ago. we got only around 15,000 troops in iraq, maybe 7,000 excuse me, afghanistan, 7,000, 8,000 in iraq and 7,000 elsewhere. but look, the bottom line is the law enforcements have been at war for 18 years. some of the special ops or personnel or c-130 squadrons or navy s.e.a.l. teams have been deployed a dozen times. we ve had i have to remind people of this, we had essentially 60,000 killed and wounded fighting the war on terror. so it s an ongoing, constant deployment for the armed forces. and, you know, at the end of the day we really need to give them the tools and to take care of their families so that when we call them at midnight and tell them you re leaving, you re going to be gone six months, you re going to be fighting in afghanistan, they know the system is behind them. this strikes at the heart of that whole process. nick, it s an incredible
piece of reporting from your colleague. i just want to reread this quote, this is the gut you punch for me from a teacher at ft. campbell, jayne loggins, who says this most of our students don t know what it s like to live in a world without war, where you don t have to worry about mom or pop being killed. the one big benefit at this school is we try to support all of those emotional needs. this school that has overcrowding issues, funding has been gutted to pay for donald trump s steel slats or whatever we re calling it this week. this is porn because it shows there s a human cost to the budget cuts the president is using to pay for his wall. this is a school that serves the children of the 101st. they ve been deployed over and over again. they have borne a lot of the bankrupt of the wars we fought. their kids are going to school in a place where there isn t enough room to eat lunch in the cafeteria, where there s no
could add to the pressure would be former sebcretary of defense. do you expect your old bosz to speak out or general mattis, who is in the middle of a book tour, do you expect to hear from any of them? i guess we all want to hear what secretary mattis wants to say but i suspect you re right there. i think former secretary pin etta has been more outspoken than the others. but what i would like to see is other retired generals speaking out particularly about the war of families, we have the war on education and children, but we re getting to the heart of what the military is about, it s about its people. i would like to hear from retired military leaders from a substantive standpoint on why this is the wrong policy. emily jane fox, mark mentioned the war on children in an op-ed on the washington post that goes like this, even without trump s baby jails and
falter with the markets ping-ponging based on the president s erratic behavior. his trade war with china grew more acrimonious. his wit saw diplomacy at the g7 summit left allies uncertain about america s leader ship. whip saw. so phil rucker, let me get the names, stephanie grik sham and hogan gridley wrote an op ed and campaigned about the washington post and wrote to the post could have written about the president s effort to ease loan debt for veterans but, oops, i have to stop because i think you guys did, right? didn t you? i think there has been reporting about that. but the post could have written about the fist time in history a sitting u.s. president walked across the dmz into north korea. i know you did.
families at ft. campbell along the kentucky-tennessee border have borne the brunt of the country s efforts clip of troops with 101 hft airborne division and from special operations units deployed to afghanistan and iraq. this morning they discovered this he would not get the new school they were expecting because of president trump s desire to build the border wall. the plan to divert $62 million towards the construction of ft. campbell s middle school means 562 students in sixth, seventh and eighth grade will continue to cram themselves in 30 to a classroom in some cases, at the beige s aging mahaffey middle school. and they said, most of our students don t know what it s like to live in a war without war, where you don t have to worry about mom or pop being killed. the one big benefit of the