Iraq Vet? Take the Bus
by ilona
Mon Aug 28, 2006 at 08:56:52 PM EDT
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after a year in Iraq, huh?150 soldiers in the Massachusetts-based 220th Transportation Company , 94th Regional Readiness Command , arrived at Camp Atterbury in Indiana just after midnight Friday for demobilization, they were told they would have to take the bus home -- an 18- to 20-hour ride. Furious families of the soldiers called the office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy , a Massachusetts Democrat and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. ...
The senator dashed off a letter to Secretary of the Army Francis J. Harvey , pointing out that the Indianapolis International Airport was 38 miles from Camp Atterbury. ``With air service such a viable option, I don't believe putting these soldiers on buses for an extended overnight ride is the most appropriate way for the US Army to show its gratitude for their considerable sacrifices," Kennedy wrote.
Why were they told they'd have to hitch a ride on a bus to get home? >>>
Why were they told they'd have to hitch a ride on a bus to get home?
[Kennedy] said the soldiers were told there was not enough money to pay for their air travel home. ``This is a demobilization," he said. ``They're on their way home, they served in Iraq and to be told . . . there are not enough resources in the Defense Department budget to treat people first-class is indefensible, unwarranted, and outrageous."
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