Recruiting dead soldiers...

[SaveOurDemocracy]

I may have missed this if it was previously posted.


I was speaking to my sister a short time ago, her son (my godson/nephew) is in the Air Force and, if this proposed escalation goes forward, will likely be on his way to Iraq. She asked if I'd heard about the recruitment letters sent out to deceased soldiers encouraging them to re-up. I hadn't ... so googled it, and figured I'd share with others who also may have missed it in the rush of the holidays.

Good grief....

Army mix-up sends recruitment letters to dead soldiers

By JOHN HEILPRIN
Associated Press


WASHINGTON - The Army on Saturday blamed a computer mix-up for recruitment letters mistakenly sent out over the holidays to the families of 275 officers killed or wounded in action in Iraq.

"Every Army leader is just sick that this happened," said Gen. Richard Cody, the Army's vice chief of staff. "This is an inexcusable mistake. Five years into this war, the Army can do better than this - and we will."

Senior Army leaders were frustrated and disappointed by their blunder, Cody said. The Army used the wrong database, he said, when it generated a mass mailing of letters between Christmas and New Year's Day to more than 5,100 Army officers who recently had left the service.

Included were letters to 75 officers killed in action - more than one-third of all Army officers who have died in Iraq since the war began - and 200 more wounded in action.

The letters encourage the officers to consider returning to active duty.

Cody said the Army immediately began contacting each family to offer a personal apology.

"I can't imagine how these soldiers and family members felt upon receiving those letters," he said. "Army senior leaders also plan on personally contacting them in writing to apologize and let them know that the Army is still a family made strong by caring leadership and strong Army families."...

http://www.theeagle.com/stories/010707/nation_20070107031.php

[Double T]

1. Everything associated with bushco has become disfunctional............

and incompetent. There is ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE for this colossal blunder.

[Crunchy Frog]

2. Zombie armies can be very effective.

I saw someone else post that on another thread, and thought it worth stealing.:D

(It's an outrage, but a decent subject for morbid humor.)