In a story that is one more example of the incredible incompetence of our Secretary of Defense, the Boston Globe reports today:
“For at least a year, the soldiers had survived one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: driving trucks on the violent roads of Iraq for the US Army. Half the company had been at it nearly two years.
But when the 150 soldiers in the Massachusetts-based 220th Transportation Company, 94th Regional Readiness Command, arrived at Camp Atterbury in Indiana just after midnight Friday for demobilization, they were told they would have to take the bus home — an 18- to 20-hour ride.”
Family members’ complaints led Senator Kennedy to intervene and the Defense Dept. has indicated that they would charter a plane. The lack of respect shown to the troops is symptomatic of an administration unable to do the simplest things right. Simply bizarre.
Good for the Globe for reporting it.