change is good?

Wow, moving sucks - but I'm glad to be away from BACH - evil place I wouldn't wish on my enemies.

Anyway, getting back on-line again and back to the fight for troops' medical care. It's still scary to know that troops are falling through administrative cracks - and bureaucratic "solutions" tend to aggravate problems, not alleviate them.

The Army's budget is hurting bad and one need look no further than the evolution of the motto over the years. "Be all you can be" was fine. The only problem was the message of "get into the army so we can start preparing you for a better life on the outside." Yeah, that didn't work so good. The answer: "An Army of one." On wheel of fortune players have to buy vowels - this slogan begs the question: couldn't the army afford a verb? The one man army concept was (thankfully) short-lived - we're not a mass of individuals, we're a team - at least we're supposed to be. But now, "Army strong"??? what kind of illiterate idiots are we looking for? This makes no sense at all? The ad campaign finally has the image right, but who wants to join the knuckle-dragging, grunting, groaning dolts that approved Army strong? And, after seeing some of the spaghetti-armed or doghnut-bellied (take your pick) new recruits, A.S. is not a good description. I'd want to be better than the current A.S.

I'm not going to waste anymore time on a dim-witted slogan, perhaps it was a ploy to distract everyone from the real problems in the ranks - neglect, incompetence, and cover-ups.