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 The Death of Two Young Army Captains The bodies, both American and Iraqi, continue to accumulate in the desert. When I run across news stories about the lives and deaths of our soldiers, I take special note. Capt. Jeffrey "Toz" Toczylowski (Army Special Forces) was notable for the degree of planning he put into his own funeral arrangements. Everything from the script of an email to be sent to friends and family notifying all of his death to a $100,000 blowout party in Las Vegas paid for by his estate. Story. Captain Travis Patriquin's death caught my eye due to the simple yet insightful powerpoint presentation he created on how to deal with the Iraqi insurgency. His idea: instead of training Iraqi army units to go out and kill their fellow citizens, dump our resources into local Iraqi police units drawn from the neighborhoods they shall protect. When the US entered Iraq to topple the regime, there was no plan to deal with an insurgency. Criminal negligence by Donald Rumsfeld. All subsequent ad hoc plans developed by the Pentagon have been rubbish. The situation gets worse, not better, with each passing day. The one workable plan I have seen to deal with the insurgency was created by a guy recently killed by said insurgency. How ironic. 12/18/2006. Add Comment Permalink
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