Wiki-Leaks Exposes needless deaths of my fellow soldiers !
The nitty gritty of what I wrote below from my 15 years of personal experience in the U.S. Army and Arizona Army National Guard is that men and women die for the avoidable negligence of some of its officers and their arrogance.
As I have been continually attacked by those who do not believe what I write or whom believ...e that it is alright or excusable for soldiers to die by the negligence of officers, I must declare that I received all honorable discharges from the U.S.. Army and received an Army Commendation Medal for my last stint in while serving with my Arizona Army National Guard Unit in Iraq. In addition, I have other brother and sister soldiers who will disagree with me and I am glad they do so because every time they and I speak out and suffer our First Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution, they show that my fellow soldiers did not for nothing but instead to protect and defend the freedoms that many Americans take for granted today.
To be sure, I do not make this statement about all officers for many are good and honorable men and women but this does not excuse the fact that in the U.S. Army and in the U.S. Armed Forces as a whole that high ranking officers do not prosecute officers in a great many incidences or hold them rightfully accountable for their acts of negligence and arrogance that causes the death or injury of many of my fellow soldiers that did not have to die or be injured due to their horrible uncaring behaviour.
One need look no further than the death of Pat Tillman and the excusal of unacceptable behaviour of the high ranking general Mchrystal and those who paved the way for the aiding and abetting of his negligence in that specific infamous case. Below, is an account of my personal experience in Iraq of this arrogant negligence on the part of high ranking officers:
We drove our patrol Humvees over the same highway without equipment that the U.S. Army had already been provided, which was a device called a "RINO". It's purpose as clearly published in the Stars and Stripes newspaper was to set off the deadliest of I.E.D.s known more commonly to my fellow soldiers as Platter Charges or I.F.P.s We practically begged our senior chain of command for this device as we saw all of the regular Army units around us driving with this device on their Humvees. In the meantime my first brother in 2nd platoon died from this very device called a Platter Charge and it is quite reasonable to believe that the device the U.S. Army was supplying to its regular Army forces and not not our National Guard company would have saved the life of my fellow soldier who was blown off of a highway overpass that quite closely resembles the highway overpasses here in Phoenix. All I heard was a thunderclap yet there were no clouds in the sky that morning as we drove furiously to aid my brothers in the squad that had just been attacked with a platter charge but it was no use for my fellow fallen soldier for he had died instantly. Thankfully, due to the grace of GOD we were able to save the lives of the other two men in that humvee even after it had been blown off the overpass and plummetted many feet below to the ground.
Then, exactly 10 days later my second brother was driving his humvee in a patrol that I had begged to go out on, again, yet another platter charge went off within 400 yards of the first platter charge that on the same stretch of road that had killed my first brother and for the 2nd time another of my brothers was murdered. But the squad of Humvees he was with still did not have the device called a R.I.N.O. which could have saved his life and the serious injuries to my other brothers in that Humvee that tragic day.
All these injuries and deaths to my brothers and sisters was, I believe caused for the lack of this device that the U.S. Army for whatever reason would not supply to my Arizona National Guard Company as we had to watch our fellow Regular Army M.P. motor units drive all around us.
The above incident...is something I am sure that none of you will ever hear of or about and the reason is that high ranking Colonels, generals and politicians do not want to be accused of or implicated in the deaths and serious injuries to what they had surely caused by their negligent or purposeful behaviour and actions in failing to provide these R.I.N.O devices to my Arizona Army National Guard Military Police unit. Negligent Homicide is something that is very rarely charged against officers in the U.S. Armed Forces in times of armed conflict.
But you see, in the U.S. Armed Forces under the excuse of war, almost no officer or officers is ever charged with negligent homicide, that's what they don't want you know when you entrust your loved ones to them because if people really knew this, they would never allow their children, wives and husbands to die for the negligence of arrogant and van glorious officers.
Leonard Clark email: leonardclark385@hotmail.com
former PFC, Persian Gulf/Iraq Occupation III vet 2005-2006
860th M.P. Company, Arizona Army National Guard
Arizona endorsed Green party candidate for
Arizona congressional district #3
10-24-10