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From: Russell L. Ross, lzalbany65@aol.com
Date: 1/29/2004
Time: 3:38:39 PM
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In a message dated 1/15/2004 3:23:36 PM Pacific Standard Time,

jgalloway@krwashington.com writes:

like i say russell, if you had anything worth taking i would sue you for libel and slander and take it all. but you don't. only a couple bottles of blue pills which you need to use more regularly.

----------------- Forwarded Message: Subj: RE: My web Page is now on the 1st page of Joseph L. GallowayWe Were Soldiers=FICTION Date: 1/15/2004 3:23:36 PM Pacific Standard Time From: jgalloway@krwashington.com To: LZXRAY111765@aol.com Sent from the Internet (Details)

like i say russell, if you had anything worth taking i would sue you for libel and slander and take it all. but you don't. only a couple bottles of blue pills which you need to use more regularly.

KnightRidder Washington Bureau, Joe Galloway, We Were Soldiers FICTION

KnightRidder's Military Consultant Joe Galloway never served in the Military In a message dated 1/15/2004 3:23:36 PM Pacific

Standard Time,

jgalloway@krwashington.com writes: like i say russell, if you had anything worth taking i would sue you for libel and slander and take it all. but you don't. only a couple bottles of blue pills which you need to use more regularly.

Forwarded Message: Subj: RE: My web Page is now on the 1st page of Joseph L. GallowayWe Were Soldiers=FICTION Date: 1/15/2004 3:23:36 PM Pacific Standard Time From: jgalloway@krwashington.com To: LZXRAY111765@aol.com Sent from the Internet (Details)

like i say russell, if you had anything worth taking i would sue you for libel and slander and take it all. but you don't. only a couple bottles of blue pills which you need to use more regularly.

Russell L. Ross 1741 Maysong ct San Jose, CA. 95131-2727 408 926-9336

This is the 2nd Rewrite of We Were Soldiers Once and Young, I,m still looking for the 1st, In the 1st. verson Galloway writes Col. Moore was told to stay out of the mountains. I will pay up to $100.00 or more for that article. It was in Military type Magzine, like Soldier Of Fortune also. BY JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY KnightRidder's Military Consultant.

JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY, PLAGERIST, LIAR, CONMAN.

JOE GALLOWAY<< Never WORE a Uniform, No Military training at all.

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Joe Galloway

Joe Galloway "Not just Rumsfeld, but all of his "civilian experts"<<( What Joe Galloway a CIVILIAN Who never wore a uniform )who never wore a uniform."

Posted on Wed, Sep. 24, 2003

How to ruin a great army? See Donald Rumsfeld By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - Armies are fragile institutions, and for all their might, easily broken.

It took the better part of 20 years to rebuild the Army from the wreckage of Vietnam. With the hard work of a generation of young officers, blooded in Vietnam and determined that the mistake would never be repeated, a new Army rose Phoenix-like from the ashes of the old, now perhaps the finest Army in history.

In just over two years, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and his civilian aides have done just about everything they could to destroy that Army.

How will they explain to history the mistakes that threaten to weaken a great nation even as it seeks ways to win the war on terrorism it has declared?

How do you break an army?

You can work it to death.

Under Rumsfeld, by next spring 30 of the Army's 33 combat brigades will either be in Iraq or on their way home from Iraq. Some of them will come home from Iraq and head almost immediately to Afghanistan or Bosnia or South Korea or the Sinai Desert. More than 20,000 Army Reservists and National Guardsmen will be finishing one-year tours in Iraq, and thousands more will be called up to do their year. How many will be willing to re-enlist if they're faced with endless deployments on thankless missions in the far reaches of empire?

You can neglect its training and education.

With an operations tempo this high, there's little time for units to do much more than repair their equipment and send their soldiers home on leave with long-neglected families before it's time to deploy again.

There's no time for divisions to rotate to the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., to maneuver their Abrams tanks and Bradleys and train to win the wars. There's no time for non-commissioned officers - the sergeants who are the backbone of any great army - to go to the schools they need to get better at their jobs and earn promotions.

The Army began to break in Vietnam when the senior NCO's, the grizzled old sergeants who'd seen combat in World War II and Korea and survived one or two tours in Vietnam, were ordered back yet again and chose to retire instead. Or went back and were killed. In their place came 90-day wonders - young draftees selected straight out of basic training, run through a short course and shipped to Vietnam to be buck sergeant squad leaders.

You can politicize the Army promotion system for three- and four-star generals.

Rumsfeld and his civilian aides such as Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith and his military handmaidens have intruded deeply and harmfully into the way the services promote their leaders.

Where once the Army would send up its nominee for a vacant billet, now it must send up two or three candidates who must run the gantlet of personal interviews in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Not just Rumsfeld, but all of his civilian experts who never wore a uniform. What hoops must the successful one jump through? Will it be the tough, bright candidate who's unafraid to speak when he sees mistakes being made? Or will it be the buttoned-down, willow-in-the-wind, can-do yes-man? Your basic Oliver North?

You can decide that you've discovered a newer, cheaper way of fighting and winning America's wars.

Rumsfeld and company have embraced, on the basis of a fleeting success in Afghanistan and a flawed success in Iraq, a theory that all that's needed to win our wars is air power and small bands of Special Operations troops. Stealth bombers and snake-eaters.

On the strength of this, they've refused all pleas for an urgently needed increase in the strength of an Army that has been whittled down to pre-World War II levels of 485,000 soldiers. They still deny that there's a guerrilla war raging in Iraq, where 130,000 American soldiers are trying to keep the peace in a nation the size of California with 25 million people. Because reinforcement would be an admission that Rumsfeld and company were wrong in their belief that war would end quickly, their hand-picked Iraqi exiles would take over and the soldiers would come home in a few months.

Another defense secretary who could not admit he'd erred was Robert Strange McNamara, who, like Rumsfeld, was recruited from corporate America. By the time he did, it was too late.

ABOUT THE WRITER

Joseph L. Galloway is the senior military correspondent for Knight Ridder Newspapers and co-author of the national best-seller "We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young." Readers may write to him at: jgalloway@krwashington.com.

CODE OF KNIGHTRIDDER"S WASHINGTON BUREAU CORRESPONDENTS AFTER BEING SENT E-MAIL ABOUT JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY PHONEY STORY "WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE AND YOUNG, AND NEVER SAVED JIMMY "

KNIGHTRIDDER'S WASHINGTON BUREAU CORRESPONDENTS COMMENT("ooooooo").

JOE GALLOWAY Military Consultant KnightRidder Washington Bureau Joseph L. Galloway, the co-author of the best-selling book, "We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young," has joined Knight Ridder's war coverage team as a consultant. Joe started his career at the Victoria (Texas) Daily Advocate, then worked for UPI in Kansas City and Topeka (where he was statehouse bureau chief at 19) before he went overseas as bureau chief or regional manager in Tokyo (twice), Vietnam (three times), Jakarta, New Delhi, Singapore, Moscow and Los Angeles. Joe served three tours in Vietnam for UPI, beginning in early 1965, and he's the only civilian to have been awarded the Bronze Star by the U.S. Army during that war. He was decorated for rescuing wounded American soldiers under heavy enemy fire during the battle at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley on Nov. 15, 1965. At U.S. News, his cover story on the battle at LZ X-Ray, published in late 1990, was awarded the National Magazine Award. E-mail Joe at jgalloway@krwashington.com

WHEN MR. GALLOWAY IS READY TO PROVE THAT WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE AND YOUNG CONTAINS NO FICTION IN A COURT OF LAW, AS OF NOW HE'S AFRAID TO DO ANYTHING, IF HE DOES HIS PHONEY LIFE WILL BE EXPOSED. THE GLOVE HAS BEEN CAST DOWN, MR. GALLOWAY IS A PLAGERIST,LIAR, SOME OF HIS PICTURES OF LZ X-RAY HAVE BEEN ALTERED TO MATCH THE STORY "WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE AND YOUNG,"

Joseph L. Galloway didnt rescue Jimmy and the Bronz Star should be taken from him.

Joseph L. Galloway "Jimmy was wearing NYLON Combat Boots", these were never issued to the 1st Cavalry Division when they Deployed to Vietnam in 1965.

So Mr. Galloway anytime you ready to prove We Were Soldiers isnt Fiction, I'm ready to prove that it is.

Persons below were sent E-Mail about Joe Galloway' Plagersim and Fiction. EDITORS Clark Hoyt Washington Editor Mark Seibel Managing Editor International John Walcott Bureau Chief Beryl Adcock News Desk Chief Frank Greve Consumer Affairs & Science Editor Robert A. Rankin Government & Politics Editor Renee Schoof National Security Editor Steve Butler Foreign Editor James Asher Investigative Editor Crystal Davis Night Editor Tish Wells Web Editor

NATIONAL CORRESPONDENTS Seth Borenstein Health & Technical Issues Robert S. Boyd Science & Technology Drew Brown Pentagon and the Military Sumana Chatterjee Congress Joseph L. Galloway Military Affairs Ron Hutcheson White House William Douglas White House Jim Kuhnhenn Congress

Jonathan S. Landay National Security Subject: RE: KnightRidder Washington Bureau, Joe Galloway, We Were Soldiers FICTION Date: 1/7/2004 2:50:14 PM Pacific Standard Time From: jlanday@krwashington.com Reply To: To: LZXRAY111765@aol.com CC: BCC: Sent on: Sent from the Internet (Details)

Please dont send me your rubbish anymore. thx

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National Security and Intelligence Jonathan S. Landay, national security and intelligence correspondent, has written about foreign affairs and U.S. defense, intelligence and foreign policies for 15 years. From 1985-94, he covered South Asia and the Balkans for United Press International and then the Christian Science Monitor. He moved to Washington in December 1994 to cover defense and foreign affairs for the Christian Science Monitor and joined Knight Ridder in October 1999. He speaks frequently on national security matters, particularly the Balkans. E-mail Jonathan at jlanday@krwashington.com

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"IF YOU WANT A GOOD FIGHT...." Soldier Of Fortune September 1983 vol.8 no.9 page 22-29.

BY JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY never served in the military

KnightRidder's Military Consultant.

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