Everybody gave a thumbs-up on that, |
Sure, anytime a division commander reports C-4, we are concerned. We'll see what corrections need to be made. |
That NCO has now been removed from his position, but Maj. Gen. Robert Clark, who commanded Fort Campbell and has now been promoted, was absolved of any blame, |
The price for achieving that kind of readiness in our early deploying units has been to accept risk elsewhere in the force. |
We have diverted soldiers from other organizations to fill our high-priority, war-fighting formations, ... Second, we have, for years, mortgaged our future readiness -- this modernization effort -- in order to assure that our soldiers had, in the near-term, what it takes to fight and win decisively. |
We're talking about post-hostilities control over a piece of geography that's fairly significant, with the kinds of ethnic tensions that could lead to other problems, |