[speekinout]

Soldiers defend your right to free speech, but they DO NOT have the same civil rights as Dumb Ass reporters with an agenda. They are subject to the UCMJ because loose lips get their fellow soldiers and Marines killed.

It seems to me that most of the issues (like this one) have been with the Nat'l Guard and not with career soldiers.
Abu Graib, the desertion of one unit, etc. have all been Nat'l Guard. If there is even one incident involving career soldiers, I need to be reminded of it.

[heylady]

"It seems to me that most of the issues (like this one) have been with the Nat'l Guard and not with career soldiers. "

I have also noticed this. My son,career soldier, went from an Abrams to a Bradley, to a Humvee and I never heard him complain once. When the Mother of the guardsman that posed the questioned was interviewed she said how proud she was of her son. Funny I would have been embarassed. Then again my son wouldn't have been duped by an ambitious reporter.