Grand_Moff_Joseph: That said, the fact that he was even sent on 14 tours of duty to the same place does not speak well of our foreign policy over the last decade.

Not to defend our abysmal foreign policy, but Iraq and Afghanistan aren't the same place.

/Godspeed, Sgt. Domeij

I didn't know they had Oakland Cops over there too . . .

/Too soon?

RIP, Warrior. 14 deployments on a ship, not getting shot at would be withering, but this is an incredible and sad tally.

RIP

Grand_Moff_Joseph: 14 tours and over 5,000 combat missions. All before he reached the age of 30.

Wow, just wow. Hero tag definitely well earned here.


That said, the fact that he was even sent on 14 tours of duty to the same place does not speak well of our foreign policy over the last decade.

There's no way ANYONE should have to be deployed 14 times to the same place. Ever.

Magorn: Well not to take away from the man's gallantry, but "rescue" is too strong a word for what happened with Jessica Lynch. She was baically handed over by sympathetic pro-American doctors at the hospital she was taken to, who got their hospital trashed by American forces as a thank you

She was the kid that fell down the well, right?

Halfway down the trail to Hell,
In a shady meadow green
Are the Souls of all dead troopers camped,
Near a good old-time canteen.
And this eternal resting place
Is known as Fiddlers' Green.

Marching past, straight through to Hell
The Infantry are seen.
Accompanied by the Engineers,
Artillery and Marines,
For none but the shades of Cavalrymen
Dismount at Fiddlers' Green.

Though some go curving down the trail
To seek a warmer scene.
No trooper ever gets to Hell
Ere he's emptied his canteen.
And so rides back to drink again
With friends at Fiddlers' Green.

And so when man and horse go down
Beneath a saber keen,
Or in a roaring charge of fierce melee
You stop a bullet clean,
And the hostiles come to get your scalp,
Just empty your canteen,
And put your pistol to your head
And go to Fiddlers' Green.

---

RIP Sergeant.

What do we do, knowing that he would never want to be called a hero? Should we honor that request? It doesn't downplay his achievements or character, just pays tribute to his professionalism and his modesty. God knows he has my respects.

Wow, doing what you love I take it. I guess you gotta think that is how he wanted to go. That or farking. But then you aren't a hero. Unless it's 3 chicks at one time, and one of them is Asian and the other two are sisters.

Grand_Moff_Joseph: Wow, just wow. Hero tag definitely well earned here.

THIS

That said, the fact that he was even sent on 14 tours of duty to the same place does not speak well of our foreign policy over the last decade.

and definitely THIS.

A soldier volunteers to risk his life for his country when needed.

His country has a duty to make sure it isn't needed.

Some would say he shouldn't have been deployed in these illegal incursions...


Hero or terrorist?


/amidoingitright?

Godspeed, Sgt Domeij.

You were the embodiment of "Rangers Lead the Way."

Time to dig out a certain dusty old bottle of scotch and toast another quality individual who served more than his share.

Sadly, that bottle is getting empty.

and he was part of the team that rescued Jessica Lynch from the other part of the team

angrygrizzly: Grand_Moff_Joseph: 14 tours and over 5,000 combat missions. All before he reached the age of 30.

Wow, just wow. Hero tag definitely well earned here.


That said, the fact that he was even sent on 14 tours of duty to the same place does not speak well of our foreign policy over the last decade.

There's no way ANYONE should have to be deployed 14 times to the same place. Ever.

Deploy once, fight until the enemy is utterly defeated (See Germany 1945) come home, fark your wife until you have a house full of kids. That's how it should be.

/we should level Afghanistan and bring the men home

damn....HERO indeed.

sad tag weeps

damn dude, know when to say when on your ass-kicking.

Dang...sucks for his family. Gotta feel for the kids left fatherless...

Respects to Sgt. Domeij, but wtf with deploying this man 14 times into combat zones?

/RIP

Tell Me How My Blog Tastes: That little fact in no way makes him any less of a badass, or a hero. 14 war time deployments is a stunning figure and not something most humans would be able to handle

FTA

"In all, Domeij had a combined total of 48 months of deployment in combat."

Not knocking this guy at all, but aren't tours normally 6 months (or longer)?

RIP

Domeij left his family members with explicit instructions: "If I'm ever killed, I don't want you talking to the media, making a big deal out of it."

Says the media as it makes a big deal out of it.

Grand_Moff_Joseph: ihatedumbpeople: Dang...sucks for his family. Gotta feel for the kids left fatherless...

Exactly. Kids with no father, and a wife with no partner to share life with.

Now imagine how the kids will feel when they grow up and figure out that their dad was sent on 14 tours of duty based on falsities and half-truths.

That's really the bummer...at what point do these soldiers say "you know what? I've been deployed X number of times, this is getting nuts". Though I will say this...14 deployments in 11 years isn't abnormal for special forces units like the Rangers. Still tough though, having kids and whatnot...

liam76: Tell Me How My Blog Tastes: That little fact in no way makes him any less of a badass, or a hero. 14 war time deployments is a stunning figure and not something most humans would be able to handle

FTA

"In all, Domeij had a combined total of 48 months of deployment in combat."

Not knocking this guy at all, but aren't tours normally 6 months (or longer)?

I think Ranger deployments are often shorter. But still. I hate to be the spoilsport, but 5,000 missions over 48 combat months comes to 3.4 missions per day, every day, while deployed. That sounds high. I'm thinking the reporter here took the family's silence as a license to play fast and loose with the facts.

With a wife and kids you'd figure the guy wouldn't be so quick to go back to the front.

RIP

and Thank You

RIP Brother

Grand_Moff_Joseph: ihatedumbpeople: Dang...sucks for his family. Gotta feel for the kids left fatherless...

Exactly. Kids with no father, and a wife with no partner to share life with.

Now imagine how the kids will feel when they grow up and figure out that their dad was sent on 14 tours of duty based on falsities and half-truths.

I see we have a truther in our midst.

Grand_Moff_Joseph: Smeggy Smurf: angrygrizzly: Grand_Moff_Joseph: 14 tours and over 5,000 combat missions. All before he reached the age of 30.

Wow, just wow. Hero tag definitely well earned here.


That said, the fact that he was even sent on 14 tours of duty to the same place does not speak well of our foreign policy over the last decade.

There's no way ANYONE should have to be deployed 14 times to the same place. Ever.

Deploy once, fight until the enemy is utterly defeated (See Germany 1945) come home, fark your wife until you have a house full of kids. That's how it should be.

/we should level Afghanistan and bring the men home

While you're at it, level the Pakistan government. They're part of the problem too.


if we tried that, we'd probably have to fight off the offers of help with a stick.

/really large stick.

ZUJ a tic. Sgt. Domeij?

Is he really an E-5? How do you do 14 deployments, 5,000 missions, 10 years in the Army and only reach E-5?