[NYTr] Comment on Army's pre-Deployment "Brain Testing" for Troops

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

Comment on 9/20/2007 story

"Army Starts pre-Deployment Brain Testing for Iraq-Bound Troops"
http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070917/068807.html

by Peter Bell

On Thu, September 20, 2007 00:49, All the News That Doesn't Fit wrote:
> Via NY Transfer News Collective  *  All the News that Doesn't Fit
>
> [This story is almost funny.  The Army claims their "brain tests" will
> give them a base-line that will allow them to be more
> "pro-active" (whatever that means in this context) about helping
> disabled combat vets. It's too bad they aren't testing people who are
> functional enough to shun military service entirely. It might give
> them a whole new picture and allow them to refuse benefits much more
> widely if they had data showing how many of these people are brain
> damaged to begin with.-NY Transfer]

When I first read the headline, I was for a moment optimistic:  the
Army, perhaps, had decided to start trying to weed out some of the real
scum? Like the psycho from NC who coordinated the gang-rape of the
young Iraqi girl, the wholesale murder of her family, and their
collective incineration?

>From what I've read of the case, if the ringleader hadn't been around,
the whole thing would not likely have gone down.

So, perhaps we could keep gang rapes and slaughter to a minimum.
Torture ordered from Washington would still go on, but perhaps a little
less of the "American Psycho But With a Gun and a Uniform" stuff.

No, no, I forgot.  This is the US military.  They want psychos.

This is mostly a test to find out how much of a fucking moron you are to
be going over in the first place, and to deny a disability benefit on
your return.

"Look, grunt, you weren't going to be doing a lot of differential
equations *anyway,* and we've got the results to prove it.  In fact, you
don't need any goddamn rehabilitation or education, and a GI loan would
have been wasted on you before you got on the motherfucking plane.
Here's a paper hat; Wendy's is right there. Wait a few months and the
Post Office will hire you.  Please try to forget most of what we taught
you once you start up with them, okay?"