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BRAGG BRIEFS
GITS UNITED
AGAINST THE WAR IN INDOCHINA
BRAGG BRIEFS is published in the spirit of tne Declaration of Independence
and the United states Constitution. It is a free press, published by active
duty GI's stationed at Fort Bragz, North Carolina. Bragg Briefs is dedicated
to realizing the vision of. the American Revolution of liberty and justice
for Ali.
SPARE CHANGE?
IRON MIKE MEMORIAL
MARGH AND RALLY
SATURDAY, MAY 15
THE SPIRIT
Mareh with us through Fayetteville . Speaking will be Howard Zinn, acti-
Saturday May 15. Come to Clark Park in vist professor and noted author; Bob
the afternoon and hear some fine OF Rix, military law expert from Washing-
speeches, listen to some fine sounds, ton D.C.; and possibly John Froines of
rap with your brothers and sisters and tne Chicago Eight (if he isn't in jail
set away from General Hay and his IRON MIKE for ona a rig block traffic in
Armed Forces Day. Washington), and more.
The March will start at 11 o'clock There will be plenty of music and
near the Haymarket Square Coffeehouse springtime will be provided free.
and then will proceed down Hay Street. There will be workshops.
Bring your own signs and do your own There will be us.
thing. There will be pecple from all over
The Rally will begin at one in the. North Carolina who have come to show
afternoon in Clark Park which is be- their support for the GI movement.
hind Veteran's Hospital on U.S. 401 Don't miss it.
(turn off 401 on Sherman Drive).
A Question about UCM)
Dear Bragg Briefs,
I am currently stationed with the
US Army at Fort Bragg NC. Recently I ~
Was discussing the UCMJ with a few of
my comrades. An interesting point was
brought up concerning how the UCMJ
treats AWOL cases.
Under the present code, a man is
Ziven an article 15, which usually
carries a fine, provided he was AWOL
for less than 30 days. This practice
puts the man in double jeopardy for
this one offense,
(1) He loses money, from his
pay, for the days he was
AWOL.
(2) He recieves an article 15
for being AWOL, and this
usually has a fine of any-
where from $26-$60.
We feel that if a man goes AWOL,
money should be deducted from his pay,
in accordance with how much he makes
daily, and the number of days he was
AWOL. We also feel that if the Army
punishes this man under the UCMJ, then
no fine should be imposed.
Do you think our argument is valid?
If not, please explain; but if you do
think we have a valid argument, please
give us guidance as to how we can pre-
sent this matter for redress to the
proper authority.
Truly,
Pvt. Richard M. Paire
and and a reply
Reply: Yes, we feel that the argument
is valid---an improvement over the
Army's not only double, but triple
Jeopardy punishment.(You don't want
to be in the Army in the first place.
Most people are either manuevered into
enlisting by the way our society is
set up, or just plain abducted by
being drafted. )
We suggest you send your ideas to
your Congressman, the Senate Armed
Services Committee, Congressman Ron
Dellums (who is conducting, military
hearings), and the Departments of
Defense and the Army.
We suggest you send it to the
President too if you want to, but we
doubt very mch if you'll get any
response at all from anybody but
Congressman Dellums and maybe a form
letter from your own Congressman.
The enlisted man is slave labor
for the Army, and history shows that
Slavemasters aren't very humane people.
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IT TS OUR DUTY TO SUPPORT MAYDAYT
Since 1967, the people have been
protesting the role of the United Sta-
tes in Veitnam. In numerous marches
demonstrations, and petitions we have
voiced our disgust at the way the lea-
ders of this country have conducted
genocide against our Vietnamese brot-
hers-and sisters in the name of domoc-
racy. The responce of the government
has been, unlike the promises in the
Constitution, the ignoring of the exp-
ress will of the people and the use of
Systematic murder of thi Vietnamese
people to enrighen the pockets of the
big businessmen of this country.
On April 24th, 500,000 people band
together with one common goal, the end
of the American agression and envolve-
ment in Indochina. We marched togethe
sang together, and prayed for peace to
gether, but those in power refused to
listen. While we were demanding the
end of the killing in Indochina the de
foliation went on. While we were denm-
NONE OF THEM
WILL BE HERE MAY 15
More important things to do than heroin
Brothers and Sisters,
I am deeply concerned about a
problem which threatens our movement
and unity. This problem is the indis-
criminate preoccupation with drugs
by many of us.
I am not putting down getting high,
I get high just as often as anyone,
but when it interferes with construc-
tive work for our revolution, I am
opposed. i
I'm not speaking merly from obser-
vation, but from experience; having
spent the better part of two years as
a heroin addict. All the time I Spent
hustling for smack could have been
channeled into some constructive pur-
pose.
suit of an unattainable utopla.
My life became an endless pur-
If you can stay doped up and still
benefit yourself and the people around
you,
fantastic!
If not---get it together or the
people will leave you behind.
EM-12th Support
anding the end of the U S envolvement
in the internal affairs of Veitnam .
that had led to the starvation of mil-
lions of people, Nixon enjoyed a day
at Camp David with his family.
Is this government by the people ?
Is this government by majority rule?
When 76% of the American people( by a
recent poll) want the United States to
totally withdraw from Indochina by Dec
ber 31, 1971, but at the same time
Nixon pledges to the country that he
will never withdraw from Vietnam until
he acheives his goal of a "free and in
dependant" Vietnam. He means that he
will keep the present governemt in po
wer in South Vietnam even if he has to
kill every man woman and child in Vei-
tnam to do it. -
There is no way that Nixon and his
government can claim to represent the
people of the United States and there
fore is a tyrany and must be changed.
The destruction of this tyrany need
not be violent but it must be destr-
oyed as well as the power behind it,
The big businessmen of this country
who make there profits off the dead °
bodies of American GI's and Vietnan-
ese weman and children. :
We need not throw out of office the
people in power; we need only to force
them to follow the will of the people,
who by mutual consent, gave Nixon the
power to rule.
This is what Mayday actions are,
a non-violent destruction of the tyr-
anny, a way to force the government to
follow the will of the people,
The President has closed his ears
to the voice of the people and blind-
folded his eyes to their signs of
peace. Mayday will force him to take
his fingers out of his ears and open
his eyes. It will force him to listen
to the demands of the people. It will
prove to him once and for all that the
will of the majority mst be his plan
of actioh and not the phantom of a
"silent majority".
Thomas Jefferson said," Revolution
against tyrants is duty to God."Nixon
is practicing tyranny and it is our
duty to overthrow his tyrannical
power. It is our duty to support
Mayday in every way possible, we must
expose the war crimes that Nixon and
his Brass have forced us to partici-
pate in and to demand the immediate
and total withdrawal of all US land,
sea, and alr forces from Indochina
without any preconditions.
The people of the United States
are ready for peace, they demand
peace and if the government won't
stop the war, then the people will
stop the government.
Mark Rovick
The views expressed in this
paper don't represent the views
of the United States Government
that functions out of the big
white buildings in Washington
D.C.----as if you didn't know!
whodunit? ---mini staff:
Dave Hettick
Brice Stegall
Fred Berardi
Phil Friedrich
Dick Olson 28th CA
Rick Ford USAF
Specialthannksto Joan & Deborah
& Miriam & Dave
Womack
612 QM
612 QM
12th Support
"
4 Million People...
THOUSANDS OF GI's ans
VIETNAM VETS
WERE IN
WASHINGTON
See you at the
IRON MIKE
MEMORIAL
MARCH
S RALLY
COUNTER ARMED FORCES DAY
IRON MIKE IS DYING!
HE HAS BEEN THE SYMBOL OF AN OLD ARMY.
WE COULD NOT BE MORE OPPOSED. =
HE IS A LIFER AND WE BELIEVE LIFE SHOULD NOT BE WASTED.
HE BRINGS DEATH TO INDOCHINA
AND WE WANT TO LEAVE INDOCHINA IN PEACE.
IRON MIKE IS DYING!
LONG LIVE THE SPIRIT OF THE NEW AMERICA!!
Saturday May 15
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MUSIC and SPEECHES
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Three women from Fayetteville jour-
neyed to Toronto, Canada April 9 to 12
to meet with women from the liberated
zones of Indochina. Alyce Forster,
Joan Heyding, and Deborah Rossman
joined 500 other women from the united
States and Canada in talking with six
women from Indochina,T the first such
convention to take place on the North
American continent. Two women each
from North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and
Laos came to speak to us about the
urgency of ending the American war of '
aggression in Indochina.
Over the course of the three days
we were able to talk with the Indoch-
inese sisters in large and small work-
shops, speaking sometimes through
their own interpreters, or through
those of us who could speak French.
Their strength and joy and commitment
to their struggle were contagious.
They sang to us and embraced us, their
faces alive with the beauty of their
spirit. It is this spirit that
enables half the population of Laos to
live in caves to escape the rain of
American bombs, and then to hang a
cageful of songbirds in the shaft of
sunlight at the entrance.
They emphasized the fallacy of the
"Nixon Doctrine" which claims that the
United states no longer wants to be an
international cop. But only the meth-
od, and not the aim of United States
policy has changed, they said. Nixon
is widening the war while withdrawing
troops. He is now using Asians to
fight Asians, turning Indochina into a
neo-colony. "Vietnamization" only
means a change in the complexion of
the corpses on the battlefields.
They warned that Nixon is able to
withdrew troops because he is mech-
anizing the war, using sensitive
ground sensors that trigger almost
With
Local Women Talk Peace
Viefnamese
instant saturation bombings. But it
is the chemical warfare, the biocide
of Indochina, that most threatens to
defeat them.
The numerous facts and figures they
confronted us with were nightmarish:
--the genetic damage caused by
chemical defoliants in Vietnam is six
times worse than that caused by the
atom bomb in Hiroshima.
INDOCHINA WAR
DEAD HONORED
From the opening words of Pete
Seeger, "We are climbing Jacob's
ladder, Brothers in this world," to
the closing notes of the "Taps," the
Memorial Service for All Indochina
War-Dead, held at Washington Nation-
al Cathedral on Friday evening,
April 23rd, was a potent and moving
statement against the insanity of
war and the inhumanity of the con-
tinued American presence in Vietnam.
The service, sponsered vy the
Concerned Officers Movement, and at-
tended by 2500 people, including
over 700 active duty GI~s in uniform
culminated the weeklong activities
of the Vietnam Veterans Against the
War and set the stage for the mas-
sive Antiwar demonstration held the -
next day, April 24th.
The Pentagon, which usually en-
courages servicemen to attend church
in uniform, just hours before the
service declared the meeting at ~
Washington Cathedral a "political
demonstration," and sald that atten-
dance in uniform would be in viola-
tion of DOD directives. The Pentagon
could presumably declare the earth
flat and believe that their word
would be- accepted as natural law. It
was obvious to those who attended
that no court of law could uphold
calling this religious service a
political demonstration. Nonetheless
it took a considerable amount of
courage for 700 GI's to openly vio-
late the orders of the Pentagon, al-
though many did not know of the de-
cision until after the service. Ap-
proximately 20 GI's and officers
from Fort Bragg attended.
Perhaps the most meaningful mo-
ment of the evening came when the
"Voices For The Dead" - a former
Army surgeon, a former intelligence
sergeant, a conscientious objector,
an active duty Vietnam veteran, and
the mother of a GI killed in. Vietnam
read short p®rsonal statements or
poetry lamenting the senseless waste
of human life and the insanity of
this immoral and debilitating war.
CONCERNED OFFICERS MOVEMENT Meetings
Tuesday pemeuee at Haymarket Square
--3,000 tons of bombs are dropped
per day on Laos.
--2 million tons of bombs were
dropped in the last two years over
Vietnam; more than the total number
dropped in W.W.II.
--106 North Vietnamese villages
have been attacked since the bombing
"halt",
--A new napalm with magnesium that
burns at 1,500 to 2,500°C is now
being used.
-~-43% of the forests of Vietnam
have been destroyed.
One by one the Indochinese Sisters
told us their life stories: of famil-
les separated by the war; of fathers
assassinated by the CIA; of husbands,
Sisters, and brothers killed by
American troops; the many My Lai's
that had forced each of them to join
the struggle against US imperialism.
Three of the women were teachers, one
a professor, one an obstetrician and
One woman who had been imprisoned and
tortured for six years.
There was enthusiastic applause to
a letter of solidarity from GI's
United. They spoke of the courage of
GI's who refused to go on patrol or
who turn their weapons against their
officers. Over and over, they. stressed
their solidarity with the American
people:
"We recognize the commitment of
third world peoples and youth to fight
oppression. We wish our American
sisters and brothers a spring of
success. We wish health and happiness
to you and your families. United we
will win."
We attended the conference as rep-
resentatives of Women's Emancipation,
a women's group in Fayetteville.
Anyone interested in joining W.E.
or in rapping about the conference
can contact us at Haymarket or call
485-5725.
GOs Siti OK
There has been a rumor circu-
lating around Fort Bragg about a
recent Supreme Court decision con-
cerning applying for Conscientious
Objector Status. The rumor goes
something like this: That a man in
the military. cannot file for a CO
discharge or non-combatant status
unless he registered as a Conscien-
tious Objector with his draft board
before he went into the military.
THIS RUMOR IS NOT TRUE!
ARMY USES SCARE TACTICS. AGAINST WACS
The WAC Detachment here at Fort
Bragg is presently at an all time
low level of moral because of a CID
investigation on drug use and gay-
ness among the woman in the company.
The extreme paranoia stems from
the coercian being used by the CID
in trying to get statements from the
women in the company to be used as
"evidence" against other WACs.
Two WAC's who were released from
the Army 3 months ago on 212's told
us that the reason for thier dis-
missal, and the high level of fear
in general, is the Army's acceptance
of even a statement from a single
person as grounds for court-martial
or 212 proceedings.
As more women are writing state-
ments, hoping to save themselves,
the WAC's who are being written up
are then writting statements on the
WAC's who made statements against them,
The way it's going now, there mayT soon
be no WAC's left at Fort Brage.
The Army's investigation stems
from its fear of the way some of the
WACS were getting together around
their gayness. The military is making
a special effort to separate gay WACS
because the Army knows if they can
get together around their gayness,
they can get together against the
military.
Straight WACs are easy to keep
separated because they are forced
(by society in general and Army con-
ditions in particular) to compete with
each other for men. Gay WACs have to
stick together to survive--both emo-
tionally and physically.
If the Army doesn't stop hassling
the WACs here at Bragg they are all
going to get it together---gay and
straight alike, and then CID will
have something to worry about.
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: ALYCE FORSTER HAS BEEN AN ARMY
: WIFE FOR THE FIFTEEN YEARS OF HER
; MARRIAGE. HER HUSBAND ALBERT IS
AN E? APTER 22 YEARS IN THE SER-
: VICE. THEY HAVE BEEN STATIONED IN
: GERMANY FOR 3 YEARS AND AT FORT
: CAMPELL AND FORT BRAGG. HER HUS-
BAND IS ON HIS SECOND TOUR IN
: VIETNAM. ALYCE AND FOUR OF THEIR
: FIVE CHILDREN DECIDED TO REMAIN
: IN THE HOUSE ON POST THAT HAD
: BEEN THEIR HOME FOR 2 YEARS.
STAYED FOR 7 MONTHS AFTER SFC
: FORSTER GOT HIS PCS. FINALLY THE
: ARMY INTIMIDATED THEM INTO MOVING.
: BRAGG BRIEFS INTERVIEWED ALYCE
ABOUT HER DECISION TO FIGHT THE
: ARMY AND HER ULTIMATE SURRENDER.
THEY
My husband cleared post in various
places, and when he left, I asked him
if he had taken care of everything.
He said yes, so I assumed he had. We
received no orders to leave quarters,
and my husband said just sit there,
and don't worry about it, so I sat
here from October to April.
To be honest with you, I had no
intentions of moving. I could have
moved to housing supplied at other
posts, like Ft. Campbell or Ft. Riley
But last time my husband went to Viet-
nam I got quarters at Ft. Campbell, ~
and they were horrible quarters, with
seven mice a night, and roaches, I
mean like wall to wall roaches.
I just didn't want to move, that's
all there is to it; it's a hassle.
And another thing, it was almost in-
possible really, because he had 3
months T.D.Y. at Special Forces and
3 more months in Texas for language
school, and when he came back they
gave us just a few days leave. In
fact, they didn't want to even give
him leave. But he complained until .
they gave him seven days, and I wasn't
going to spend that time looking for
a house. I felt, you know, this man's
going to be gone 18 months from his
family.
The way I looked at it, my hus-
band was sent to Vietnam twice; the
first time he got wounded three times.
You know, this man went through a lot;
he shouldn't have to sit there and
worry where he's golng to put me. I
felt this way: Perhaps I could be the
first to say to the army, "I'm not
going to move. You're sending my
husband to Vietnam, now you should
provide for me. Why should my fan-
{ly be forced to move because of the
actions of the army?" It was the prin-
ciple of the thing really. I just
didn't want to move,
They never would have known I was
there, except one of my neighbors
told on me. I know why, because I'm
politically active. In fact,he told
his children not to come over. Any-
way, I got a call: "Mrs. Forster,
where's your husband?" I said in
Vietnam. They told me I was illegally
in quarters. I said, "I am not il-
legally here. I have been here for
five months, and you have taken
quarters allowance every month from
my husband's pay." They said I had
to move. I said I refused to, and hung
up the phone,
I didn't hear any more until three
weeks later, when the Executive Offi-
cer of the 508th came. I guess they
thought it was very simple, but I told
him I wasn't moving, so they quickly
took him out of it, because the army
gaid that here was this crazy woman,
and she really wasn't going to move.
A colonel in charge of housing
called me. He was wery helpful in
terms of doing anything to help me
move, but he turned nasty when he
saw I wasn't going to. He said, "This
is the first time this has happened;
we can't believe it. You are actually
fefusing to move?7!!" I said, "I'm
not moving." That's when he asked me,
"Mrs. Forster, please, PLEASE, can we
have a little cooperation?" He offered
to ghow me off-post housing lists. I
said I didn*t want to see any lists,
I wasn't moving, and got up and walked
out on hin.
I was given a letter saying that
I was illegally occupying government
quarters. I was given until the 26th
of March to move, and I received the
letter about four days prior to the
26th, Army regulations state that
you are supposed to be given 30 to
60 days notice before you move. .
Then a captain called from the
legal office, and said he was the
lawyer assigned to me, and he wanted
to inform me of my rights. He was very
An Army Wife Fights Back
my case. That was my last hape because
I'd gone all the way up the chain of
command, But they stalled and stalled
because they knew he was leaving.
So I was forced to give up. I feel
so strongly that the Army should make
provision for dependants, that I would
have been willing to go to jail. If I
nad had the money for a lawyer, I ~
would have stuck it out. But they
threatened my husband and children,
and I didn't want them to suffer for
my actions.
They sent my husband over there to
some remote area where he can't even
get a message back, and what is he
supposed to do? How is he supposed to
function over there if he is forced to
worry about his family? Here 1s a man
with 22 years in the army, fighting
for what he believes is right, and he
is liable to be court-martialed because
I refuse to move off post.
And here I am with my husband in
Vietnam fighting this stinking war and
they're going to kick me off post be-
cause I refuse to move from quarters
which were the only place I could stay
with my kids, because I didn't have
any money. They send the husbands to
Vietnam and its unbelievable the suf-
fering that the wives and children are
forced to go through.
Some children just can't adjust to
moving all the time. My son moved
three times in one year in high school
His guidance counselor told him he was
not college material and he just lost
all confidence in himself.
My daughter is five years old and
she had seen her daddy two years out
of her life..In so many ways the army
really messes up families.
The seperation rate of families
when the husband goes to Vietnam is 60
or 70%. Its really hard to take wait+
ing for your husband all that time.
Its physically and mentally difficult
in many ways. Husbands come home, and
they're not even the same person. When
my husband writes, he doesn't even
sound like himself. I don't know
what's going on over there. It's like
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
I asked the Colonel to at least
let me stay until my kids finish
school, and then I would move. Since
I have one child in kindergarten, ~
it would mean 3 trips a day, 5 days
a week to get them to school on post
if we moved. But my problem fell on
deaf ears.
oThey say the Army takes care of its own.
ThatTs a laugh!�
nice. He said that he was supposed to
inform me that they were going to take
legat action if necessary, and I quote,
~even if it means nandcuffing you and
dragging you out of the apartment."
I said, oYou mean physically hand-
cuffing me and literflly dragging me! 7?"
He said the colonel told him I would
be handcuffed if I refused to move,
because I was on government property.
But I am an army dependent, and they
say The Army Takes Care Of Its Own.
That's a big laugh.
I was called in to see Captain Sul-
livan, and when I told him I wasn't
going to move he raised his voice and
Said, "Hell. You are going to move! We
have ways to make you."
Then he showed me this document des-
scribing how they would use any means
necessary to get me out.
He told me, "Your husband could get
court-martialed and you will lose your
commissary privileges and be barred
from this post."
I triedT to see General Tolson. I
felt he would have really understood
I was told thoseT were the rules of
the game. They told me they do every-
thing according to army regulations,
but they use it to their advantage,
like a double standard. For example,
there's a directive that states they
cannot legally move our furniture
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AT 867-1542. :
without written permission from my
husband. The wife has no power of
attorney. But they said, "Don't worry,
we can waive that." According to army
regs, they have illegally moved me.
I told the Colonel, "I get $400 a
month. If I move off-post, there's
no way in the world I can live, eat,
and pay rent and utilities on $400.
My husband will send me extra quarters
allowance, but it takes a good 2 or 3
months before finance in Vietnam gets
cont.on pg.8
GITs United Platform
Realizing that worgls, evers thoughts concerning the many problems that con: -
fromt this nation today are, frankly, of little importance, GI's United, in an effort to ba
part of a national solution to these problenis, lists a platform of priorities that must be .
met if the ideals in the minds of men can ever hope to be realized. ;
: A unilateral withdrawal of military personnel, arms and war materiel that ac-
tivély, inactively or inadvertently suppresses the struggle for self-determination of the
peoples of Indochina remains the primarv issue. Without an end to the vain hope of mil-
itary triumph, without an end to corporate America forcing its markets of overabun-
dance, waste and greed on peoples of other nations, without an end to the much too
real misuse of Americans by Americans, without the cessation of imperialism, the vast-
ly more important question of the survival of the human race cannot be reconciled.
U.S. foreign policv that supports cruel and unjust dictatorships only to ensure
the survival of the American economy and the corporate system must cease, and the
U.S. must begin to support peoplesT struggles for justice and liberation not only in
Vietnam but in nations such as Brazil, Argentina and Angola as well. U.S. troops must
be withdrawn from all foreign countries and an end to the use of GITs against the
struggles of oppressed peoples must be realized. Indochina is the first step.
Then there are the worlds that seem to separate you and me - prejudice and
racism: personal, regional and cultural. The glorification of one human being over
another must be overcome not only on the city streets, but in our own backyards.
The unethical attitudes of business and government that exploit individuals and insti-
tutions must be ended through a more relevant education of the very basic human
values of equality, justice and the right to pursue happiness for all people. Closer to
home, in our military world we want to see an end to the harassment of GI's and a
guarantee of constitutional rights through a democratic army.
Of great importance is an end to the wanton destruction and pollution of the
environment by indifferent governmental and corporate policies with a re-ordering of
national, state and city priorities. We must cease to shuffie the responsibility and real-
ize that pollution begins at home...also ends. There can be no second thoughts.
We must go beyond our own selfish desires, beyond nationalism, beyond revo-
lution and seek to bring about an America where barriers to love and deep human rela-
tionships - assumptions of superiority - are replaced with the principles of equality and
fraternity.
Alyce(cont.from pg. 7)
that straight. So what am I supposed
to do before then?® He told me the
Red Cross would help me.
So I went to see the Red Cross,
and they were very helpful. They tried
to contact my husband who is ina
very remote area.
But the A.E.R. (Army Emergency Re=
lief) was a different story. They take
money from every serviceman every
month. It*s supposed to be for the
dependents if they're in an emergency.
It was the end of the month, and
I had no money to even put down on a
house. Captain Flowers at the A.E.R.
wouldn't @�,�ven see me until the Red
Cross made a special call to him.
WHAT WE ARE AGAINST
1. We oppose the U.S. government's attempt to crush the Vietnamese revoiution.
2. We oppose the economic exploitation of GI's by Fayetteville merchants.
3. We oppose the economic exploitation of GITs by the U.S. government which wonTt
pay GI's a fair wage, but which endlessly gives gravy contracts to war corporations.
4. We oppose the continued use of GI's against struggles of Americans fighting for jus-
tice - blacks, women, students, workers, etc.
. We oppose the U.S. government's support for the brutal wor
Brazil, Greece, Spain, South Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, G
less dictatorships in
temala, Iran, etc.
WHAT WE ARE FOR
. We want GI's to be treated as first class citizens, both by the military and the civi-
lian communities.
. We want GI's to receive full protection of Constitutional rights.
. We want a society where barriers to love and deep human r2!ationships-the assump-
tions of supgriority between races and between men and women-are replaced with
the principles of equality and fraternity.
. We want the United States to begin supporting the truly heroic revolutionary strig-
gles for justice in Brazil, Guatemala, South Vietnam, Angola, etc.
. We want a country where the needs of people for decent wages and fair prices,
clean air and water, and a rational use of resources, overrules the profit instincts of
U.S. corporations.
. We want a country where everyone has the same educational, recreational, and occu-
pational Opportunites that today are the privileges of the rich and upper middle
classes.
Bragg GIs
To Receive
Training
T
GI Counselor Training sessions Will
begin on Sunday, May 16, and will run
for the three or four following days.
They make sure they have a man with
no heart in there, who will not fall
for any story. He is all gung-ho.
The Red Cross had decided I need-
ed at least $250 for deposits on
lights, water, and advance rent. Capt.
Flowers told me I kidn't need the
money, that I could hold off on my
rent, and pay less for food. He called
to check if I was telling the truth
about the rent on the new house, He
treated me like a Criminal!
And then he told me, "I am really
not going to give you the money, I'd
rather wait and see if your husband _
gives it to you." So he finally agreed
'to lend me $160. It's supposed to be
& grant. But I never got the money.
I had to borrow money from my girl-
friend to put down the deposit.
~Still haven't paid my rent. I am wait-
ing for my allotment, and praying they
can reach my husband, so we don't haveT
to starve.
THE TREATMENT ALYCE RECEIVED IS NOT
UNIQUE, AS ANY ARMY WIFE CAN TESTIFY.
ARMY WIVES ARE SUBJECTED TO THE DIS-
CIPLINE AND HARRASSMENT OF THE MILI-
TARY AS MUCH AS THEIR HUSBANDS. THEY
STAY HOME AND DO MUCH OF @HE BEHIND -THE
SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS:
zits united - 7:30 tues.
concerned officers - 8:30 tues.
viet vets - 7:30 tues.
_ 3CENES SHITWORK NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN
.THEIR HUSBANDS ! GOOD STANDING. THEY
SPIT-SHINE BOOTS, IRON FATIGUES, AND
POLICE HOUSING AREAS EACH WEEK SO
THEIR HUSBANDS DON'T GET D.R.'S THEY
ARE FORCED TO WAIT ENDLESSLY IN LINES
FOR MEDICAL ATTENTION IF THEIR HUS--
BANDS ARE E.M.*S AND NOT OFFICERS.
WOMEN WHO MARRY INTO THE MILITARY
ARE BRAINWASHED INTO "CONDUCT BECOMING
AN ARMY WIFE", SO THAT THEIR HUSBANDS
DON'T SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR
INDEPENDENCE.
THE ARMY TELLS ITS TRAINEES, " If
THE ARMY WANTED YOU TO HAVE A WIFE, .
THEY WOULD HAVE ISSUED YOU ONE." BUT
BEHIND EVERY MARRIED MAN IN THE MILI=
TARY IS A NOMAN WHO WORKS FOR THE ARMY
& DAYS A WEEK, WITHOUT MEDALS, PROMO= -
TIONS, OR PAY. ; : os
Brage Briefs
P.O. Box 437
Bob Rix and John Barnum from the Mili-
tary Law Panel in Washington D.C. will
be the experienced counselers conduct-
ing the training.
All GIs and civilians who are inter.
ested in these sessions should call
the GI Counseling Service at 485-
3213, come by the Quaker House at 223
Hillside Ave., or leave their name at
the bookstore at Haymarket Square.
It will be necessary to do some rea
ding and other preparatory work before
the sesions begin. The sooner you get
in touch, the more time you will have
to do this work. The training will emp-
hasize CO, hardship, and medical disch-
arges, and GI rights in regards to Art
icle 15s, Article 138, and offensive
legal action agairist the military.
Rumors g£0 around all the time about
what a GI can do about this situation
or that situation, But there is a real
need for GIs on post who have accurate
knowledge about the problems that guys
face in the military.
There is also a need for civilians
and Gls to staff a permanent GI Coun-
celing Service withall the resourse
materials and legal assistance to
deal with these problems.
Re eet So ae e THIRD CL ASS
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