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Don't Ask the Army, They Don't Want to Tell
Supersoldier Col. David "Hack" Hackworth over at WorldNetDaily, in the context of a piece lamenting the army's tendency to lie and exaggerate to create heroes such as Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch, notes:
I recently reported how the Army Recruiting Command was having a serious shortfall in enlistment and how that could impact on troop strength in Iraq. Within a day of my story's release, the Recruiting Command put out an order that read: "The daily production report [which I incidentally based some of my article on] ... is now considered a 'For Official Use Only' ... Dissemination of that report with[out] the approval of this HQ ... is prohibited."
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Warren|12.15.04 @ 5:48PM|#
You guys need to figure out how to timestamp a post to the time it get's posted instead of when it was started.
This is a fine post, but it won't get the attention it deserves cause it's burried five hours deep.
|12.17.04 @ 8:41AM|#
The point that is missing here is that the Army reads Hackworth because he knows what he is talking about. There are quite a few orders issued about the things that Hackworth discusses in his articles. He should be on everyones must read list.