whitetailkiller Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 the cowards should prosecuted to the max!!!!!! desertion is punishable by death!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Re: Prosecute to the fullest! No excuses. Those reservists should never have signed up and drawn the benefits of the military if they did not want to follow orders. Refusal to follow command is no different in my opinion than desertion. In some cases it is worse in the way that it can jeoparadize other soldiers. Have to agree that those involved should be prosecuted to the fullest extent the law will allow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slugshooter Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Re: Prosecute to the fullest! Here is my quandary. We look on the outside and hear the reports of contaminated fuel, no armor, broken down trucks, and our first reaction is that they really refused the mission because they didn't want to go in harms way. What if they didn't really outright refuse the mission, what if all the claims they made are true, that the fuel was contaminated and if it was transported and put into an aircraft then we'd have a line of planes sitting on the flight line that can't take off or they'll blow up. Was this their first mission on arriving in Iraq, probably not, what about all the other convoys they have taken while in harms way, they could have been running convoys every day for the last year with bullets whizzing by and roadside bombs going off and devlivered on time with no casualties, all of a sudden they refuse a mission for reasons given, and they are traitors and deserters. Those people are in Iraq, they aren't in Canada, so they don't qualify as deserters, I have a lot more respect for them already over there and doing their jobs then those who criticize them for not taking a mission when none of know all the facts. If you were in their shoes, knew the fuel was contaminated and dangerous, knew the trucks were broken down and dangerous and knew you didn't have the armor you were supposed to have. What would you do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Re: Prosecute to the fullest! Seems mighty odd to me that another group(the national guardsman) had to do the job that was not done by those reservists if those soldiers in the reserves were following their orders. Bottom line your commanding officer says do it, you do it. You were in the military, you of all people should be the first to understand that. Questioning and or refusing to follow orders and not doing an assigned job based on your thoughts or on what you feel is not and has not ever been something that has been acceptable behaviour of soldiers and for very simple reason. They were given orders and whether they liked it or not they should have followed those orders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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