Live Blogging
7:17:57 PM: 05/07/09 Live Blogging for You Served Radio
7:18:20 PM: New blog entry: Live Blogging http://bit.ly/uEFg8
7:19:15 PM: Talking with CPT Roger Hill who is bring wrongly thrown out of the Army
7:26:22 PM: Talking to Roger Hill’s Attorney Neal Puckett
7:26:52 PM: Neal is a retired LTC Marine who has practiced law in the military and civilian sectors for over 25 years
7:30:35 PM: Puckett says Soldiers are treated as guilty until proven innocent in military justice system.
7:31:39 PM: Zero tolerance policy in the military is what is causing many of the problems that we are facing
7:32:52 PM: Neal Puckett also represented LTC West
7:33:12 PM: He has also represented Marines that were accused in the Haditha incident
7:35:01 PM: Neal Puckett is now off, but we will probably have him back on the show int he future
7:35:01 PM: Neal Puckett is now off, but we will probably have him back on the show int he future
7:40:57 PM: Just had a call about Roger Hill’s discharge type
7:44:21 PM: ISAF rules of engagement are different than OEF rules of engagement
7:47:54 PM: Shooting into a hesco caused the Army to accuse CPT Hill of mock execiution
7:52:46 PM: CID told one of CPT Hill’s soldiers that if he didn’t testify against CPT Hill they would revoke his citizenship
7:55:20 PM: The CID agents wanted CPT Hill to sign off on their Combat Action Badge orders while they were investigating him
8:00:55 PM: Roger just referred to Afghanistan as the “Popular, Forgotten War”
8:02:45 PM: The 101st Command has forbidden Roger’s company from making any contact with him, even though they are back
8:04:15 PM: CPT Hill gets thrown under the bus & assumed guilty B4 proven innocent; we bend ovr backwards so that terrorists and insurgents have rights!
8:05:36 PM: Roger had a company in his FOB, now there is almost an entire BDE sitting on the FOB
8:07:01 PM: The milblogger TSO is dialed in asking a question
8:12:31 PM: National will is an important part of the war fighting resources
8:21:58 PM: You can write to Secretary of the Army Geren of your elected representative to ask for CPT Hill to have a honorable discharge
8:24:20 PM: CPT Roger Hill is still fighting a legal battle to get the proper discharge for him and 1SG Scott. Check out http://www.morethanbrothers.com
8:25:10 PM: We are now talking with PW Singer who wrote “Wired For War”
8:26:05 PM: Watch this, http://is.gd/qwqx to see an awesome video that the book Wired for War is about
8:28:52 PM: Mr. Singer is very knowledgeable about micro robots and other cutting edge technologies are being researched by DOD
8:31:44 PM: Sometimes there can be too much technology
8:31:57 PM: just like there can be too much safety
8:33:30 PM: Bill Gates “Robots are where today, where computers were in the 80s”
8:36:39 PM: Some scientists think we will have robotic soldiers by 2020
8:38:21 PM: Many of the new systems still have vulnerabilities, via hackers or communication jamming
8:39:14 PM: There are low-tech ways to neutralize high-tech weapons, like spray paint
8:40:32 PM: “Human ingenuity is still at the heart of everything” – PW Singer
8:43:37 PM: Robotics help give eyes on the battlefield, defuse bombs and provide prosthetics for those wounded on the battlefield by those bombs
8:47:14 PM: TSO just asked about how robotics and technology can help with the piracy issue on our ships
8:51:08 PM: Now we are talking about unmanned vehicle strikes in Pakistan
9:07:12 PM: Wired for War can be found on Amazon.com, just search for it.
9:07:34 PM: Show was closed with a great American Storyteller
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