Double Flee A

On the fly (meaning I don't want to reformat everything), here's a story from Joel, who writes:

I give you Spc. Thomas Wilson.

This guy has such huge balls that they may throw off the earth's gravitation and hurl us all into the Sun.

Wilson, an airplane mechanic whose unit, the 278th Regimental Combat Team of the Tennessee Army National Guard, is about to drive north into Iraq for a one-year tour of duty, put his finger on a problem that has bedeviled the Pentagon for more than a year. Rarely, though, is it put so bluntly in a public forum.

Spc. Thomas Wilson had asked the defense secretary, "Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armor our vehicles?" Shouts of approval and applause arose from the estimated 2,300 soldiers who had assembled to see Rumsfeld.

Rumsfeld hesitated and asked Wilson to repeat his question.

"We do not have proper armored vehicles to carry with us north," Wilson, 31, of Ringgold, Ga., concluded after asking again.

You go to war with the Army you have," Rumsfeld replied, "not the Army you might want or wish to have."

Guys like Rumsfeld are the Army I have. Guys like Specialist Wilson are the Army I want and wish I had.

http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=2667601

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/1204/08wilson.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4661461,00.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-120804rumsfeld_lat,0,6514552.story?coll=la-home-headlines

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4079201.stm

EDIT, from Joel:
ok so he's from georgia, but still, the guy stood up in front of people and
said things to Donald Rumsfeld that Donald Rumsfeld didn't want to hear.
Here's what usually happens to people who anger Rumsfeld:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1005281,00.html

posted by dale @ 11:52 PM