[SATLUG] Brad Knowles insults the military

[Brad Knowles]

In the six years I worked at the Pentagon, I personally heard plenty  
of cases where senior enlisted or officers felt that they were not  
able to vote for the person of their choice, usually because that  
candidate was out of favour with the then-current administration.

Did they get explicit orders to vote one way or the other? Not so far  
as I know. However, many times off-hand comments belie the true nature  
of the intentions of the commanding officers.

If you are in a given unit or office, and you know who are in one  
party or the other, and every single person in a given party gets  
raises, promotions, etc... and no one in the other party gets anything  
like this, what do you honestly think your conclusion will be?

-- 
Brad Knowles <brad at shub-Internet.org>

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On Aug 5, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Thomas King  
<kingttx at tomslinux.homelinux.org> wrote:

>> Just FYI on this Robert,    there are regulations on this and  
>> officers are
>> not allowed to influence in any way a troops vote.   In the past I've
>> experienced officers that expounded on a specific cantidate,  
>> however that
>> was back in Nam.. yes I'ma Nam Vet..   I asked my son in law about  
>> it in
>> Iraq, and he says in his instance no one from the officers corps  
>> has made
>> any comments one way or another, OUTSIDE OF ENCOURAGING THE TROOPS  
>> TO VOTE,
>> not for a specific cantidate just to vote..
>
> In my four years (Ft. Drum, Haiti, and Korea), I never was  
> influenced on who to
> vote for. I must have missed something although I did pretty much  
> ignore most of
> his rantings.
> -- 
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