"Greed Lured GIs Into Colombian Underworld"

Noticed this article on Yahoo about the guys caught smuggling drugs with US Army aircraft. Talking about the greed that got him started into the smuggling. One thing I don't like is that they have a picture of a Special Forces guy training the Colombian soldiers. The unit that Rosas is from has nothing to do with the mission that the SF Community is responsible for while deployed to Colombia.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050903/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/colombia_rogue_us_soldiers;_ylt=AlLa4sgbfsoD2c4gDOZ6Tau3IxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

By Dan on Sep 6, 2005, 16:06 in Politics & the war.

caslug says on Sep 7, 2005, 11:34:

I just cant believe how.. dumb some of those guys are. Lost 140k USD in the mail because he didnt bother to write down the CORRECT forwarding address. Smuggling Cocaine in BEFORE he had buyers lined up. and other stupid act.

I told my brother-in-law who spent 20 yrs in the Corp and he said, yep, some guys in the military are NOT the sharpest tool in the shed.

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Dan says on Sep 7, 2005, 11:55:

I deploy with the SF guys, I can't say that SF is problem free but they are normally better covered up. That's all that's done, like shown in the picture, train the soldiers and that's it. Some of the guys in the Military in general are idiots. I know one that should have gone to jail but instead, what it was he did was kept quiet and they STILL promoted him. Now he's looking at getting promoted and still doing stupid stuff. Kind of makes me wonder whether they're trying to un-intentionally encourage stupidity. In a way it's like: It's ok if you screw up, But hey, in the mean time, you get awarded since no one will no what you did in the first place. Crap like this is reason enough that I am considering leaving the military, just not sure what I would do yet.

God Bless America!

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Mr. Hollywood says on Sep 10, 2005, 10:15:

Greed The underlying premise of this story is true. Of course, "greed" is what leads people to risk everything smuggling drugs. And I'm sure to a US enlisted man making $20,000 a year the temptation of a big windfall is large.

But why don't we ever see the other side of the story presented as "Desperation leads Colombian Campesinos to Manufacture Cocaine" instead of the whole druglord stereotype?

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aztec says on Sep 21, 2005, 09:41:

Dan this... ..is the modus operandi in every organization whether it be the church or a university. Rather than fire/discipline a screw up to avoid embarrassment the employee is transferred or promoted out of their area of responsibility.

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