re: #336 iceweasel

I read Horton’s rather shabby rebuttal, and it offers nothing. The fact that Sergeant Hickman was awarded an impact ARCOM means nothing. The approving authority for ARCOMs — i.e. the person who approves the award, not the person who submits the award on behalf of the soldier, is the soldier’s first line supervisor, and in the case of a Sergeant the Colonel was not. ARCOMs are fairly common, and in my experiences, Colonels sign hundreds of them on tours such as these. Furthermore, the non-sequitir of being NCO of the month has nothing to do with the Colonel, as senior NCOs select soldiers for these accolades.

Regarding the Colonel’s statement, I read it to the fact that he was at the medical facility after they had died, not that he was present on the block in the late hours of the night. Neither you nor Horton has answered the critical points I’ve made nor provided any proof for this idiotic allegation.