Posted on 02/28/2007 3:24:41 PM PST by Kaslin
Gannett puplications can not be posted as per agreement.
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I haven't heard a single Reed-resident say otherwise on any other media outlet...so at this point...the story is likely to be 90 percent true. Those guys affected by the inspection rule....likely are the ones with not-so-severe wounds. I can't see how they could come around to some dude's bunk whose lost a leg or arm...and play this hokey game. And the inspectors? Can you put yourself into this position...having to mess with a guy who just came out of a combat zone? I spent 22 years in the military and I personally couldn't stand there and act like an inspector around a bunch of hero's like this. This would be like some members of the "300" at the battle of Thermopylae...surviving...and making their way back to Sparta and having some political flunky there treat them as simple foot soldiers when they were the hero's of the battle. King Leonidas would have pulled his sword from his side and put the tip to the inspector and asked if he felt the room was "of a fine nature for a warrior and hero to lay upon and have his wounds attended to". We might want to ask of the Reed leadership...how they'd like to treat hero's of a Republic and see if they understand the basis of the question.
:-( That's terrible. I'm glad your husband survived!
I hope you weren't the nurse/captain I had a discussion with as to why he wasn't getting pennicillen for the pneumonia (bacterial)instead of Koolaid! Of course, I was young and foolish then....a newlywed more concerned about my husband than Army rules and regulations!
"I hope you weren't the nurse/captain I had a discussion with as to why he wasn't getting pennicillen for the pneumonia (bacterial)instead of Koolaid!"
I just noticed this thread tonight. When my husband was in OCS in 1968, I worked as an RN at the hospital at Ft. Benning. The head nurse was a captain. When a Vietnam injured patient asked me to get him a pitcher of water, I did....no problem. The captain reprimanded me...she said that as long as a patient had one leg to hop on, they get their own water....true story. Pretty sad.
And at Ft. Dix hospital, in 1979, my 9 year old daughter was admitted with a collapsed lung. She was to have a respiratory therapist come in two or three times a day to administer treatments with an IPPB machine. I can't remember how long I waited before I complained that no one ever showed up to give her a treatment. I was furious, so I asked them to bring me a machine and show me how to use it, which they did. The doctor was amazed how quickly she recovered. (Ha! I wonder why.)
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