In my opinion, any and all counseling involving SSG NORRIS should have been done by a higher ranking NCO or a Commissioned Officer, not by his Platoon Sergeant OF EQUAL RANK. I feel such counseling should have been done by either the First Sergeant, Platoon Leader, Executive Officer or ...
Tabby Gets Military Rank After Iraq Tour
At the time of the attack I had already been in the military for over 20 years and I had actually taken a reduction in rank to transfer from the Army, where I was a Major in the reserves, to the Navy to serve on active duty. In those previous 20 years I had served overseas during...
in which the US and its allies routed the Iraqi military; and the invasion of Iraq (2003). If I learned anything from those experiences it is that wars are easier to start than to finish.
Iraq has had close but complex ties with its large eastern neighbour, whose sway among Iraqi political and military actors grew vastly after the US-led invasion of 2003. The new reports served to confirm the sentiment of protesters across Baghdad and the Shiite-majority south who...
military response for 2020 than in any other Preventive Priorities Survey (PPS) from the last eleven years,” notes Paul Stares, CPA director and senior fellow for conflict prevention.“Of the thirty conflicts in this year’s survey, only two were judged as having a low ...
Valuable though these high-level insights can be, they frequently exclude the voices of rank-and-file US military members silenced by legal restriction or military custom even though their perspectives would add much to the debate. Of course, the silence is not complete; fine battiefield ...
October 21, 2004 -Is sentenced to eight years in prison and also sentenced to a forfeiture of pay, a dishonorable discharge and a reduction in rank to private. October 1, 2007 -Is paroled after serving approximately three years in a military prison. ...