Outpatient soldiers at Building 18 are directed to organize rooms for investigation next week

[sabra]

www.navytimes.com/news/2007/02/TNSreedinspectfolo070228/

Army denies patients face daily inspections

Army officials are denying that soldiers in the Medical Hold Unit at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington will have daily early-morning wakeup calls and room inspections.

But one Building 18 soldier said he woke up Tuesday morning to the sounds of sergeants pounding on doors and yelling, “Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!”

“I was like, ‘Jesus Christ, I’m back in basic training,’” the soldier said.

The soldier said the outpatient soldiers at Building 18 were issued garbage cans and cleaning supplies and told to keep their rooms clean and organized because of all the officials who would be making their way through the building during the investigation next week.

[rubberducky]

1. I am so sick of the repubs USING "the troops".

[meegbear]

2. Are they getting their techniques from Monty Python?

First Doctor: Get on parade! Come on! We haven't got all day, have we? Come on, come on, come on. (the patients painfully get themselves into line) Hurry up ... right! Now, I know some hospitals where you get the patients lying around in bed. Sleeping, resting, recuperating, convalescing. Well, that's not the way we do things here, right! No, you won't be loafing about in bed wasting the doctors' time. You - you horrible little cripple. What's the matter with you?

Patient: Fractured tibia, sergeant.

First Doctor: 'Fractured tibia, sergeant'? 'Fractured tibia, sergeant'? Ooh. Proper little mummy's boy, aren't we? Well, I'll tell you something, my fine friend, if you fracture a tibia here you keep quiet about it! Look at him! (looks more closely) He's broken both his arms and he don't go shouting about it, do he? No! 'Cos he's a man - he's a woman, you see, so don't come that broken tibia talk with me. Get on at the double. One, two, three, pick that crutch up, pick that crutch right up.

The patient hobbles off at the double and falls over.

Patient: Aaargh!

First Doctor: Right, squad, 'shun! Squad, right turn. Squad, by the left, quick limp! Come on, pick 'em up. Get some air in those wounds.

http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode26.htm

[Fridays Child]

3. Did they honestly think that this wouldn't be publicized?

The genie is out of the bottle, on this one, and decent Americans will not ignore the mistreatment of our injured soldiers.

[Fridays Child]

4. The Navy Times page you linked is "missing."

:nuke:

[sabra]

5. fixed

[Fridays Child]

6. Oh, okay...

I thought that it might have been "scrubbed." Just in case, though, I've got it screen-capped.