WTUs

[reed11b]

Found the link...Uproar in WTU

[jkm_101_fso]

Found the link...Uproar in WTU

Mmmm...I'm thinking about letting someone else comment first.

I have feared that WTUs would eventually become a part of the Army welfare system...maybe that was unavoidable. Tough situation. Some people you just can't please. Others probably have legitimate complaints. I don't have the answers.

As "High vis" as these things are, you'd think they would be squared away. I would imagine that most of them probably are.

[120mm]

Reading that article just made my stomach hurt. I could see each and every one of those things really happening, while the Commander continues to give the "happy talk".

On the other hand, I can't really judge the veracity of the claims. Though the idea of combat troops with combat wounds being mixed in with the guy who breaks something every time he moves (how do people like that get IN the Army, anyway?) kind of bugs me. I mean, if you break four separate bones in four separate minor accidents in training, the Army isn't the problem, ya know???

[Cavguy]

Found this Sad Story:

Carson soldier in WTU dies after standoff

WIDEFIELD, Colo. (AP) — A man who died at a Widefield home after an armed standoff with sheriff’s deputies was a Fort Carson soldier assigned to the Warrior Transition Unit.

El Paso County sheriff’s spokeswoman Lari Sevene says 27-year-old Spc. Larry Curtis Applegate died Friday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Deputies responded to the house on a report that a man was firing assault rifles inside.

The gunfire continued for about an hour. When it ended, a SWAT team entered the house and found Applegate dead.

Applegate, of Myrtle Beach, S.C., was a twice-deployed Iraq war veteran awarded the Purple Heart and Army Commendation Medal with Valor. He joined the Army in 2004.