Veteran furious military plans published

Veteran furious military plans published
Reports reveal capabilities of new robotic airplane

The U.S. military's newest weapon, the Predator aerial drone, has been all over the news this week, with descriptions of its speed, payload and altitude capabilities, along with information about just who will be operating them, and where. That, according to a Korean War veteran, explains why the enemy is laughing at the U.S.

"Effective war strategy includes surprise, bewildering and befuddling the enemy with a secret weapon. Not in letting him know exactly what your military plans are and how you will carry them out. You hit them and exit. Chances are they will not be so quick to re-attack knowing this could happen again," Chaplain Austin Miles told WND.

"I was totally astonished to see the full details of the new Robot Air Squadron including an exact blueprint as to what it is, as published in the East County Times, California, and all over the world by the Associated Press. This is absolutely the dumbest thing I've ever heard of!" he said.

Reporters hardly can be blamed for telling a story when it's announced by the government and carried in such publications as the Air Force Times and to a lesser extent in the Army Times.

But Miles questions what are the decision-makers thinking when they announce to the world, including any enemies awaiting their opportunities, the military's exact capabilities.

"The story details how it works, when it will be flown to Afghanistan for first deployment, then when it will be flown to Iraq where the fleet will be housed (including where and the number of feet it occupies), and even where the control centers will be located in Iraq that launch and guide them as well as the speed they can fly and at what altitudes they can reach along with the dimensions of the aircraft," he noted. "What's more, the published blueprint shows exactly where each function of the drone is located on the aircraft. The enemy does not even have to take the time to try and figure it out. They can immediately plan their offensive against it. This, of course, helps protect the enemy from harm."

Miles, who is paying the price in health problems now for his exposure to mustard gas during the Korean War, said the United States has lost the concept that in war, the goal is to remove the threat.

"We should go in, without mercy take out that enemy, and say, 'Don't do that again,'" he told WND.

The published reports told anyone willing to read that the Reaper can fly twice as fast and twice as high as the Predator, which already is in use. And the reports confirm the Reaper can carry 14 air-to-ground weapons, or four Hellfires and two 500-pound bombs.

"It's not a recon squadron," Col. Joe Guasella, operations chief for the Central Command's air component, announced. "It's an attack squadron, with a lot more kinetic ability."

"How did such stupidity become such a part of our national psyche?" Miles asked. "No wonder the enemy is laughing at us. I personally would laugh at such dumb-witted actions of an enemy.

"This is one furious veteran who paid a life-altering price for serving our country," he said. "We should have painted a bull's-eye on it."

Miles said his work now is as a chaplain for crisis situations, emergencies, weddings, funerals and counseling in California's Bay Area.