Mutiny in Iraq

Thanks to Bill in DC

Reservists from the 343rd Quartermaster Company in Iraq refused to go on a mission because their vehicles were considered extremely unsafe according to this report from AP.

The Army is investigating reports that several members of a reservist supply unit in Iraq refused to go on a convoy mission, the military said Friday. Relatives of the soldiers said the troops considered the mission too dangerous.

The reservists are from the 343rd Quartermaster Company, which is based in Rock Hill, S.C. The unit delivers food and water in combat zones.

According to The Clarion-Ledger newspaper in Jackson, Miss., a platoon of 17 soldiers refused to go on a fuel supply mission Wednesday because their vehicles were in poor shape and they did not have a capable armed escort.

The Army has only said it is investigating and that disciplinary action is being considered. The information has come from relatives of soldiers in the unit.

Patricia McCook said her husband told her he did not feel comfortable taking his soldiers on another trip.

``He told me that three of the vehicles they were to use were 'deadlines' ... not safe to go in a hotbed like that,'' she said, according to the newspaper.

Any doubt that Rumsfeld and company consider the troops on the ground in Iraq to be anything but canon fodder?