SFTT: A Visit from the Commander-in-Chief

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04-12-2005

A Visit from the Commander-in-Chief

By Ed Offley

It was a day of soaring rhetoric and picture-perfect video and still photo images as President George W. Bush today visited Fort Hood, Tex., to thank the troops for their services in Iraq.

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This is how it was described by a DefenseWatch reader identifying himself as “Joe Grunt” from Fort Hood – a soldier with the 4th Infantry Division – who wrote DefenseWatch Senior Military Columnist Col. David Hackworth on the eve of the president’s arrival there:

“Tomorrow (Apr. 12), the POTUS is coming to Fort Hood to welcome the 1st Cav home. Nearly my entire brigade is out doing FTXs, gunneries, etc. So we get pulled back in to go to this ceremony. You’d think it would be a welcome break from the field - get a shower, hot meal, warm bed ... but it’s not.”

“We have to form-up at 0315 on the 4th ID side , and march the five miles to where the ceremony is, which just happens to start at 1000. When the ceremony is over (scheduled for 1200), we get to march back to our respective areas, get about four safety briefs, then be dismissed until O-dark-thirty the following day so we can finish our respective missions.”

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