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Showing posts with label fort lewis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fort lewis. Show all posts

Monday, August 03, 2009

no war peace no more!

far be it for the united states to actually WANT peace

it's sort of like oj looking for the real murderer. the army looking for terrorists IN ALL THE FUCKING WRONG PLACES

(NOTE: if groups are violent or break the law in a means other than non violent protest, then i might not have issues with infiltration)


Army Looking Into Monitoring of Protest Groups

SEATTLE — The Army says it has opened an inquiry into a claim that one of its employees spent more than two years infiltrating antiwar groups active near one of the nation’s largest military bases. The groups say the employee infiltrated their activities under an assumed name and gained access to their plans as well as names and e-mail addresses of some members.

The man, John J. Towery, a civilian employee at Fort Lewis, south of Tacoma, Wash., works as a criminal intelligence analyst for the post’s Force Protection Division, say officials at Fort Lewis, the nation’s third largest Army post.

The Army would not disclose the nature of the investigation or address the claim that Mr. Towery had shared information about civilians. It said Mr. Towery was not available for an interview...........

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

i'm sorry

you're just not important enough for us to honor you as an individual. sure you gave your life but so effing what?

On Army Base, a Plea to Give Each Death Its Due

By WILLIAM YARDLEY
FORT LEWIS, Wash. — Twenty soldiers deployed to Iraq from this Army base were killed in May, a monthly high. That same month, the base announced a change in how it would honor its dead: instead of units holding services after each death, they would be held collectively once a month.
The anger and hurt were immediate. Soldiers’ families and veterans protested the change as cold and logistics-driven. Critics online said the military was trying to repress bad news about deaths. By mid-June, the base had delayed the plan.
[Its commander, Lt. Gen. Charles H. Jacoby, was expected to decide Wednesday whether to go through with it.]
“If I lost my husband at the beginning of the month, what do you do, wait until the end of the month?” asked Toni Shanyfelt, who said her husband was serving one of multiple tours in Iraq. “I don’t know if it’s more convenient for them, or what, but that’s insane.”...........