movie stars Are a fact of but if it comes Down to plastering this sort of garbage on the front Page of a what exactly Are we saying about ourselves this is All it takes to entertain people Are you Seri Ous read a senior airman Jack Crish Balad air Iraq doonesbury Acle does Good work Ive seen my fair share of ridiculous let ters in but the paranoid rantings from Acle an oxymoron june 5 takes the in no huge fan of the american civil liberties but in All for Sepa ration of Church and Public schools Are not the places to be handing out religious if you want your kids to be indoctrinated according to your beliefs and taught that life came from a giant Man in the then by All Means Send them to a private religious the letter writer goes on to say that handing out condoms in school is causing teens to have int the entire Point of handing out condoms in schools to ensure teens dont get pregnant the Acle int trying to impose its godless beliefs on its trying to prevent religious fundamentalists from turning the Usa from the Beacon of democracy it is to the Christian version of the islamic Republic of and As far As the letter writer compar ing the lawsuit the Acle filed to nazi Ger until the Acle president starts Call ing for the final solution to the Christian his letter will be pure paranoia so common with the religious senior airman Casey Leavings Yokota air Japan gis More than their tattoos in regard to the june 6 letter tattooed soldiers look silly advising firs line us snap link in your Ranger Bud Dies and let them know How stupid they Ive had the privilege and Honor to serve beside soldiers with far More tattoos than i i serve with most of them they serve the same great nation that gives others the right to make fun of their tattoos and they do so serv ing in the army has its costs for some of my tattooed friends have paid in blood some have paid with their they certainly Are not lesser men for hav ing there great its my understanding the army revised its policy on tattoos in an Effort to bolster recruitment of highly qualified great americans who might otherwise have been excluded from tattoos Are now permitted on the hands and Back of the neck if they Are not inde sexist or maybe instead of worrying about sol Diers leaders should train their sol Diers to fight the real enemy they face on the Battlefield an enemy who with their waking thought is hellbent on the violent death and maiming of soldiers an enemy who Waves As your Convoy drives by and throws an rkg3 antitank Gre Nade onto your truck an enemy trained in shooting around a soldiers body Armor an enemy who watches and Waits for Opp Ortu in glad my Brothers in arms care enough to Tell me to avoid that pothole and watch those Guys on the in Stead of making fun of my 1st class Michael Albrecht fort by Garry Trudeau thank you although icokih6lug510 ke5fmz company