Afghanistan Today, the GWOT Hotspot (The Afghanistan Scandal?) 8-27-13-Tue.

It is hard for me to believe what is going on in today’s Marine Corps. Good combat Marines, both officers and enlisted face trials, court of inquiry, investigations, and bad fitness reports for trying to win a war. Those risk adverse are often promoted or get glowing fitness reports. Now they want to put women Marines in the infantry and Recon. I wonder if they will disband the Marine Special Forces (MARSOC) after the Afghanistan War ends on 31 Dec. 2014,  like the Raiders were disbanded after WWII? I am losing respect for the Marine Corps at this rate. That’s hard to do, as I am a strong civilian supporter of the Marine Corps. Links from around the GWOT:

1.) Marine officer gets bad fitness report for trying to report on possible inside attack in Afghanistan. Then, it happens, and 3 Marines are killed. See the story for complete details. Link:

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/article/20130825/NEWS/308250008/Marine-who-warned-insider-attack-threat-facing-career-s-end