A Duty to Disobey All Unlawful Orders

Alan Jacobson alanjacobson at sbcglobal.net
Tue Mar 18 09:52:26 PST 2003



> >>These are not warrior types--they are the guy from
> the mail
> >>room who fixes trucks or the guidence counselor
> from the high school
> >>whos a Army nurse on the side.
>
> Point of order:
>
> Those "not warrior types" receive the exact same
> training as the
> active duty types, with one weekend a month and 2
> weeks in the summer
> for refresher - so if the reservists are not
> qualified, the active
> duty troops are not qualified much better. Is that
> your contention
> Alan?

We're talking about the general mood of the troops. There is _generally_ a different mindset among reservists and Guardsmen as compared to active duty full time career cadre. I wasn't discussing training or qualifications, I don't know where you got that.


>
> You agree with what, Yoshie? You can offer your
> _qualified_ opinion
> but you cannot corroborate fact, especially as
> poorly presented as
> that anecdote from Alan was.
>

All I was saying was that at Fort Leonard Wood when I went through basic training, we recruits received some instructed in Geneva related issues. I have no reason to believe that my training was unique or differed from what they told any other training company.

Poorly presented? Kiss my ass.

Alan Jacobson



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