Monday, March 12, 2007

Fit Enough to Fight

Salon reports that the Army is sending troops to fight in Iraq who were classified as "medically unfit" to fight.

Maybe the soldiers that are complaining are just shirking their duty.

Maybe they were medically unfit but now are just fine.

Maybe they are physically or mentally unfit and are in increased danger because of their medical condition.

But I guess we will never know until someone with authority looks into it.

1 comment:

Don and Sher said...

I'd say by reading the article it is a little of both physically and mentally.

I tell what was not reported over the past four years is the injuries and deaths to out of shape Army reserve and National Guard who suffered heart attacks, back injures etc. Many of these guys in the reserves are in the 40's and 50's and were not in shape for war.