Posted
4/26/2007 05:52:00 PM
by Douglas
Racist search? Maybe, maybe not, but one thing's obvious. The C.O. has probably been to
Albuquerque.The commander of New Mexico's National Guard is demanding an apology from the Army brass after dozens of his soldiers in a mostly Hispanic unit were ordered to strip to their gym shorts and searched for gang tattoos while on duty in Kuwait.
Army officials said the searches last May of 58 New Mexico National Guardsmen in a unit called Task Force Cobra were proper and legal.
But Brig. Gen. Kenny Montoya, head of the state National Guard, said he believes ethnicity played a role in the episode — the unit is 55 percent Hispanic.
Wait, what? We're not letting gang members go to Iraq now? Crap, that's who we
should be sending. They've already got their own guns!
Also, if there was
anyone in Albuquerque that didn't have at least one tattoo, I didn't meet them in the six weeks I was there.