Military Veterans have enough to deal with when rotating back to civilian life, after their tours fighting against people who are not our enemy.  The unfortunate thing is, while our troops are away fighting and dying for a pack of admitted lies by the infiltrators in our government, those same infiltrators have been busy tearing the homeland apart at the seems. 

Unemployment is at an all time high in these united states, and returning Vets can look forward to an uphill battle finding employment.  Nearly 500,000 people per month lost their jobs last year, and the crooks who are in control gave even more money to the swindlers that broke the bank. With reported unemployment rates at 16%+, and actual rates nearing 25%, America is on the verge of a collapse like has never been seen before.

Things are not going to get better until people realize the enemy is not some radical Muslims in the middle east.  The enemy is within, and it’s now or never that we fix it.  Get our Basic Training manual, pass it out to friends and family.  Educate as many people as you can, and help us get more Military and Law Enforcement people on board with ROK.  What we are experiencing is an engineered catastrophe, but the catastrophe part hasn’t hit home yet.  Returning Veterans who find their home in ruins, need answers as to who and why.  We have those answers.

Source: Yahoo
Date: 12MAR10

WASHINGTON – The unemployment rate last year for young Iraq and Afghanistan veterans hit 21.1 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, reflecting a tough obstacle combat veterans face as they make the transition home from war.

The number was well above the 16.6 percent jobless rate for non-veterans of the same ages, 18 to 24.

As of last year, 1.9 million veterans had deployed for the wars since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Some have struggled with mental health problems, addictions, and homelessness as they return home. Difficulty finding work can make the adjustment that much harder.

The just-released rate for young veterans was significantly higher than the unemployment rate of young veterans in that age group of 14.1 percent in 2008.

Many of the unemployed are members of the Guard and Reserves who have deployed multiple times, said Joseph Sharpe, director of the economic division at the American Legion. Sharpe said some come home to find their jobs have been eliminated because the company has downsized. Other companies may not want to hire someone who could deploy again or will have medical appointments because of war-related health problems, he said.

“It’s a horrible environment because if you’re a reservist and you’re being deployed two or three times in a five-year period, you know you’re less competitive,” Sharpe said. “Many companies that are already hurting are reluctant to hire you and time kind of moves on once you’re deployed.”

One veteran looking for work is Dario DiBattista, 26, of Abingdon, Md., a graduate student who did two tours in Iraq in the Marine Reserves with a civil affairs unit. He said he’s found that a lot of military skills don’t readily transfer into the workplace, and in many cases, there aren’t jobs to apply for even if companies want to hire veterans.

“If you don’t have a strong family support system … it’s hard to get over the hump to make the decision of where you’re going to live, what you do for work, where you’re going to go to school, if you can even qualify to get into school,” DiBattista said.

Justin Wilcox, a 30-year-old Iraq veteran who is participating in a work-study program at a vet center operated by the Veterans Affairs Department in Charleston, W.Va., said he hasn’t just had problems finding jobs, but keeping them. He’s done work as a coal miner, as a salesman selling drill bits and in other positions, but he said mental health problems stemming from the war with side effects such as anger and difficulty concentrating have made it difficult.

There’s a lack of understanding about the needs some veterans have, said Wilcox, who is studying to become a teacher.

“Basically, it’s been a real hard time for me. Because when I do get a job, it’s not a real high paying job,” Wilcox said. “I have a difficult time relating to people and … one job that I had that paid really good, I couldn’t comprehend what I was supposed to do and how I was supposed to do it.”

For veterans of all ages from the recent wars, the unemployment rate in 2009 was 10.2 percent. Historically, younger veterans have had more difficulty than their older counterparts finding a job because they often have less training and job experience. Some joined the military right out of high school.

Lisa Rosser, an Army veteran and company owner who sits on the advisory board of the Call of Duty Endowment that funds projects focused on veterans employment issues, said she encourages veterans to emphasize to prospective employers what they learned about managing people in a stressful combat environment.

“If they talk about their general leadership skills and their ability to supervise and to manage people, especially at a very young age, that is a good sell … because the average 24-year-old and 27-year-old in the military has similar supervisory and managerial experience as someone in their 30s on the civilian side,” Rosser said.

One possible solution is to make it easier for veterans to transfer certifications they have for jobs they did in the military into the civilian workforce, Sharpe said.

The Labor and Veterans Affairs departments have a variety of programs addressing the problem, including one that educates employers about how to work with veterans with special needs. The hope is that another program, the Post-9/11 GI Bill rolled out last year, will be particularly effective. Under it, $78 billion is expected to be paid out in education benefits over the next decade for veterans of the recent wars to attend school.

The national unemployment rate last year was 9.3 percent, the highest since 1983.

This is your enemy, disguising itself as one of you. Are you smart enough to understand the ruse or are you going to keep believing this fool is your friend? Don't be so gullible.

You want the truth about “Oath Keepers” and Stewart Rhodes?  First, you should read our Basic Training manual to understand who the enemy is.  Next, head over to HERE and HERE and read the real story about this subversive, and it will all start to make sense.  Those of you supporting this worthless piece of garbage are supporting your own demise.  I don’t care how much you hate the idea of the truth, it doesn’t change the truth.  Get used to it, and get with the program.

If you still refuse to accept the truth, you can only be one of two things.  Either you are a total moron, or you are one of the enemy.  These are the only exceptions to the equation.  All other will quickly realize that this group of “gate keepers” and Stewart Rhodes are selling you down the river.  This isn’t rocket science.  Go see for yourself, but don’t cry to us when you finally realize your country is screwed and all the while you were supporting the people responsible for it.

Our training manual has been banned by Lulu Self Publishing, because the enemy owns all the media and publishing companies. Even worse, the book is extremely damaging to their network. Why else would Lulu attempt to stifle free speech? Download it and find out.

That’s right. Our Basic Training Manual is SO GOOD, that Lulu Self Publishing had to ban the book.  From here on out, you’ll be able to download it FREE directly from our servers.  We will NOT stop bringing this information to people.  In fact, Lulu’s ban of our manual proves that it’s damaging, and needs to be in more people’s hands.  CLICK HERE to download it now.

There is no such thing as free speech, especially when you’re quoting people and letting their own words do the damage.  Get the manual now and find out why. Thanks to all of our supporters who bought the hard cover version, but it will no longer be available, so hold tight to the copies you do have, as they will certainly become a collector’s item now.

As suicide rates unfortunately increase amongst returning U.S. Veterans, it’s high time people start reaching out to these people to help them re-adjust to the world here at home. Sad as it is, many of them return to the realization that our nation is falling apart, being devoured by a parasite from within. Many will come home to find that the American people no longer support the wars, and the facts bear out that they were indeed started over a bunch of lies. These people will have watched their friends fight, with some of them suffering and dying, only to come home and realize that the same enemy who started the wars, is wrecking our homeland.

There is no nice way to say these things. America is in deep trouble, and the best way to honor our troops is to first, bring them home. Second, bring them to Real Oath Keepers where they can learn the whole story and finally understand where it all went wrong. If we do not deal with these usurpers, more of our people will die dominating our infiltrator’s enemies for them. Many more will come home and commit suicide, and many will come home severely injured or in a box.

This is not acceptable to anyone with a conscience. Show your support for the troops by helping them identify the real enemy. Help them unite with us to rid ourselves of these murderous traitors once and for all, but that can’t happen until these historical usurpers are finally brought to light. Our Basic Training manual will more than fulfill this purpose.

We are Real Oath Keepers, because we are the ONLY ONES to identify and face up to the real problem. Those other guys wouldn’t dare point out what we do. They are like this Shinseki creep, they don’t care about you, or any of us for that matter. Help us save our Soldiers and Veterans by teaching them the truth, and giving them a chance to make up for the pain the enemy has caused us all.

Source: News4Jax
Date: 11JAN10

WASHINGTON — Home from war and out of the military, young male veterans appear to be committing suicide at a higher rate.

The Veterans Affairs Department said Monday that preliminary data reflects that the suicide rate among 18- to 29-year-old male veterans has increased significantly. It said the rate went up 26 percent from 2005 to 2007. VA officials said they assume that most of the veterans in this age group served in Iraq or Afghanistan.

If there is a bright spot in the data, it’s that in 2007 veterans in the group who used VA health care were less likely to commit suicide than those who did not. That’s a change from 2005.

In recent years, the VA has hired thousands of new mental health professionals and established a suicide hot line credited with “rescues” of nearly 6,000 veterans and military members in distress.

The military has also struggled with an increase in suicides, with the Army seeing a record number last year. While the military frequently releases such data, it has been more difficult to track suicide information on veterans once they’ve left active duty.

The VA calculated the numbers using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers from 16 states. In 2005, the rate per 100,000 veterans among men ages 18-29 was 44.99, compared with 56.77 in 2007, the VA said. It did not release data for other population groups.

At a suicide prevention conference on Monday in Washington, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki said his agency needs to do a better job of understanding what led to each suicide. He said he’d also like to see more stringent protocol put into place at VA facilities about how to handle a potentially suicidal veteran, similar to what’s done with someone who’s having a heart attack.

He noted that of the more than 30,000 suicides each year in America, about 20 percent are committed by veterans.

“Why do we know so much about suicides but still know so little about how to prevent them?” Shinseki said. “Simple question, but we continue to be challenged.”

We have decided, in the interest of reaching as many people as possible with our message, to make the .pdf version of our Basic Training Manual FREE to download. We have taken quite a soft approach at defining what problems face America and our people, but we can see already that more needs to be done. With false front like “Oath Keepers”, whom are rightly referred to here as “Gate Keepers”, withholding the truth from our Armed Forces and Law Enforcement personnel, we took the initiative to stir the pot and disrupt their fallacious endeavors by creating ROK. Due to the fact that the information contained in our training manual is exactly what this other group is hiding, we have decided to make that information free to everyone who seeks it.

The hard cover edition of our training manual is still available for purchase only. Since we don’t do the printing ourselves, there is no way to avoid this, but there is no substitute for having a hard copy in your hands that you can share with others. Nothing is better than actually owning a copy of our manual that you can use to teach people around you, and use as a reference. Something about putting a real book into people’s hands, makes a big difference in the way they perceive the information. Needless to say, you still NEED the hard cover version of our manual to effectively spread the message contained within. Digital format just doesn’t have the same impact.

We do ask that those who appreciate the information, and the work put together by ROK that you hit our Donate Page and help further our mission. The front lines will falter without a strong supply line. No push into enemy territory will go very far if our lines of supply are cut. Without your help to push this message further, our front lines are no longer leading the charge, they will be faltering and in retreat. So, it is up to YOU to help out and make a difference. We’ve done more than our fair share, so step up and pitch in today.

Click HERE to visit Lulu and get your copy of the manual today. If you’d like to download it for FREE, you may do so by clicking the link that says “Also available as a download“. Get your equipment in order and mount up revolutionaries, patriots, and Soldiers. It’s time to JOIN THE FIGHT!

UPDATE:

The book has been banned by Lulu Publishing, because the enemy can’t have something this damaging floating around.  You’ll have to CLICK HERE to download it from our servers, because it’s doubtful anyone else will publish the book.  There’s a good reason they banned it….find out who “they” are and why “they” banned it by downloading it now.

Have a look at the video below, where the new gay Mayor of Houston makes a mockery of the Oath of Office in front of thousands of people. The oath ceremony was to be held behind closed doors, but outrage from people all across the nation changed their plans at the last minute. Rather than take the oath behind closed doors, this gay Mayor took an oath that completely ignores the Constitution of these united states.

Homesexuality has long since been pushed on our people by these usurpers, and now we have more openly gay traitors who refuse to take proper oaths holding office. Listen for yourself, and see how the official oath to uphold the Constitution is ignored. Why would they attempt to make it a secret process held behind closed doors, and why no mention of the Constitution?

Next, take a look at the article below about Obama’s own folly with the traditional oath. Chief Justice John Roberts (purposely) fumbled the oath by switching words around during Obama’s ceremony. For those who understand semantics, the re-ordering of the words actually infers that Obama will “execute the office of the President”; meaning it will no longer exist, rather than meaning he will uphold his duties to said office.

Fear not though, for Obama took a second oath behind closed doors and you can rest assured that this correction to his oath was no better than the first. Why else would it need to be taken in secret? See if you can understand for yourself what a slight change in the wording really means.

Public officials continue to make a mockery of their Oath of Office, and the trend seems to be gaining ground. It’s no question why ROK members do not take an oath to the Constitution, but to our people. However, you should be very wary when these high level officials start dumping all over the one thing most Americans still support, the Constitution.

ROK members know this document was designed with purposeful flaws to allow these usurpers to gain control of our country, and this is why we don’t support it. The problem is, when these officials start to ignore the last few protections it still offers us, you are well on your way to communism in America, and it should not be tolerated.

Join us, and take an oath that matters. An oath to our people. We know that nations only exist in the minds of the people, and it’s the people who make up the body of any nation. Our oath is visible to the public for a reason, because it’s the public that we support. ROK intends to remove the infiltrators who have destroyed our once great nation and restore it to a level of glory never known before under the usurped idealism of yesterday. These traitors don’t care about our people, but we do. We are the people, and the people are us. United we will stand…

Video Source: BrightCove
Date: 05JAN09

Source: Chicago Tribune
Date: 20JAN09

WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts swore in Barack Obama as president of the United States on Tuesday with a slight stumble over the wording of the oath of office, a stumble Obama repeated.

Separated by a Bible used by Abraham Lincoln at his first inaugural, Roberts asked Obama: “Are you prepared to take the oath, senator?”

The former Illinois senator indicated he was, and Roberts started reciting — and Obama repeating — the 35-word oath that is prescribed by the Constitution.

But at one point, Obama paused abruptly after Roberts reversed several words in the oath.

The oath includes the phrase “that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States” but Roberts didn’t say “faithfully” until after saying “president of the United States.”

Obama apparently realized that something was out of order.

Roberts then repeated the phrase correctly, putting “faithfully” in the right place after execute: “faithfully the office of president of the United States.”

But Obama instead repeated Roberts’ original, incorrect version: “… the office of president of the United States faithfully.”

Later, as they shook hands before a lunch in the Capitol, Roberts chatted briefly with Obama and appeared to say the mistake was his fault, not Obama’s.

Despite the awkward moment, the swearing in was the first of what could be many important interactions between two men who rose to their positions of power quickly and who have some background similarities, but whose politics differ.

The affable Roberts and his conservative-leaning Supreme Court could have much to say in the years to come about Obama’s most important policy choices.

Roberts is the youngest chief justice in more than 200 years. He easily could still be in his role a quarter century from now, long after Obama has left office.

He and Obama are similar in many ways. Both are late Baby Boomers. Roberts is 53, Obama 47. And both got their law degrees from Harvard and made rapid ascents to power. But their politics diverge sharply. Roberts was an official in Republican administrations before becoming an appeals court judge and then chief justice.

Obama was one of 22 Senate Democrats to vote against Roberts’ confirmation to the Supreme Court in 2005 — the first time a Supreme Court justice has sworn in a president who voted against him.

America troops continue to die at ever increasing rates in Afghanistan, the temporary new front for this false “war on terror”. The truth is, that Americans are being terrorized by infiltrators and usurpers all of the same stripe, not the false front al-qaida. Our traitorous “officials” are using terror to keep Americans supporting illegal wars of attrition against innocent peoples, for the gains of a number of criminals who have hijacked America.

Troop deaths have doubled recently, and with the ramp up of 30,000 more troops to the Middle East, it will only get worse. Unfortunately, there will be NO draw down of troops in 18 months, as it will take this long to get most of them in place. Not to mention the inconvenient fact that America can now look forward to fighting on yet another front in Yemen. America is being played like a stooge into the position of the bad guy for the start of WWIII. When she is all used up, and has nothing left to offer, America will be destroyed just like Germany was after WWII, and by the same group of people. You can’t help America and it’s people if you die fighting the wrong enemy.

You’ll never be fighting the right enemy until you join ROK and help us rid ourselves of the destructive parasites. The enemy is an enemy within, and can not be stopped by killing the wrong people in the Middle East. Now, more than ever, we need a real homeland defense that protects the homeland, FROM the homeland. Get our Basic Training manual and get up to speed already. We’ve been waiting for you.

Source: Yahoo
Date: 31DEC09

KABUL – U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan doubled in 2009 compared with a year ago as 30,000 additional troops began pouring in for a stepped-up offensive and the Taliban fought back with powerful improvised bombs.

A tally by The Associated Press shows 304 American service members had died as of Dec. 30, up from 151 in 2008. The count does not include eight U.S. civilians killed by a suicide bomber on a base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday.

Also, the annual death toll of international troops, including U.S. forces, surpassed 500 for the first time in the war. The total this year was 502 compared with 286 in 2008, according to the AP count.

Among other forces, Britain took the worst blow in 2009 with 107 deaths and Canada lost 32, including four who died Wednesday when their vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb. Other countries in the international military operation lost a total of 59 service members.

U.S. military officials acknowledge that the insurgency has the momentum and that more troops on the battlefield means the death toll is likely to remain high in the near term. Another 30,000 reinforcements are due in coming months, raising the American presence to 100,000.

In contrast, U.S. deaths in Iraq dropped by half as troops largely remained on bases and the United States prepares to withdraw from that country by the end of 2011. There, 152 American service members died, down from 314 a year earlier, according to figures compiled by the AP from U.S. Defense Department information.

The sharply rising death toll in Afghanistan was an obstacle for President Barack Obama as he decided in November to send more forces to the war, which is increasingly unpopular in both America and Europe.

Afghan civilian deaths are more difficult to track, but according to the United Nations mission in Afghanistan, 2,021 were killed in the first 10 months of the year, nearly 1,400 of them by insurgents and 465 by U.S. and other pro-government forces.

Over the past eight years, at least 933 U.S. service members have died in the military campaign that was launched in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to U.S. Defense Department figures that include deaths in Pakistan, Uzbekistan and support operations elsewhere.

As the second surge gets under way, the potential carnage troops face from improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, is a major worry.

The AP count, based on daily reports from NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, found that 129 of the U.S. fatalities in 2009 — or more than 40 percent — were caused by IEDs. The homemade bombs are hidden along the roadside or near buildings and detonated by remote control or triggered when troops cross simple pressure plates.

The Taliban were slower than Iraqi insurgents to adopt IEDs, but they now appear to be the weapon of choice against the Americans’ superior artillery and armored vehicles, said a senior intelligence official with the international force. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

There were more than 7,000 IED incidents in 2009 — including explosions, the discovery and defusing of the bombs or civilians turning them in — compared to just 81 in 2003, the official said.

He estimated that more than three-quarters of all American deaths and injuries in Afghanistan were due to the improvised explosives.

IEDs also take a harsh toll on civilians. In the last four months of the year, 117 were killed by the devices, either deliberately or inadvertently, including 30 who died when a bus ran over an IED in September.

Although the U.S. Defense Department established a body in 2006 to oversee anti-IED efforts, a report by the Government Accountability Office in October criticized it for lacking “full visibility and coordination.”

The Defense Department’s top weapons-buyer, Ashton Carter, told reporters in November that the United States was “just beginning to get set” in developing a full-scale strategy against the bombs.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced in November that a new task force on the matter was being formed.

One initiative under way is shipping a more maneuverable version of the heavily armored vehicles known as MRAPs — Mine Resistant Ambush Protected — to Afghanistan. Although these can withstand blasts better than other military vehicles such as Humvees and Strykers, the Taliban are responding by building bigger IEDs.

The intelligence official said that 18 months ago, the explosive charges typically weighed about 25 pounds (11 kilograms), but charge weights in some recent cases have been upward of 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms) — enough to destroy an MRAP.

The declining U.S. military fatalities in Iraq reflect how the country, once almost consumed by violence, has become safer as sectarian violence has decreased. Also, the American role in the conflict has shrunk. Under a U.S.-Iraq security pact, American combat troops pulled back from Iraqi cities on June 30, as part of a plan to have all U.S. forces out of the country by the end of 2011.

Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the Lexington Institute, said the question now is whether the security gains are permanent or whether insurgents are simply biding their time until American forces leave in order to resume the conflict.

In a move not surprising to members of ROK, Houston’s newly elected gay mayor, which the usurped media has been sure to give high regards, has decided to take the oath of office in private. Citing the cost of a public ceremony, this new gay mayor has decided it would be best to be sworn in privately, without the prying eyes of the public this person was elected to serve. Election ceremonies should have absolutely zero cost, because all one needs is a person to do the swearing in, and nothing more. Should it really be expensive just to swear a person into office, knowing it can be done for free?

The truth is, this is a ploy to avoid swearing on a bible, because America’s usurpers don’t believe in traditional American or Christian values. In fact, they absolutely abhor Christianity, as well as our now defunct Constitution. This is reminiscent of Obama’s swearing in, where his oath was not done properly, and therefore had to be redone behind closed doors. What exactly are these people swearing an oath to, if we can not see it publicly with our own eyes? Why is there no outrage from other elected officials and the media over this shady practice?

Those who have read our Basic Training manual know exactly what kind of allegiances these people have, which can only best be described as Satanic in nature, for lack of a better term. Ask yourself, do you want any elected officials taking oaths behind closed doors? Do you believe this person will take an honest oath to uphold the defunct constitution, and our way of life, if it must be done behind closed doors? Our oath is in the open for all to see, and we hide nothing. Why should they be any different?

Source: Chron
Date: 29DEC09

An overflow crowd of at least 1,000 turned out for Kathy Whitmire when she was sworn in for her fourth term as Houston mayor on Jan. 2, 1988, a Saturday. But this Saturday, when Annise Parker, the city’s first female mayor since Whitmire, repeats the oath of office, very few will be there to hear it.

Parker, said the mayor-elect’s spokeswoman Janice Evans, has opted for a private ceremony. The public, the media and even Parker’s own staff are not invited, Evans said. State District Judge Steven Kirkland will be there, but only because he will do the honors.

Evans described Saturday’s swearing in — the city’s charter mandates that office holders be installed on Jan. 2 — as, essentially, a legal formality.

Parker decided to make the event private, Evans said, in part to eliminate the expense a weekend ceremony would generate and to keep from stealing thunder from Monday’s City Hall inauguration of newly elected officeholders.

Evans could not estimate how much a more elaborate ceremony might cost, but said Parker does not want to incur any unnecessary expenses at a time when the city faces financial constraints.

State Rep. Garnet Coleman (D-Houston), co-chairman of Parker’s transition team, said unheralded swearing-ins in government aren’t unique. “I think it’s something that started a long time ago,” he said, noting that newly elected legislators routinely complete “a paper swearing in” days before their ascension is publicly celebrated.

Whitmire’s 1988 swearing in and inauguration was a very public event, with throngs of well-wishers jamming the Wortham Theater Center.

After repeating the oath of office, Whitmire swore in 14 City Council members who joined her on stage.

According to new rules laid out by Major General Tony Cucolo, a U.S. Military commander in Iraq, women who become pregnant during their tours, and Soldiers who get them pregnant could face serious consequences, including jail time. In a bold move, the commander has put court martial and criminal charges on the table for any troops who might conceive a child without the Military’s permission. This comes as no surprise to many, who understand that Soldiers and their bodies are Military property, and are often treated like any other piece of Military equipment. Used and abused until it can’t be used anymore, then replaced unceremoniously.

It is not against Military rules for single Soldiers to have sexual contact with each other, but the natural results of such contact could now get you locked up by the Military you serve. The real problem with this story is Cucolo’s remark here, “I consider the male soldier as responsible for taking a soldier out of the fight just as responsible as the female soldier who must redeploy”. If you didn’t know any better, you could almost hear how he is relating Soldiers who get their female counterparts pregnant, to an enemy combatant taking out one of our Soldiers.

This is the kind of treatment our Soldiers get when serving unwittingly for the real enemy. The enemy within. If you had our Basic Training knowledge you would know who this enemy is, and why a Military commander would ever get away with making such remarks. Cucolo claims he will only use lesser punishments, but it’s just one step closer to the harshest punishments for the most menial things.

Source: Yahoo
Date: 22DEC09

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The U.S. military commander in northern Iraq defended on Tuesday a new policy imposing strict penalties, including possible jail time, for troops who become pregnant or get other soldiers pregnant.

“In this 22,000-soldier task force, I need every soldier I’ve got, especially since we are facing a drawdown of forces during our mission,” Major General Tony Cucolo, who commands U.S. soldiers in northern Iraq, said in a statement.

Cucolo’s new directive, issued last month when he took command, lays out a long list of activities that could lead to court martial or criminal charges, from gambling to stealing historical artifacts, and applies only to his command.

The clause about pregnancy has garnered the most attention, affecting seven soldiers under Cucolo’s command, according to military spokesman Major Jeff Allen. The command includes 1,682 female soldiers, Allen said.

There are some 115,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, a number set to drop to about 50,000 by the end of August next year as the U.S. military ends combat operations. Under a deal with Iraq, a full withdrawal of U.S. troops is due by the end of 2011.

U.S. Central Command rules do not prohibit “sexual contact between consenting, single servicemembers.”

“I wanted to encourage my soldiers to think before they acted, and understand their behavior and actions have consequences — all of their behavior.

“I consider the male soldier as responsible for taking a soldier out of the fight just as responsible as the female soldier who must redeploy,” Cucolo said.

Allen said Cucolo “takes each case on its own merits, considering each set of circumstances before deciding on punishment.”

He said such punishment could, in the most serious case, include jail time. But soldiers violating the rule so far have received letters of reprimand.

In a statement to ABC News, Cucolo said he would not resort to using the court martial for such cases.

“I see absolutely no circumstance where I would punish a female soldier by court martial for a violation … I fully intend to handle these cases through lesser disciplinary action,” he wrote, according to the ABC report.

This is what our troops have to look forward to as a reward for smashing the sovereignty of a number of Middle Eastern nations, to better serve the usurpers who have a strangle hold on America, and most of the planet. Hunger and homelessness are the new picture of America, as we head into the second engineered economic collapse, and all this by the same people as usual. Funny thing is, these traitorous infiltrators have done this to a number of other countries, and have been ejected on the order of one hundred and nine different times, from eighty four different countries for this very thing. If you knew the real story about history, and not the one printed by these criminals in your school books, you would easily be able to see the pattern. Just in the last year alone, the cry for assistance with the most basic of all needs (feeding one’s self) has jumped over 26%, yet these infiltrators would have you believe we are already recovering. As more and more people lose their jobs (half a million people per week) this problem will only continue to spiral out of control. If you really want to do something to help defend your homeland, you need to get the foxes out of the hen house, but who are the foxes? As soon as you read our Basic Training manual, all of those questions will simply fade away, and as soon as you come home and deal with the real terrorists in every facet of our lives, these problems will instantly start to subside. Of course, 25% of America’s homeless population are Veterans who gave their blood, sweat, and tears while these crooks worked to put their families on the street. How do you think you should respond?

Source: Yahoo
Date: 08DEC09

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Hunger is spreading while the number of homeless families is increasing as a result of the recession and other factors, according to a report on Tuesday.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors said cities reported a 26 percent jump in demand for hunger assistance over the past year, the largest average increase since 1991.

Middle-class families as well as the uninsured, elderly, working poor and homeless increasingly looked for help with hunger, which was mainly fueled by unemployment, high housing costs and low wages.

The 2009 report is based on a survey of 27 cities, including Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia and San Francisco, that comprise the group’s task force on hunger and homelessness.

Looking ahead to 2010, cities said they expect it will be difficult to meet increased demands for food due to the impact of state and local budget cuts, a decrease in grocery store donations and higher food costs.

Just over three-fourths of the cities reported a jump in homeless families due to the recession and lack of affordable housing. Individual homelessness, on the other hand, was level or down in 16 of the cities.

“This is an indication of the success of policies aimed at ending chronic homelessness among single adults with disabilities,” the report said.

Only 10 cities reported having so-called tent cities or other concentrations of the homeless.

Most of the cities in the survey received additional funding to combat hunger and homelessness from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

“Cities are using (housing funds) to develop central intake systems for homeless services, coordinate services more closely with surrounding areas, or offer homeless prevention assistance for the first time,” the report said.