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I could have been a mom by now..,,twice but fate and medical science and poor health decided otherwise. I lost my real mom not so long ago but I am glad I am still able to celebrate Moms day 2010 with the mom who adopted me and took care of me ever since I was a baby. Love ya mom.
So let me get this straight - Larry King is getting his 8th divorce, Elizabeth Taylor is possibly getting married for a 9th time, Britney Spears had a 55 hour marriage. Jesse James and Tiger Woods are screwing EVERYTHING - yet the idea of same-sex marriage is going to destroy the institution of marriage?? Really? REALLY??
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon official in charge of the wounded warrior program said Sunday he has been forced to resign, as the military continues to struggle with how best to care for troops injured in combat.
Noel Koch said in an e-mail that he was asked to step down by Clifford Stanley, the undersecretary of defense for personnel. Koch had been serving as the deputy undersecretary of defense for wounded warrior care and transition policy.
Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said Defense Secretary Robert Gates had asked Stanley to do a full review of the Pentagon's personnel and readiness office. He said this is not the first nor the last change to take place.
"He was given wide latitude to make needed changes so that our men and women in uniform are better served," said Morrell. "What you're seeing is that the overhaul of that vitally important office is under way."
Koch said he believes the decision was unjust and that he resigned "under duress" after Stanley told him he had no confidence in him. The Pentagon had no comment.
"No explanation was given, although I pressed for one," he said. "No prior indication of dissatisfaction with the work of this office was cited."
Koch said the wounded warrior program has done good work during the past 11 months since his appointment to lead the new office.
Nearly nine years of war, in Afghanistan and Iraq, has physically, mentally and emotionally battered the military, sending thousands home with severe injuries and spawning spikes in suicides and post-traumatic stress issues.
Officials have scrambled to set up transition units to help wounded troops recover and return to society or even the military, but the flood of patients and the complexities of their injuries have often overwhelmed the system.
Someone commented on above article with the following:
The program works or it doesn't.
If it doesn't, fire the decision makers and get a new crew in there.
Warriors first, all else second.
Do you agree ??
YORBA LINDA — Family and friends of a 19-year-old Marine from Yorba Linda will pay their last respects Tuesday to the teen who was killed last month while serving in Afghanistan.
Santa Ana police will escort the body of Lance Cpl. Rick J. Centanni from a Fullerton funeral home to St. Martin De Porres Roman Catholic Faith Community at 19767 Yorba Linda Blvd. in Yorba Linda, for a 10 a.m. funeral Mass. Centanni's father, Sgt. Jon Centanni, serves with the Santa Ana Police Department's gang unit.
Centanni and Sgt. Major Robert J. Cottle, a 45-year-old LAPD veteran, were killed March 24 by the same roadside improvised explosive device while riding in an armored truck in southern Helmand Province.
Cottle also lived in Yorba Linda and both men served together in the 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, based in Camp Pendleton. The two had grown close serving together as Cottle mentored Centanni.
Tuesday's service promises to be a full military and police salute to Centanni, said Mike Shanahan, who is handling the funeral arrangements.
Centanni's friends, some of whom are Marines or high school classmates, will serve as pallbearers, Shanahan said.
The Mass will include a video tribute to Centanni and last about 90 minutes, Shanahan said.
Hundreds of Santa Ana and Buena Park police officers are expected to lead the procession from the church to Riverside National Cemetery, Shanahan said, noting that Centanni's mother worked at the Buena Park Police Department as a civilian.
The funeral procession will pass major landmarks in Centanni's life, including Esperanza High School, where he played football.
The procession will head out of the church's parking lot south on Fairmont Boulevard, turn west on Orangethorpe Avenue, north on Kellogg Drive past Esperanza High School and then head back up Kellogg Drive to Yorba Linda Boulevard to pass the church again on its way to the Riverside (91) Freeway.
Los Angeles police will also participate because Cottle served alongside Centanni, who will be honored with a 21-gun salute and perhaps a flyover at the cemetery, Shanahan said.
"It should be quite a tribute to the young man's life,'' Shanahan said.
Centanni joined the Marines right out of high school and aspired to be a police officer like his father.
Attention all military people on here...I lost contact with a good friend of mine and I have not other means of contacting him. Id love your help on finding him for me or maybe contacting him for me. Below is a picture I have. Of the 5 men he is the one in the middle.
Pls message me if you can help me. Anything helps.
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Hi there,
as you may remember I asked few of you why it is important to support the troops. Seeing Fubar had decided to update peoples messages/inbox..I am sorry to inform you that i lost your replies. I did read them though but I had no opportunity to save them.
Would you please be so kind as to tell me again...why you as a service member, active or not, believe it is important to support the troops ?
thank you for taking your time to tell me and again I am sorry.
xoxo
Lady Z
Soldiers who face unexpected parenting hardships and are unable to deploy are supposed to be honorably discharged. Instead they are being slapped with criminal charges.
Soldiers who face unexpected parenting hardships and are unable to deploy are supposed to be honorably discharged. Instead they are being slapped with criminal charges.
In January, U.S. Army officials announced four separate court-martial charges against Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother who missed her deployment to Afghanistan in early November 2009 when her childcare plans for her infant son, Kamani, fell through at the last minute.
Hutchinson was jailed and threatened with a court-martial if she did not agree to deploy to Afghanistan. Kamani was placed into a county foster care system.
Hutchinson, in accordance with the family care plan of the U.S. Army, had been allowed to fly to Oakland, California to leave her son with her mother, Angelique Hughes. However, after a week, Hughes realized she couldn't care for Kamani along with her other duties of caring for a daughter with special needs, her ailing mother, and an ailing sister. She told Hutchinson and her commander, Captain Gassant and the Army granted a Hutchinson an extension so that she could find someone else to care for Kamani. In the meantime, the boy came back to Georgia to be with his mother.
But only a few days before Hutchinson's original deployment date, she was told by the Army she would not get the time extension after all, and would have to deploy despite the fact that her son had nowhere to go. Faced with this choice, Specialist Hutchinson chose not to show up for her plane to Afghanistan. The military arrested her and placed her child in the county foster care system.
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I would also like to thank Giant Food Stores, ABF Freight Systems, Gettysburg Agway and Jacoby Transportation who all provided substantial logistical and/or financial assistance.
On Friday December 4th approximately 75 people showed up at the Giant Store in Gettysburg at 0800 to put stickers on the bows and tie the bows to the wreaths. At 1300 we reassembled at the Gettysburg National Cemetery and placed the wreaths of the gravesites - starting on the section closest to Baltimore Pike. We placed them until we ran out.
The following day, December 5th, my wife - Candi, Corporal Jeremy McNear and I arrived at Quantico National Cemetery at 0700 to meet the ABF driver. We positioned the containers that held the wreaths in a light drizzle. By the time the approximately 150 volunteers arrived - there was a steady downpour of rain that continued until we finished placing the 2,200 wreaths in sections 11 and 12. We could not do Eric's section this year due to underground waterlines being installed. The inclement weather did not at all hamper our efforts or "dampen" the spirits of anyone there. It was a reminder to everyone that our men and women in uniform do not get to choose the weather in which they perform their duties - nor should it slow us down back here on the Home Front in doing what we need to do. It was a great day. I would highly recommend that anyone interested should try and participate next year. I promise that you will not be disappointed.
If we can get the financial support to do so, we would like to place a wreath on EVERY headstone at Gettysburg National Cemetery next year as well as increase the number of wreaths we place at Quantico . We are committed to doing this IF we can raise sufficient funds. We also have the blessing and support of Giant Food Stores and ABF Freight Systems to increase their level of logistical support if necessary.
You can make PAYPAL contributions to scmb@earthlink.net or make checks payable to: SGT MAC Foundation and mail to:
SGT MAC Foundation
c/o Stan Clark
915 Fairview Avenue
Gettysburg, PA 17325
If you would like to help us in attaining this goal, please contact me at 717-337-1728 or scmb@earthlink.net
