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Miners Used HomemadeRockets And Slingshots

Against Police, Barricading AHighway And A Rail Line In The

Northern Town Of Cinera OnJune 19
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Some 80 Officers Firing RubberBullets Were Repelled By

Hundreds Of Miners And ForcedTo Retreat

Spanish Coal Miners Converged OnMadrid Tuesday For Protest RalliesAfter Walking Nearly Three Weeks

Under A Blazing Sun From The PitsWhere They Eke Out A Living

People Along The Way Gave ThemFood, Water, Shelter And Support

Miners march along a street after walking for more than 20 days from the northernAsturias and Leon regions, on their way to Puerta del Sol, Madrid's most emblematicsquare, on the evening of July 10, 2012. Andrea Comas / Reuters


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Emilio Morenatti / AP

[Thanks to Alan Stolzer, Military Resistance Organization, who sent this in.]

7/10/2012 By DANIEL WOOLLS, Associated Press

MADRID Spanish coal miners angered by huge cuts in government subsidies for theirindustry converged on Madrid Tuesday for protest rallies after walking nearly threeweeks under a blazing sun from the pits where they eke out a living.

Two columns of miners met up in a Madrid suburb in the evening. They marcheddowntown at night, trudging along major avenues to the Puerta del Sol, the Spanishcapital's most emblematic square, where young demonstrators opposed to austerity cutsprompted by the financial crisis in Spain and Europe camped out last year in defiance ofa government ban.

The miners, wearing hard hats with lights turned on like they use them to seeunderground, were joined by thousands of sympathizers in the city. Some lit flares abovehighway overpasses and erected banners comparing the miners' plight to Spain'sincreasingly pressured working class hit by higher taxes, new regulations making itcheaper to fire workers and funding cuts for education and national health care.

One group of about 160 miners walked all the way from the northern Asturias and Leonregions, as many as 400 kilometers (250 miles) away from Madrid, and about 40 madean almost equally long trek from the northeastern Aragon region. A much bigger rally ofminers and their supporters traveling to Madrid aboard hundreds of chartered buses isscheduled for Wednesday.

The miners' complaints include a 63 percent cut in subsidies to coal mining companiesstruggling to maintain a share of the Spanish energy market against gas-fired electrical


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plants and renewable energy sources, while fighting to hold their own against cheaperimported coal.

Coal miners make an average of 1,200 euros a month, said Conchi Alonso, aspokeswoman for the UGT union. She described the industry as dwindling to almostnothing. Today there are 8,000-9,000 coal miners in Spain, whereas 20 years ago there

were nearly 30,000 in Asturias alone.

Besides cuts in subsidies to the coal companies, Spain's conservative government thattook power in December has enacted austerity-minded cuts in funding for miners tolearn new professions and for school grants for their children in the generally poormining regions where they live.

Alonso said the trek from up north since June 22 she has been with the miners thewhole time has been unforgettable, thanks to the solidarity of people along the waywho gave them food, water, shelter and support.

"It has been an utterly unique experience," she said. "To see how people help each

other, it has been moving."

Before setting out for Madrid, miners clashed with Spanish police in Leon.

Miners used homemade rockets and slingshots against police, barricading a highwayand a rail line in the northern town of Cinera on June 19.

At one point, some 80 officers firing rubber bullets were repelled by hundreds of minersand forced to retreat.

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The Cheers Were DeafeningThe Assembled Crowd Reached OutTo Touch Them, Shake Their Hands"People Were Waiting For Someone To

Stand Up Against The Politicians"

[Thanks to Alan Stolzer, Military Resistance Organization, who sent this in.]

July 11, 2012 By Tim Friend, Aljazeera [Excerpts]

At first it seemed like a throwback to an earlier era: miners trudging along the Spanishhighway, protesting the death of their industry.

In the age of financial services, the internet and ever-changing technology, the minershave become an almost forgotten species in Europe.


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Yet, by the time they reached Madrid at the end of a 400km march from their mines inthe north, their plight had captured the public imagination.

In Spain, the public also feels under threat from job cuts and further austerity.

In the early hours of Wednesday, the miners strode into Madrid's Puerta del Sol, their pitlamps blazing on their safety helmets.

The assembled crowd reached out to touch them, shake their hands. The cheers weredeafening.

The miners did not expect this welcome, but their action was having a liberating effect onSpaniards uncertain how to respond to the economic crisis and its impact on their lives.

"People were waiting for someone to stand up against the politicians," said one miner,as the crowd pressed in on him, yelling their support.

The miners, men and women, already had their place in Spain's history.

They dared to stand up to the last dictator, General Francisco Franco, when thepunishment for industrial action could be severe. No wonder, then, that the atmosphereon their arrival was charged with emotion.

Will they succeed in hanging on to their subsidies while they attempt to make theirindustry viable? The politicians will decide, and the real decisions are not being made inMadrid.

The European Commission and Central Bank are shouting the orders. And althoughthere are plenty of independent voices saying the mines should be given a chance, it

would take a brave Spanish politician to follow such a route in the present economiccrisis.

A few hours after the elation of the miners' arrival in the capital, the prime ministerannounced more austerity measures.

If the miners lose, their communities will be devastated.

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Thousands Of Spanish Miners AndTheir Supporters Flooded The StreetsOf Madrid In A Second Day Of Mass

Protests


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The Crowd Chanted, Miners, Stick ItOut, Spain Is Rising Up!

The shirt at the right reads: "I'd rather bail out a miner than a banker".

Sympathizers welcome Spanish coal miners during a march through Madrid on July 10,2012. (AFP Photo/Dominique Faget)


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7.11.12 TV-Novosti,

Thousands of Spanish miners and their supporters flooded the streets of Madridin a second day of mass protests, just hours after the countrys leader announceda nationwide tax hike.

Workers marched up the citys main avenue, wearing hardhats and carrying walkingsticks, to protest outside the Industry Ministry.

The crowd chanted, Miners, stick it out, Spain is rising up! as they made their waytoward Madrids central square on Tuesday.

"We didn't expect such a big welcome. The fact that people are coming into the streetand mobilizing is a good sign, Roberto Quintas, a miner of 22 years, told AFP.

Workers set off fireworks, generating large puffs of smoke along the streets.

The miners were joined by relatives and supporters, also angry at cuts made inresponse to the economic crisis.

Spains working class has been hit with increased pressure in recent months, faced withhigher taxes and new regulations, which make it cheaper to fire employees. The countryhas also seen recent funding cuts to education and national healthcare.

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Foreign Occupation ServicememberKilled Somewhere Or Other In

Afghanistan:Nationality Not Announced

July 11, 2012 Reuters

A foreign servicemember died following an improvised explosive device attack insouthern Afghanistan today.

Tampa Soldier Dies In Afghanistan

Attack That Claimed 6

Army Staff Sgt. Ricardo Ricky Seija died Sunday in Afghanistan.

July 11, 2012 By Marlene Sokol and Robbyn Mitchell, Times Staff Writers

TAMPA It was 6:15 Monday morning and Ignacia Seija was getting ready for her jobas an airport custodian.

Her two dogs started barking. Her husband saw two men in military uniformsapproaching their West Tampa home.

"When I saw those two men, I knew it wasn't anything good," Ignacia Seija said inSpanish. "I knew my son had died."


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Her son, Army Staff Sgt. Ricardo Seija, 31, was killed Sunday in a roadside bombing inAfghanistan.

It was the same attack, a family member said, that had killed Army Sgt. ClarenceWilliams III, 23, of Brooksville and four other Americans. They were riding in an armored

vehicle in Wardak province, just south of Kabul, when an improvised explosive devicewent off.

The knock on the door of the West Tampa home was the second visit militaryofficers had made early Monday to deliver grim news.

At 5 a.m., officers told the Williams family that their son, a 2008 Hernando High gradwho hoped to someday become a Florida Highway Patrol trooper, had died in the attack.

Williams and Seija became the 27th and 28th Tampa Bay area service members to havedied in Afghanistan.

"I don't understand it," Ignacia Seija said Tuesday. "Why? Why? He was my baby."

A staff sergeant in the 978th military police company, Seija was the youngest of threesons of Ignacia and her husband, also named Ricardo.

The parents emigrated from Colombia, and the sons spent their childhoods in Chicago.

As children, the three would wrestle together, Ignacia Seija said. Ricardo became a highschool wrestler.

The parents brought him to Tampa in the late 1990s, where he enrolled in Leto HighSchool. He was quiet, but well-liked.

"The girls used to all chase him," his mother said.

He wasn't a great student, she said, but wasn't a bad one, either.

"He never got in trouble. He was respectful of everyone. He was very disciplined,"Ignacia Seija said.

And Ricardo wanted to join the Army as soon as he graduated. "It was his emotion," shesaid. "It was something he felt in his heart. He loved his country."

When he joined, mother and son had the first of many conversations in which she would

tell him to be careful.

The Army sent him to Korea, Germany and Puerto Rico. In Puerto Rico, he met his firstwife, Sgt. Jill Taylor.

He made a positive impression on his father-in-law, a tugboat captain from Bay St.Louis, Miss.


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"I got the impression that he liked the toughness of his duty," said the father-in-law, JimTaylor. "He was really enthusiastic about moving up in the ranks."

He described Seija as a quiet man who did his job and never complained.

Seija married Jill Taylor in 2003 and had a son Little Ricky, Ignacia Seija calls him.

Seija and Taylor divorced in 2006. The 8-year-old boy lives in Missouri with his motherand grandmother, Jim Taylor said.

Seija recently remarried, said Ignacia Seija, who is a custodian at Tampa InternationalAirport. He deployed to Afghanistan in March.

Taylor reached out to his ex-son-in-law recently and asked him to come home to be withLittle Ricky, who had been getting in trouble in school.

"He applied for a hardship leave and was supposed to be home in a month," Taylor said."It's a tragedy all the way around. At the very time when his son needed him the most,

he was killed."

The staff sergeant and his mother would talk on the phone about once a week. He wouldask about his older brothers in Chicago.

"He couldn't say anything about his work," she said, and that frustrated her. "It was likehaving your hands tied by your sides."

Be careful, she kept reminding him. Don't trust anybody. Not even little children.

Services will be held in Tampa, but details have not been announced.

Notice went out to Little Ricky in Missouri as well.

"The Army came to the house early Monday morning and told him his dad died," JimTaylor said. "They said he was a hero and he was no longer here, and that he was up inthe sky."

Memorial Held For Marine Killed InAfghanistan

Jul 06, 2012 By Jessica Oh, WLKY

BROWNSTOWN, Ind. -

A Marine was remembered by his community Friday.

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Dozens in Brownstown have come out to honor the fallen Marine -- someone who wasmuch-loved in the community and someone who died fighting for his country.

Hogan was one of the latest Marines killed in the line of duty, but it was hard for theBrownstown community to believe because many of them remembered Hogan as abright, young neighborhood kid.

"It's just amazing. They grow up with you and all of a sudden, one day, they're gone,"said Hogan's friend, Tony Holman.

Hogan died June 23. He was on a tour of duty in Afghanistan when he was killed duringa combat operation.

Hogan's best friend was on the same mission.

To remember the Marine, hundreds watched as a parade was held for Hogan, followedby a memorial service.

"Being 21 years old, he had his whole life ahead of him but chose to fight for us. And Imean, how much more respect could you give someone, you know?" said Kaylinn Keirn,who attended the service.

The memorial service was held simultaneously with Hogan's funeral in Nebraska, wherehis father lives.

With heavy hearts, the community remembered everything Hogan accomplished.

The flag was at half-staff to honor Hogan on Friday.

He was a 2009 graduate of Brownstown Central High School, and he left behind a wife,

whom he married about a year ago.

Hogan was killed during combat Operation Enduring Freedom.

He has been laid to rest in St. Joseph's Cemetary in York, Neb.

Pa. Soldier From York County Killed InAfghanistan

July 10, 2012 AP

SPRING GROVE, Pa. (AP) A Pennsylvania soldier from York County has been killedin Afghanistan.

A family member confirmed Tuesday that Cameron Stambaugh of Spring Grove, anArmy private first class and a military police officer, died in a bombing on Sunday.


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The soldier's grandfather, Quentin Stambaugh, says his 20-year-old grandson enlisted inthe Army after graduating from high school in 2010 and had been in Afghanistan for onlyabout three months. He was wounded by shrapnel only three weeks after he arrived,but his grandfather says he had recovered and was back on duty.

NATO officials say six Americans were killed in a bombing in eastern Afghanistan on

Sunday and a seventh American died that day in a separate attack in southernAfghanistan.

Afghanistan Theater:US Forces Suffered 211 Combat

Casualties In The Two Weeks EndingJuly 10 Raising The Total To 35,007.

Jul 10, 2012 www.michaelmunk.com [Excerpts]

US military occupation forces in Afghanistan under Commander-in-Chief Obamasuffered 211 casualties in the two weeks ending July 10, as the official casualty total forthe Iraq and AfPak wars rose to 114,475.

AFGHANISTAN THEATER: US forces suffered 211 combat casualties in the two weeksending July 10 raising the total to 35,007.

This includes 18,382 dead and wounded from what the Pentagon classifies as "hostile"causes and 16,625 dead or medically evacuated (as of May 7) from what it calls "non-

hostile" causes.

US media divert attention from the actual cost in American life and limb by reportingregularly only the total killed (6,519: 4,489 in Iraq, 2030 in Afghanistan) but rarelymentioning those wounded in action (49,008: 32,227 in Iraq, 16,781 in Afghanistan).They ignore the 58,948 (42,752 in Iraq, 16,196 in AfPak as of May 7) military casualtiesinjured and ill seriously enough to be medevac'd out of theater, even though the 6,505total dead include 1,391 (962 in Iraq, 429 in Afghanistan) who died from those same"non hostile" causes, including 314 suicides (as of May 7) and at least 18 in Iraq fromfaulty KBR electrical work.

POLITICIANS REFUSE TO HALT THEBLOODSHED

THE TROOPS HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THEWAR


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Shipments To Troops In AfghanistanVia Pakistan Not Happening:

Not A Single Fuel Truck Has Left EitherOf The Two Main Ports In Karachi

Jul 11, 2012 By Rebecca Santana - The Associated Press [Excerpts]

ISLAMABAD Bureaucratic delays have largely held up shipments to troops inAfghanistan via its eastern neighbor, Pakistani officials said Wednesday, a week afterthe country reopened U.S. and NATO supply lines.

So far, only a handful of supply trucks have crossed the border, which Pakistan closed tothe convoys last November after American airstrikes accidentally killed 24 Pakistaniborder troops. Islamabad agreed to reopen the supply routes on July 3, after months ofnegotiations and a U.S. apology over the incident.

Two trucks carrying supplies to U.S. and NATO troops passed through theChaman border crossing in the southern province of Baluchistan last Thursday,but a Pakistani customs official said that no other trucks have crossed since then.

Four trucks from the port city of Karachi arrived at the border Wednesday and areexpected to cross on Thursday, the official added. Chaman is one of two bordercrossings used to transport supplies.

Trucks have yet to pass at Torkham, the second crossing, a regional official innorthern Pakistan said.

Since official resumption of the supply route, not a single fuel truck has left eitherof the two main ports in Karachi, said Israr Shinwari, president of the All PakistanTankers Association.

Before the closure, about 150 to 200 trucks carrying NATO supplies crossed theborder daily.

Security also seemed to play a role in the delay.

A representative of a company that has 100 containers waiting for shipment in a

warehouse in Karachi, Mansoor Ahmad, said his firm was worried about security givenrecent anti-U.S. protests in Pakistan.

On Monday thousands of people rallied in Islamabad against the governments decisionto reopen the supply lines.

Anti-American sentiment in Pakistan is high, in part due to the continued use ofAmerican drones to strike militant targets in tribal areas.


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More protests are scheduled for the coming days.

MILITARY NEWS

Homeland Security FilthContinue Tormenting Troops,

Defying Congress And Breaking

Law:Official Liar Denies It, But TheProof Is Clear:

You Are Already In Violation Of TheLaw, Said Cravaack, A Retired Navy

Reserve CaptainJust Last Week, I Spoke To A Service

Member Who Was Asked To Strip DownTo Go Through Security, To Remove

Boots And His Service Blouse

Jul 11, 2012 By Rick Maze - Staff writer; Army Times

Expedited airport screening for service members and their families was ordered by

Congress last year, but it wont happen at every airport until the end of 2013 because ofproblems verifying that travelers are really military members.

Testifying July 11 before the House Homeland Security Committee, the assistantadministrator for security operations for the Transportation Security Administration saidthere are relaxed procedures at every airport in the U.S. to reduce exposure to patdowns and other invasive procedures that apply to other travelers.


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These relaxed procedures include waiving the requirement for service members toremove their shoes, jackets or belts and to remove laptops from carry-on bags, said theTSA official, Chris McLaughlin.

The plans are not what Congress expected.

Rep. Chip Cravaack, R-Minn., said the Risk-based Security Screening for Membersof the Armed Forces Act, signed into law by President Obama on Jan. 3, made nomention of the militarys Common Access Card and required, within 180 days ofenactment, expedited screening for service members traveling in uniform onorders which has not yet happened.

The intent of the law has not been implemented, and we took Iraq in less time,Cravaack said.

Our service members deserve better.

Only Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., and the Seattle-Tacoma

International Airport have expedited screening for service members, where active andreserve military members are allowed to use lines reserved for people who have beenpre-screened by TSA.

You are already in violation of the law, said Cravaack, a retired Navy Reservecaptain.

This law is not optional. Just last week, I spoke to a service member who wasasked to strip down to go through security, to remove boots and his serviceblouse, and another service member a few weeks before that.

Military Justice Is A JokeI Ask, What Will It Take To Bring SomeKind Of Uniformity To The Punishments

Given Under The UCMJ?

Id like to comment on the article Mockery of justice: Soldiers voice outrage over lightsentence in bigamy case [Army Times July 2].

Retired Staff Sgt. John Mackes stated that military justice is a joke.

Id agree.

In a letter (2 officers, 2 punishments) appearing in the same issue, former Sgt. 1stClass Traviss R. Wood asked, What will it take to bring some kind of uniformity to thepunishments given under the Uniform Code of Military Justice?


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Im not a lawyer and have no desire to ever become one. However, I served at the FortLewis Regional Corrections Facility as a mental health specialist from 2005 to 2007 andhad the opportunity to see soldiers on the flip side of UCMJ punishment.

While reviewing mental health charts one day, I noticed identical sentences fortwo different inmates: 12 months confinement, dishonorable discharge,

forfeiture of all pay and allowances, reduction in rank to E-1.

From the sentence, you might assume that the confining offenses would besimilar.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

The offenses for the first inmate included three counts of indecent acts andliberties with a child under the age of 12; three counts of carnal knowledge; andmultiple counts of possession of child pornography.

The offense for the second inmate: desertion.

I understand desertion is dishonorable, but there is nothing anyone can say tojustify or rationalize the logic behind systems where results like these arepossible.

Within any piece of writing especially those applied to law, crime and punishment there are concepts and frameworks which leave themselves vulnerable to interpretation(that is the problem).

However, I will reiterate, military justice is a joke, and I ask, what will it take to bringsome kind of uniformity to the punishments given under the UCMJ?

1st Lt. Justin C. CoxFort Bragg, N.C.

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Two More Pilots HaveReportedly Experienced Oxygen
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Problems In The F-22 Raptor,The Worlds Most Expensive

Fighter JetSo Far The Air Force Has SaidThere Have Been 36 Episodes

Air Force Bullshit Excuse About VestConstriction Turns Out To Be

Bullshit:The Air Force Ordered Pilots To FlyWithout The Vest Before Latest Oxygen

Failures

July 10, 2012 By ELISABETH BUMILLER, New York Times [Excerpts]

WASHINGTON Two lawmakers demanded an explanation from the Air Force on

Tuesday for why two more pilots have reportedly experienced oxygen problems in the F-22 Raptor, the worlds most expensive fighter jet.

This seems to be a never-ending saga, Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia,told reporters in a joint conference call with Representative Adam Kinzinger, Republicanof Illinois.

The lawmakers were reacting to two recent episodes, the latest in a series over the last18 months calling the planes safety into question.

On July 6 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii, an F-22 pilot declared anin-flight emergency because he was experiencing symptoms of hypoxia, or

oxygen deprivation.

On June 26 at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia, another F-22 pilot pulled hisemergency oxygen handle during landing because of what the Air Forcecharacterized as discomfort from intermittent air flow into his mask duringflight.

In addition, Mr. Warner and Mr. Kinzinger said they were concerned about whathappened on May 31 at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, where a pilot hit the


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runway without his landing gear down. They said that it was premature to assumethat hypoxia was the cause, but that the episode should be investigated.

I have concerns about the Air Forces ability to get to the bottom of this, Mr. Warnersaid.

My patience is running thin.

In a letter on Tuesday to Michael B. Donley, the Air Force secretary, Mr. Warner and Mr.Kinzinger asked for a full accounting of all the occurrences of hypoxia-like symptoms inRaptor pilots since the plane went into service in 2005. So far the Air Force has saidthere have been 36 episodes, with 21 of those unexplained over all a far greaternumber per flight hour than in other types of aircraft in its fleet. (The two most recentoccurrences and the episode at Tyndall are not included in the 36.)

Air Force officials have been struggling to understand for more than a year why somepilots become dizzy or disoriented during F-22 flights or immediately afterward.

Last month they appeared to have made a breakthrough: investigators said theybelieved that a pressure vest was restricting pilots breathing and that narrowoxygen hoses were either leaking or not delivering enough air.

The Air Force ordered pilots to fly without the vest.

But the two pilots who experienced the recent hypoxia symptoms at Langley andHickam were not wearing vests.

Lt. Col. Pat Ryder, an Air Force spokesman, said on Tuesday that after the Air Forcereviews the letter from Mr. Warner and Mr. Kinzinger, an appropriate and timelyresponse will be provided.

The Three-Star General InCharge Of The Missile DefenseAgency Would Go Ballistic On

Subordinates, Bullying AndHarassing Them

His Threats To Strangle StaffMembers Documented:


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It Was Management By BlowtorchAnd Pliers, The Witness Said

He Played Up To Those Senior To HimWhile Abusing His Subordinates

Lt. Gen. Patrick OReilly GETTY IMAGES

A senior official used the term The Beaten Wife Syndrome to describe thesituation wherein OReilly would berate you, make you feel like youre the dirtbeneath his feet, then pay a compliment to rebuild the employee, and later repeatthe cycle.

7.16.12 By Joe Gould, Army Times [Excerpts]

The three-star general in charge of the Missile Defense Agency would go ballistic onsubordinates, bullying and harassing them, and he mismanaged his office, according toa recent Defense Department report.

Lt. Gen. Patrick OReilly engaged in a leadership style that was inconsistent withstandards of senior Army leaders and a violation of military regulations, according to aninvestigation and report by the Defense Departments Inspector Generals office.

OReilly, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, has worked in missiledefense for more than a decade, including two years as the agencys deputy director.Since November 2008, OReilly has headed the organization, which received $8.4 billionin fiscal 2012 and is responsible for developing, testing and fielding layered defenses

against ballistic missiles.

OReilly, according to the 21-page report, yelled at subordinates in public and private,demeaned and belittled employees, and behaved so poorly that six employees quit, thereport states.

Describing one of the many incidents in the report, a senior official testifiedOReilly told him over the phone, If I could get my hands through the phone rightnow, Id choke your f---ing throat.


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The report found that OReillys leader-ship style was inconsistent with DefenseDepartment 5500.7-R, the Joint Ethics Regulation, and Army Regulation 600-100,Army Leadership, saying he failed to treat his subordinates with dignity and respect.The report, obtained and first reported by Foreign Policys blog The Cable,recommends Army Secretary John McHugh consider appropriate corrective action.

According to Richard Lehner, a spokesman for the Missile Defense Agency, OReillyremains the director of the agency, and his status is unchanged. George Wright, anArmy spokesman at the Pentagon, said in an email that McHugh had yet to make adecision in the case.

OReilly, in the report, attributed the negative perceptions to a series of unpopulardecisions he had made. He said closures led much of his staff to move involuntarily orresign. He also said he sought to eliminate 1,300 contractor positions to cut costs, andhe canceled several major projects.

Investigators interviewed 37 witnesses, the majority of whom testified OReilly was

brilliant, the report said, and by several accounts performed well in a challenging job.

However, his interpersonal skills were by many accounts sharp-edged and caustic.

One witness said of him, As leader, as a director, whatever, hes the worst. He wasdescribed by a witness as conde-scending, sarcastic, abusive. It was management byblowtorch and piers, the witness said.

Another witness described his personality as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, saying he playedup to those senior to him while abusing his subordinates.

A senior official used the term The Beaten Wife Syndrome to describe the situation

wherein OReilly would berate you, make you feel like youre the dirt beneath his feet,then pay a compliment to rebuild the employee, and later repeat the cycle.

In one incident, OReilly berated one of his employees in a hotel corridor for fiveto 10 minutes because the person had arranged lodging at a hotel which had theword resort in its name. OReilly believed it would look bad if it became publicthat members of the agency had stayed at a resort.

He demanded the employee admit to the mistake, shouting, You f---ed up, youtell me you f---ed, you admit you f---ed up.

The witness does not use profanity, according to testimony but was forced to state, I f---

ed up. By the employees account, OReilly never apologized for the incident but laterthanked the employee with a directors coin.

Witnesses also described OReilly as loudly berating senior staff members in public andprivate, attacking them on a personal rather than professional level.

OReilly is said to have berated an Army colonel for a typographical error on a chart.


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He just shredded the fellow in front of this audience of about 200 folks, said onewitness, adding OReilly denigrated employees, saying, Youre doing the country adisservice. You dont know what youre talking about. Youre unethical.

One senior official noted four instances in 2009 in which OReillys behavior had beenabusive.

OReilly proceeded to curse me out and angrily, irrationally tell me how inept Iwas and that he could f---ing choke me.

Other times, the witness said OReilly called him a dumb f--- and in separatesenior staff meetings, an ignorant ass and a just a moron who hed gladlychoke.

DANGER: POLITICIANS AT WORK


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