12/6/06 6:03 PM
zipstick wrote in topic Article: Serving on the Home Front:
I am livid! Twenty years ago I was required, by regulation, to force a mid-career NCO out of the Army because he was 17 pounds overweight. The Sergeant had been a productive soldier, and a proven combat leader. He was married, and had three children. I fought for more than nine months until all appeals were exhausted. I felt horrible because he was an excellent leader, and an exemplary family man. But I was given to understand that the Army could not begin making exceptions or the entire system would suffer. I look at MSG Minnie Hiller-Cousins and I am sickened. How can this be? She may be a nice person ... but a good representative of our nation's Army??? Her picture in an Army uniform is a travesty. LTC Jerry Guareno ought to be ashamed; our men and women in service of their country deserve to be represented by something or someone that at the least approaches conforming to the Army's regulations. If you are going to praise an organization's member, make sure that individual is not in violation of the organization's minimum standards.J. Carter
