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SFC (Join to see) "I have no words. No words at all. This is how we are treating fallen Warriors and the widows?"
Sergeant your profile shows you deployed and did your duty.. THANK YOU for all you have done....without movement folks like you, my company, my SM.... OUR soldiers would have been hurting So thank you for all you have done in support.
..., but it also leads one to think you have never walked a patrol, never had your friend or fellow soldier hit by a VBID, Deep buried IED, crush wire IED in front of you, never responded to the site of a squad hit with an RPG and after tripping a IED and the body parts of many US Servicemen are scattered all over. Might be you have never had to remove the remains of your crew from a Bradley after it was blown up with a satchel IED and burned for two days. Id guess you have not carried your commander off of a recovery vehicle after he was evac'd having both legs blown off in a twin shaped charge IED attack., nor gone though his hit vehicle trying to find his prized knife, remove his rifle bent and twisted from the wreckage and found human flesh that needed to be handed over to the Doc for handling. Perhaps you have never been on ground when 30 men have gone down in a Helicopter crash and worked the recovery site..
Maybe you were not on a dismounted patrol this day https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5a8_ [login to see] And found arms, fingers and other parts of volunteer Iraqi defenders on your vehicles days later, having to wash your uniform and Kit many times over to get the body parts off..

Or maybe you have done all that and said ""I have no words. No words at all. This is how we are treating fallen Warriors and the widows?"" anyway...

I know I have, and I know your statements ""I have no words. No words at all. This is how we are treating fallen Warriors and the widows?"" makes no sense to me at all ...


"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investigators found additional human remains in early November of U.S. Army Sergeant La David Johnson, who was killed in an ambush last month in Niger along with three other U.S. soldiers, the Pentagon said on Tuesday."

So tell us, what specifically is it you find wrong with the finding of additional remains and returning them to the US for proper handling?

As gruesome as it sounds, given the media attention this has drawn, maybe DoD should release what exactly was found. Another question is or should be, should DoD have told the family that additional bits had been found. Does it help them or as seems to be the case here, does it cause additional grief?

If you follow the news, we are still recovering bodies/parts of bodies from as far back as the Civil War. It is not uncommon to find remains days, weeks months, years and decades later. That is not the goal but it does happen.

I heard on a report that these were skull fragments that were found during a more "forensic" examination of the area by investigators. I can't find any stories with the details of the remains found.

I am not sure what you mean by this is no way to treat a fallen warrior. Massive efforts were made to get his remains back (as they should have been) and we have sent in a team to investigate further in a pretty dangerous area to find out what happened.