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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (63117)	8/22/1998 1:40:00 PM
From: Richard Habib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Gerald, appears you have 6 or so military acquaintances. I've worked with 100's. (Besides which I was a Coast Guard and Navy Officer). Also it appears you've met the few you have in the U.S. I meet them over where they're working. I suspect your fighter pilot friend would be happier if he got to shoot things down. While, it's true they could probably use a little more money and a little more time off that the price you pay for getting to fly fighters. The mistake you make is that by phrases such as "our soldiers" you express a outmoded sense of things. I've worked in many joint operations with other countries. Professional soldiers are more interested in the job they do than in the country they do it for. That's what it means to be a professsional soldier. As regards Somalia, while it's true that in the gulf war military except for a few select units were statistically safer than they would have been training at their U.S. bases and Bosnia is nearly a risk free environment - Somalia was actually dangerous. I was there from before a significant U.S. participation thru the effective withdrawal of U.S. forces. Most of the people I worked with were reasonably satisifed to be there considering the conditions. Good professional soldiers are not particularly concerned with the politics of their mission - only the execution of it. Rich