Clemency for Chief Warrant Officer Darrell Birt, Major Cathy Kaus, and Soldiers of the 656th Transportation Company
Six Ohio-based reservists were court-martialed for taking Army vehicles abandoned in Kuwait by other units so they could carry out their own unit's mission to Iraq.Members of the 656th Transportation... continue reading »
"This is a ridiculous miscarriage of justice. We don't treat our military this way. This was done because their actions drew attention to this administrations mistreatment of our military and their needs."
"This is no way to fight a war"
"Don't we have more important things to worry about???? Let them go! Quit wasting precious time persecuting people who do their jobs!!"
"This lady was trying to get the job done. She did not take supplies for her personal benefit but to help her soldiers. We ask so much of our soldiers. Let us support them."
"She & her men improvised to get the job done !"
"This Company was given a mission and it compleated it.They did not give up they used their training and resourcefulness to complete a mission they were sent on with compromised vehicles.This is what they are trained for.They should be rewarded not punishe"
"If they are putting their lives in danger to defend our country the least they deserve is to be well equipted to carry out a mission. They were just making good use of gear that was abandoned they deserve to be awarded not punished they were risking their"
"How many of our troops were saved by the fuel that was transported in the abandoned trucks that Cheif Warrant Officer Birt, and Major Kaus were smart enough to fix and use, not steal?! The military used to give awards for quick thinking!"
"How can one steal from his/her own army? It's not possible. Major Cathy Kaus may have been in a different troop, but there is only 1 U. S. Army, the 1 U.S. Army should be working together, not separate. If she had to "borrow" another troops machine to get"
"Former U.S. Navy"
"Need to right this wrong!"
"how stupid has this country become, they were using discarded equipment for military use, we should have been attempting to recover these parts anyway, they should be rewarded for their actions if for nothing more than saving the taxpayers money."
"VIETNAM VET, SILVER STAR"
"please do the right thing"
"give them honorable discharges!"
"They are courtmartialed for the exact same things some of the first awards of the first Gulf War were given. The battalion commander appears to be a Regular Army soldier who sees the RC as expendable. This entire affair reflects poorly on the Army and the"
