7/25/2012
By David Bellow
Over 35 vehicles
belonging to U.S. Soldiers were stolen or vandalized this past week at the Army
National Guard Armory on Westheimer Parkway in Houston, TX
I encourage the local
media to bring attention to this targeting of Texas Soldiers so that the thugs
who are doing this will be brought to justice.
Help Us Catch the Thugs!
Over the last 2 weeks, myself and hundreds of Houston area Texas Army National Guard Soldiers drove nearly 1000 miles one way in a military vehicle convoy to get to Dona Ana Camp in New Mexico (just north of El Paso, TX). It was our Annual Training. The Battalion that I am a Sergeant in, HHB 1/133rd FA, is a Field Artillery Unit. We camped out in the desert for 11 days and part of our Battalion mission was to shoot three thousand 105mm rounds into a nearby mountainside.
Over the last 2 weeks, myself and hundreds of Houston area Texas Army National Guard Soldiers drove nearly 1000 miles one way in a military vehicle convoy to get to Dona Ana Camp in New Mexico (just north of El Paso, TX). It was our Annual Training. The Battalion that I am a Sergeant in, HHB 1/133rd FA, is a Field Artillery Unit. We camped out in the desert for 11 days and part of our Battalion mission was to shoot three thousand 105mm rounds into a nearby mountainside.
While we were away training, thugs vandalized and/or stole
at least 35 vehicles belonging to my fellow U.S. soldiers at the Houston, TX
Armory on Westheimer Parkway. Many of these soldiers have deployed to Iraq
and/or Afghanistan multiple times. Thankfully, the armory that I was parked at
on W. Rankin Road in North Houston was not hit by these thugs.
This is not the first time that this has happened either.
This has happened in the past in Houston, TX while soldiers were away for
annual training. This is troubling because it means that this is not a random
event and there is a group of thugs who are specifically targeting U.S.
Soldiers in Houston, TX. This group knows that National Guard Soldiers go away
for 2 weeks every summer for annual training. They know that the vehicles of
training soldiers will be in the parking lot for 2 weeks. They find out when
the annual training is and they victimize U.S. soldiers once they leave for
annual training.
This is despicable.
I encourage anyone with knowledge of who did this to please
call the local authorities.
I encourage the local media to bring attention to this
targeting of Texas Soldiers so that the thugs who are doing this will be
brought to justice.
It is a probabilty that the thugs are affiliated with that crazy pastor that was prevented from defiling the funeral by those Texas A&M Aggie students not very long ago. He has a history of hostility to our militarty and has done similar things in tbe past.
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