SAG

Rohan Coombs
US Marine, Persian Gulf War Veteran

Jamaica

Rohan came to America with his mom and sisters from Jamaica when he was only 9 years old.
He graduated from high school in New York and promptly joined the military to serve the country he loved.
Rohan joined the marines in 1988 and was deployed to Iraq a few years later. While in the military Rohan filed for his citizenship but was told “You are property of the United… Read More

March 20 2009 : Army Ranger 1st Lt Michael Behanna was sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing Ali Mansur, a known Al Qaeda operative while serving in Iraq. Mansur was known to be a member of an Al Qaeda cell operating in the lieutenant’s area of operation and was suspected to have organized an attack on Lt Behenna’s platoon in April 2008 which killed two US soldiers and injured two more. US intelligence ordered the release of Mansur and Lt… Read More

Well I will try to put a selection of photos every month if you are playing that game with me. I can surf the net to find images but why should I do this if I can let you send you own photos with descriptions and by the same way giving a small hello to you relatives in the USA.
So no problem at all but please don't send me photos sized like Postal stamps. They must be at least 1024 pixels wide and I will do the rest and even correct them if they are not to good. Don't… Read More

Dahr Jamail

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov 16 (IPS) - According to a soldiers' advocacy group at Fort Hood, the US base where an army psychiatrist has been charged with killing 13 people and wounding 30 in a Nov. 5 rampage, the official suicide figures provided by the Army are "definitely" too low.
Chuck Luther served 12 years in the military and is a veteran of two deployments to Iraq, where he was a reconnaissance scout in… Read More

Chuck Luther of Disposable Warriors, FT Hood Texas, with a message for President Obama to mark Thanksgiving on November 27th, 2009. Talk Nation Radio for November 26, 2009. (Produced by Dori Smith)

In his Thanksgiving message President Barack Obama said it was a time to remember those who cannot sit down to break bread with those they love. He was referring to the more than 5100 US soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. We are focusing on a different statistic, the soldier who feels overwhelmed by war, who may have sustained invisible wounds, and so commits suicide. Suicide is often an act of irrational desire for change,… Read More

The Soldier’s Advocacy Group of Disposable Warriors was created in October 2007 by former SGT(E-5) Chuck… Read More