~A Veteran~

A veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America, for an amount of "Up to and including my life". That is honor, and there are far too many people in this country who no longer understand it. - Author Unknown

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

ARMY WIVES (Season 2) Report

Part 9 The Continuing Hollywood Saga of Disbelief and Non-Army Wives.......

I made a prediction when Season 2 began. Low and behold it has come to fruition! Imagine that...I was able to detect what the writers would "produce" verses the TRUE lives of Army wives.

Now in part 9 of season 2, the stories (and that is all it is) unfold as most SOAP OPERAS do.

Roxy's husband tries to heal to get back to his unit and finish his tour of duty like any typical soldier. Most soldiers are NOT content being home on medical leave for injuries when their unit is still deployed. However, they are turning Roxy's husband into a DRUG addict--yea, prescription drugs-pain killers. Naturally. I am sure PTSD is still on the menu for this soldier. I have a office pool going on this one. I am already smiling knowing it will come to pass.

Claudia Joy continues to be the Post commanders good wife, but there is that sneaky suspicion she is going to ultimately be involved in something tangled and it will be a messy undoing of some kind. The writers will NOT be able to leave her alone. Something from her past will creep into her life. No doubts.

All seems well in the household for our darling Radio DJ Pamela, and her SPEC OPS husband now that the air is clear with the "hoax" of him being a dual agent type in busting some soldiers in the unit for theft...yea uh huh. However, reporters are now doing personal Bio's on her, and it will soon drudge up her past as a COP...look out, ugliness is on its way. Say for instance the whole thing about her being a surrogate mother....and something about her career as a police officer. Office pool on this one too.

Denise. Well all I can say is CALLED IT! I won that pool. Cha Ching! Denise didn't give into infidelity, however, she did embrace the forbidden kiss of death with the doctor. She also has this inner battle between independence, and being controlled by her overbearing control freak of a husband Frank. Who by the way is on his way home, and will probably turn out to be an abuser. (second office pool running on this one)

He constantly talks about how things are out of control and he needs to put the hammer down and regain the control, and did we mention the word CONTROL again? Yea the writers love that word- C-O-N-T-R-O-L. Kudos to them. They can spell. So Frank being a higher ranking officer gets leave and is on his way home....to find his wife the NURSE giving comfort to the doctor who had a very bad accident after she broke off a final coffee date with him. Uhhh yea.

Frank will go off the deep end. He belittles his son, wont "allow" his wife Denise to have a motorcycle, and gave her grief about getting her nursing degree. Prediction: Denise will sell the motorcycle to "save" her marriage, get beaten up, Claudia Joy will come to her rescue, and so will Roland.

Roland and his wife-Joan, had an emergency with the pregnancy. Well something bad had to happen didn't it?? I mean we cant have a picture perfect pregnancy now can we. No...that would be too LIFE like. The baby may be fine, or born premature. Either way some turmoil will happen. The writers wont leave well enough alone. But I can tell you this....I BET--the officer who wants to replace Roland's wife-Joan, is the HEAD of the drug ring on Base.

Then the final one is Roxy. She is still obsessed with her Hump Bar aka Betty's. She is getting her GED now, and she has financial woe's with running the place. During her trials and tribulations with being a business owner, she has a lot of Permits and inspections to pass and so forth. Eventually two things will happen. Betty's will pass away and the Bar will be her's 100%. Perhaps Betty will have a small stash of funds left to Roxy, but it won't be much.

Next her husband will redeploy and in his drug induced stuper mindset, he will be a KIA. Roxy will end up with the SGLI, which is close to $450,000.00 that will come as a shocking surprise to her in the midst of grief because lets face it, she never pays attention to "military stuff" as she calls it.

But....she will become the "new Betty" who stays right outside of post raising her kids and owning the Bar...forever serving soldiers...it will probably be the episode FINALE or something.

OH! The FINAL KICK IN THE TEETH! If Infidelity is NOT enough for your taste buds, lets add ONE MORE FALSEHOOD to the LONG LIST OF LIES and DEPICTIONS that HOLLYWOOD IDIOTS want to SLING at the common public civilian. ARMY WIVES are weak and often turn to lesbian lovers in time of loneliness and need! Yea, Season 2 part 10..begins THIS little drama laced bunch of CRAP! So the writers think that Army wives have NO backbone, NO morals, NO ethics, and NO ability to ENDURE long periods of faithfulness and do not take PRIDE nor HONOR their soldiers/husbands and absolutely HAVE to have a lover of some sort.....so they will go towards LESBIANS because somehow this will not be as "horrible" as having an affair with a male???

One thing Hollywood and the writers of this program CAN NOT and DO NOT understand is that we learn to ADAPT to the long periods of time apart from our spouses. We have CHILDREN, CAREERS, FAMILY, and FRIENDS that take up 100% of our time and it leaves VERY LITTLE for anything else. When we have the opportunity to email, write letters, send care packages, love letters, or get online with our soldier we TAKE that time or MAKE that time above ALL ELSE.

Yet Hollywood and the writers are so eager to SHOVE HOMOSEXUALITY down the throats of people of this Nation that it is showing up more and more in Television, Music, Movies, and I have even seen it on clothing. I SAY ENOUGH! I will not sit idle by and be a silent minority! IT IS NOT OK! IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE, and IT IS NOT MAINSTREAM!
It is also NOT PART OF MILITARY LIFE! So do not think for a moment that it will be an accepted "lifestyle" in the MILITARY! WRONG! It puts peoples lives at risk and danger, PERIOD.



Still...I watch this only to report the MISCONCEPTIONS of this over dramatised EVENING LIFETIME SOAP OPERA for what it is. It in NO WAY depicts the lives of TRUE ARMY wives.

OBAMA FAKING HIS WAY TO THE TOP!

THIS IS THE BEST ASSORTMENT OF OBAMA CLIPS PUT TOGETHER TO DESCRIBE AND SHOW WHO OBAMA IS, AND HOW HE CAPTIVATES HIS AUDIENCE WITH EMPTINESS. OH IT IS CERTAINLY A "CHANGE" FROM THE TYPICAL CAMPAIGN. ITS A COMICAL CAMPAIGN WHEN HE HAS NO CUE CARDS AND BEGINS STUTTERING HIS WAY THROUGH A SIMPLE ANALOGY OR THOUGHT AND LOSES TRACK OF WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO SAY! JUST TWO SENTENCES---REALLY HE CANT KEEP TRACK OF TWO SIMPLE SENTENCES AND FOCUS ON A SUBJECT WITHOUT A CUE CARD OR SOMEONE READING TO HIM IN A EAR PIECE WITH DICTATION. NOTICE WHEN HE SAYS "I CANT HEAR MYSELF"--HE MEANS HE CANT HEAR THE PERSON SPEAKING TO HIM THROUGH HIS PROMPTER....HA HA HA! FAKER!

JUST FAKE IT OBAMA. YOU CANT EVEN GET THAT RIGHT.

GENERATION KILL SERIES REPORT PART 3 & 4

As the HBO series continues in Part 3 & 4---

In part 3 it became very apparent that RECON 1 has Command problems. Command is less than effective and simply trying to earn bars and stars more than concerned for the unit it leads.
Command-the LT COL aka Godfather constantly looks for "missions" that get him brownie points with the General, and set his unit apart from the rest. Yea, real stellar leadership there Godfather. He sends the Recon marines place to place constantly MISSING opportunities literally LAID AT HIS FEET to ENGAGE. Locals with information on the Republican Guard locations within the villages and munitions stashes were offered several times. Often times locals with injured children or towns people would come for help. This would give the RECON marines opportunities to extend kindness right from the beginning of the War on Terrorism and establish aid to locals. Yet, GODFATHER wants none of this and changes directions and presses the Marine unit further to take an empty airfield instead, to get there before an airforce unit--like a game of tag or a lame football goal score.

The soldiers have every desire to get involved and DO THEIR JOB that they have been trained to do. Regardless that Command LOST THE BATALLION COLORS because of INCOMPETANCE in that rush to take the airfield. Questioning of orders, or desention in the ranks is not the issue, what is the issue that the marines recognize POOR leadership because they have been TRAINED to recognize it, and they understand that if you can NOT perform your job, you should MAN UP and STEP DOWN. So moral is decreasing in small increments...yet these soldiers keep things in perspective because they are MARINES...and they press forward knowing that eventually things will rotate around and they will have to jump up and do their job.

Now in part 4, the Recon Bravo Team, Lt. Fick is keeping his head and keeping his team organized by dealing with his own issues without bringing his men into it. Regardless that they want to offer their services in the way of standing up for him, he is commanding them to stand down-he will handle it.

Capt America was confronted, and got rid of the AK-47's. Yet something suggests that he needs to step down from command because he is still a loose cannon and will get his men hurt with stupid mistakes and his anxiety. He is UNFIT to lead.

Scouts from Alpha Co are continually messing up, mistaking a village for Armor and even when it is corrected, they call in an airstrike anyway.

Iceman still remains a stellar commander. The sniper team remains level headed and squared away.

The CO for Bravo Co needs to be removed ASAP. That speech about the MRE's being taken by the "enemy" is foolish and it is obvious that there is no shred of "marine" in that soldier. No leadership ability, and it astounds me how he made it up the food chain to his current position. A huge mystery actually. There is no amount of "knowing people" or favors that could be called in to get him to Capt. None. How his ignorance escapes highers is an anomolly.

The mission for a missing captured marine from a supply unit who was tortured and crucified---not recovered and abandoned....Why? Why was that mission scrubed and averted into something else?

Overall, the series is interesting. I keep in mind though, that there are two sides to every story, and this story was written by a REPORTER, NOT a military soldier. So it has its FLUFF.

It would be beneficial to see the REAL SOLDIER perspective on what happened with RECON 1 in 2003. A reporter always has a MSM slant and elaboration of misunderstanding the mindset of the military when they write. And there is always a lot of FLUFF.

Next week---part 5. Lets hope this series never mocks--or belittles our brave heroes--our fabulous marines. They are second to none.