Remains of US Soldiers Dumped in Landfill, Air Force Admits

Vatic Note:  Hmmm, seems Kissinger is still running our government.  He said, as the big fat khazar that he is,  that all military men were simply fodder for his wars and that was all they were good for.  Guess he is showing us that is now the prevalent attitude.   This is why all khazars in power must be brought down rather than fighting some bogus world war they planned, financed and orchestrated.   We can see it happening every day,   troop movements like a chess game planned with everyone at the top level knowing how the game will be played and who will win  and who will lose.  They want a simultaneous revolution overthrowing our republic form of government so they can take over like Stalin and lenin did, and then use the war for massive profits like they did in Nazi Germany while also gaining power as well as wealth. 

Well, as for the revolution they want, the powers that be have not been able to get the right to use their guns against anyone and they have not been able to get the left to be AFRAID of the right... so they would then do something to those on the right.  They are not getting the revolution they need which would divide the country which they desperately need to stay safe themselves.    I am bringing this up for a reason.   RSN has come up with an article that feeds fear and anger.  (See below)  If I did not know what I do about this agenda,  believe me, I would  be buying into what they published... but because I know,  I am not buying into it.
The article they did was how the airforce has dumped American soldiers bodies into land fills etc.  And that would affect both right and left against the government and our military.   Dems have as many soldiers serving in theatre as the right does.  Remember Russia and the revolution that was instigated against that nations government and overthrew it and murdered the entire family including children, along with 60 million Christians since taking over the nation, these are the khazars we have wanting us to be their cattle slaves ZOMBIES (remember the movies?) .  

Well, in the protocols that is the objective, its to infiltrate the government, do acts so horrific that the people will rise up and overthrow their government and voila, the khazars are standing ready with someone we don't know about right now, to arise into a leadership position to then take over the government and then we would end up exactly like Russia did.  I can assure you murdering and executing with no trial  was the norm, and not the exception, long lines for just stupid toilet paper and other necessities including food.  It was awful and that is why an underground economy became the norm and the people  willingly dumped them.... also they will legalize pedophilia if we allow them to globalize.  We are seeing how pervasive it is at the time of the crap heap we call  "our elite". What a misnomer that is. .  

Well, with a global system, you would not be able to have an underground economy at all and they passed all the bills they needed but have not enforced, until they get that revolution and control of our country, then they will enforce the food bill and the NAIS domestic animal bill which means no food at all unless you behave.  They NEED OUR GUNS AND THEY NEED US DIVIDED AND AGAINST OUR OWN MILITARY SO THEY WILL BE AFRAID AND NOT STAND WITH US.  THAT IS WHY THEY RELEASED THIS HORRIBLE ARTICLE THROUGH THEIR MAIN STREAM PRESS WHICH MEANS THE BANKERS ORDERED IT.  Its to turn the country against the grunts who have nothing to do with any of this.   Its the infiltrated khazars into the upper levels of the pentagon.  

Notice the violence being increased on the streets against students, and add on this, coming out at this very moment, and then add on the fact that we have CIA black ops troops coming back from Iraq and elsewhere and they are getting ready to black ops violence and blame the people for it here and thus declare martial law which suspends the protections we have in courts against such tyranny.    These bad guys are not moving their agenda as they had planned and are way late in achieving their goals.   They are beginning to panic (especially now that the sheriffs are fully waking up) and will push this if we support it because they convinced us our government is bad.  Its not the government, its the people in it that have infiltrated it, like Iceland, we must purge them from not only our government but forever, from our country.  Have them go back to Israel.  

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/421-national-security/8338-focus-remains-of-us-soldiers-dumped-in-landfill-air-force-admits

By: Craig Whitlock and Greg Jaffe
Date: 2011-11-10

he Dover Air Force Base mortuary for years disposed of portions of troops' remains by cremating them and dumping the ashes in a Virginia landfill, a practice that officials have since abandoned in favor of burial at sea.

The mortuary in Delaware, the main point of entry for the nation's war dead and the target of federal investigations of alleged mishandling of remains, engaged in the practice from 2003 to 2008, according to Air Force officials. The manner of disposal was not disclosed to relatives of fallen service members.

Air Force officials acknowledged the practice Wednesday in response to inquiries from The Washington Post. They said the procedure was limited to fragments or portions of body parts that were unable to be identified at first or were later recovered from the battlefield, and which family members had said could be disposed of by the military.

Lt. Gen. Darrell G. Jones, the Air Force's deputy chief for personnel, said the body parts were cremated, then incinerated, and then taken to a landfill by a military contractor. He likened the procedure to the disposal of medical waste.

Jones also could not estimate how many body parts were handled in this way. "That was the common practice at the time, and since then our practices have improved," he said.

Gari-Lynn Smith, portions of whose husband's remains were disposed of in the landfill after his 2006 death in Iraq, said she was "appalled and disgusted" by the way the Air Force had acted. She learned of the landfill disposal earlier this spring in a letter from a senior official at the Dover mortuary.

"My only peace of mind in losing my husband was that he was taken to Dover and that he was handled with dignity, love, respect and honor," Smith said. "That was completely shattered for me when I was told that he was thrown in the trash."

An Air Force document shows that the landfill is in King George County, Va. Officials with Waste Management Inc., which operates the landfill, said the company was not informed about the origin of the ashes. "We were not specifically made aware of that process by the Air Force," said Lisa Kardell, a spokeswoman for the company.

The Dover mortuary changed its policy in June 2008, Jones said. Since then, the Navy has placed the cremated remains of body parts in urns that are buried at sea.

Asked if it was appropriate or dignified to incinerate troops' body parts and dispose of them in a landfill, Jones declined to answer directly. "We have recognized a much better way of doing things," he said. "Let me be emphatic: I think the current procedures are better."

The disclosure of the landfill disposals comes in the aftermath of multiple federal investigations that documented "gross mismanagement" at Dover Air Force Base, which receives the remains of all service members killed in action in Afghanistan, Iraq or elsewhere overseas.

On Tuesday, the Air Force acknowledged that the mortuary had lost a dead soldier's ankle and an unidentified body part recovered from an air crash; had sawed off a Marine's arm so his body would fit in his casket; and had improperly stored and tracked other remains.

The Air Force disciplined three mortuary supervisors after an 18-month investigation, but has not fired any of them, despite calls from lawmakers and veterans' groups for tougher action.

"What happened at Dover AFB exceeds on many levels the nationwide anger that resulted from reports of mistreated wounded at the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 2007 and reports of lost or misplaced graves at Arlington National Cemetery," said Richard L. DeNoyer, the national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. "You only get one chance to return our fallen warriors to their families with all the dignity and respect they deserve from a grateful nation — and that mortuary affairs unit failed."

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta on Tuesday commended the Air Force for the "thoroughness" of its investigation. His spokesman, George Little, said Wednesday that Panetta is leaving "open the possibility for further accountability" and that "there is no excuse for this kind of incident to occur."

Under military culture and regulations, the armed services have a special obligation to care for fallen troops and their families. All troops killed overseas return to Dover in flag-draped transfer cases and are honored in what the military calls a "dignified transfer" ceremony.

Smith,spent more than four years trying to find out what happened to her husband's remaining body parts before she learned of the landfill disposal. Sgt. 1st Class Scott R. Smith served more than 16 years in the Army and volunteered for dangerous duty defusing and destroying bombs in Iraq.

He was killed when stepped on a pressure plate that triggered a buried bomb.

Initially, Gari-Lynn Smith said she was led to believe that her husband's entire body was returned for the funeral. When Dover officials told her that his body was too badly mangled for an open-casket funeral, she said she became worried that some of his remains had not been buried with the casket.

"I knew he was blown up and had amputated limbs, but I was not getting a straight answer from the Air Force about what had happened to his body," Smith said.

She received her husband's autopsy report in 2007 and learned that some remains had not been found in time to include in the casket.

Shortly after Scott Smith's death, his parents had filled out a Defense Department form giving the Air Force permission to "make appropriate disposition" of any partial remains discovered after the body was buried, according to Pentagon records.

Gari-Lynn Smith said she believed that Dover officials would treat the remains with respect. The deceased soldier's parents declined to comment.

In April, Trevor Dean, a senior official at the Dover mortuary, informed her in a letter that some of her husband's body parts were cremated and dumped in a landfill in King George County. In the letter, Dean listed her husband's first name incorrectly, an oversight that Smith saw as yet another sign of disregard for her spouse.

"This has been nothing but a nightmare," she said.

Dean was formerly the top civilian deputy at the mortuary. The Air Force said he received a lower pay grade and voluntarily accepted a transfer to a lesser position in September as a result of separate allegations of mishandling of remains. He still works at Dover.

In an e-mail Wednesday, Dean declined to comment about the Smith case or the landfill practices. "We are pleased with the positive change in the program," he said in reference to reforms the Air Force says it has implemented at the mortuary.

Relatives of other service members whose remains were mishandled at Dover said Wednesday that they were shocked to learn of the errors.

Stan McDowell, the father of Capt. Mark R. McDowell, who died in an F-15E fighter jet crash in Afghanistan in July 2009, said the Air Force informed him Saturday that it couldn't account for a four-inch piece of flesh that may have belonged to his son.

"They were very apologetic, and it was all heartfelt," Stan McDowell said. "We know Mark was a Christian, and that he's in heaven. So we look at it like — okay, so maybe there are some remains that did not end up in his burial site. . . . That's not really a concern to us. And the reason is: We know Mark is separated from his body, and that he's in heaven."

The Air Force said it was uncertain whether the missing piece of flesh belonged to McDowell or his friend, Air Force Capt. Thomas J. Gramith, who was killed in the same jet crash. The other remains of the two airmen are buried together, under the same headstone, at Arlington National Cemetery.

Patricia O'Kane-Trombley, Gramith's mother, said she was assured by the Air Force's promises to ensure that something like this never happens again. "I don't like mix-ups. Don't get me wrong," she said. "If Tom were here, he'd say, ‘What can we do to make this better?' "

Staff writer Christian Davenport and staff researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report.

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