How FUCKED is this?
 

A military unit of 250+ Men and Woman returned from IRAQ home to the Bay Area today.

Over 1000 family members waiting anxiously for over 15 months.. all standing on the sidewalks.

The soldiers disembark six buses (an hour late), then the unit commander ordered all service men and woman to march in front of the families and stand at attention not 5 feet from family members for an HOUR while they gave speeches.

It got so bad that soldiers broke down, kids were crying.. some soldiers broke rank and left.

Fucked up. For god's sake, let them go home!

wow, thats fucked up

totally fucked up :mad

Assholes.......... hugs first - speeches later!!

thats fucking retarded....

l,d have been really pissed ..if l was a family member having to wait....and the soldiers well thier brains must have been tormented to the limit :(

its fucked up but its the army what do u expect

that's really whack for those guys

Discipline I guess. That's the only logically possible answer that could work.

Ohh man, talk about killing a kodak moment!

DUke

tru, but I've seen yellow discipline more humane than that type of discipline.
Whats this world comming too :(

Duke

Enjoy Your R & R...
 

It's not about the speech makers, it's about the people on the front lines.

The only speech that needed to be given was "Troops Dismissed".

Actually, I saw the reunion (thankfully minus the speech) on the news here tonight in the Bay Area - touching stuff.

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That is soo sad.

That's so fucking fucked up.

thats crazy, what da hell are the CO's thinking? :(

some people have no clue...

That's crazy. :(

Could it have been a ploy to make the reunion all that much better looking for the cameras?