I'll take decisions that confuse me for a $100 Alex

**Schmedlap** · 11-18-2008

We are a professional Army, and professional units don't conceal their identity by wearing masks," Lt. Col. Steve Stover, a U.S. military spokesman.

The mindset embodied in that message - the belief that you can just declare something to be "what a professional force does" and then have others embrace it due to your flawless reasoning - never ceased to mystify me. Without any explanation as to why such a claim is valid, or inquiry into whether it is true, or thought as to whether it makes any sense, it is just supposed to be accepted and become standard procedure.

**jkm_101_fso** · 11-18-2008

I'm sorry, but I cannot get over this. It is insane.

I was responsible for getting an interpreter killed in Iraq, I have to do something about this.

If anyone knows or can find out what G.O. is responsible for this decision, please let me know. I'm going to make some calls on my end.

I will find out who is responsible for this and I will contact them personally. Maybe it won’t help anything. But I can't sit idly by and watch innocent Iraqis get killed or lose their jobs.

I'm starting with LTC Stover. I realize he is probably not the one who made the call, but he knows who did. I am going to contact him on AKO. I recommend those that can, should as well.

Below is a picture of Adwan Taher and I on patrol. I took him on a mission near his village; a big mistake on my part. His identity was compromised by a local thug and he was shot to death in front of his family a week later.

**Hacksaw** · 11-18-2008

Air Assault - go get em!

**Ski** · 11-19-2008

In a war full of outrageous stupidity from start to the current state of affairs, I do believe this may be the dumbest and most counterproductive decision I've seen yet.

Way to go boys. Be proud of the fact you just condemned hundreds if not thousands of men and women to death.

**Jedburgh** · 11-19-2008

Originally Posted by Ski

In a war full of outrageous stupidity from start to the current state of affairs, I do believe this may be the dumbest and most counterproductive decision I've seen yet.

No, the worst ones were made early on.