The Long Ride Home
Aug 28th, 2006 at 4:56 pm by Susie
Still supporting those troops, I see:
For at least a year, the soldiers had survived one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: driving trucks on the violent roads of Iraq for the US Army. Half the company had been at it nearly two years.
But when the 150 soldiers in the Massachusetts-based 220th Transportation Company , 94th Regional Readiness Command , arrived at Camp Atterbury in Indiana just after midnight Friday for demobilization, they were told they would have to take the bus home — an 18- to 20-hour ride.
“the soldiers were told there was not enough money to pay for their air travel home”