Operation BedSheet - shutdown

[GURPS]

CITIZENS CLAIM PENTAGON FORCED THEM TO SHUT DOWN CHARITY FOR DEPLOYED SOLDIERS

A Virginia woman has shut down a website for a charity operation meant to help American troops deployed in Afghanistan in response to what she describes as harassment and intimidation from U.S. military leadership.​

Breitbart News’s Liz Sheld reported in May on how Virginia woman RoxAnne Christley organized an effort to help provide hometown comforts for troops in Afghanistan. Christley heard that an Afghanistan hospital unit lacked clean bed sheets, with some supplies bloodstained or torn. Thus, she organized a charitable effort to send care packages including fresh, clean sheets to help the troops. Fox News broadcast a glowing story about her efforts, called Operation Bedsheet.

McClatchy news service reports that the “military bristle[d]” at this situation, and eventually a military officer contacted a civilian webmaster, demanding that she shut down the website for Operation Bedsheet immediately.
A source who spoke with Breitbart News explained that this civilian woman felt intimidated by the demand and pulled the plug on the website. Christley commented to McClatchy, “The page got taken down because the military harassed the crap out of my webmaster.”

Before directly addressing Christley's associates, military brass used media to counter the embarrassing claims laid out by Christley. They told McClatchy news service that every unit “had a proper supply of bed sheets.” One colonel assured reporters, “I can tell you with full confidence we do not have a shortage of clean hospital bed linen.”

 

[b23hqb]

Maybe a little confirmation on who told her about the dirty linens, or some pictures to confirm it, would probably help her cause, which whether the story is true or not, is still a good cause..

 

[GURPS]

..... is still a good cause..

I am sure this was shutdown because some General in the E Ring was embarrassed ... what do you mean their ain't no clean sheets ..

 

[nhboy]

Link to old news article.

"KABUL, Afghanistan — This spring, a local political candidate in Roanoke, Va., started an appeal for bedsheets to help U.S. MASH units in Afghanistan, which had run short and been forced to put wounded troops on ripped, bloodstained linen, she said.

“Afghanistan MASH units are in GREAT NEED of sheets!” said the Facebook page created to help. “These units treat and house our military service men and women who are wounded in battle and their linens are all but gone! They are using torn, worn and blood and other bodily fluid stained sheets over and over again.”

The story struck a chord with conservative media, and soon RoxAnne Christley’s Operation Bedsheet was on Fox News and Breitbart.com. From there, it spread around the Internet, onto YouTube and blogs.

U.S. military officials in Kabul, though, say no one checked out the story with them. Not only do they have a sheet surplus, there has been no such thing as a MASH unit – mobile Army surgical hospital – for more than seven years. "

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"Christley, in a telephone interview from the United States, said the woman running the Facebook page had killed it because she felt intimidated by Hawk, not because the story wasn’t true.

Also, she said, the appeal had been designed to be a short-term one, as her friend’s husband was coming home and had merely wanted to leave the medical facility where he had worked in good condition for the unit replacing his.

The idea for the linen drive came to her, she said, shorty before her election, after she prayed for divine intervention to ease the stress of running a hard-fought campaign for the Republican primary held May 11 for a seat on the Roanoke County (Va.) Board of Supervisors which, in the end, she lost by five votes."

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"(Col. Theresa Sullivan) The mindset of the medical troops in Afghanistan is such that they would never tolerate bloody, torn sheets for patients, said Sullivan, who is herself a nurse.

“I have been deployed several times and I can tell you that all of us – the doctors, the nurses, everyone – are advocates for the patients, and if they need something for the patients, they let me know, they let the chain of command know, and they aren’t shy about it.”

Medical units here follow the same standards for things like changing sheets as military medical facilities do back in the United States, she said. They are inspected quarterly to assure they are meeting those standards.

Leaders in Afghanistan, she said, must take every such report seriously, and they did this time. “People do identify real issues and if we don’t investigate, we’re not going to be able to fix them,” she said.

The sheets went somewhere. The Fox segment shows Christley boxing some up, and it interviews a representative with a charity that she worked with to ship them.

But their destination may remain a mystery. Christley declined to name the friend’s husband who asked for sheets, his unit, or the medical facility where he experienced the shortage."


lol! Not just "A Virginia women" but a Virginia politician hyping up her campaign rhetoric! You clowns WILL quote Breibart Noise! When will you lemmings learn?