At Camp Cedar II, about 185 miles southeast of Baghdad, a guard shack was recently defaced with "GDN" for Gangster Disciple Nation, along with the gang's six-pointed star and the word "Chitown," a soldier who photographed it said.
The graffiti, captured on film by an Army Reservist and provided to the Chicago Sun-Times, highlights increasing gang activity in the Army in the United States and overseas, some experts say.
Military and civilian police investigators familiar with three major Army bases in the United States -- Fort Lewis, Fort Hood and Fort Bragg -- said they have been focusing recently on soldiers with gang affiliations. These bases ship out many of the soldiers fighting in Iraq.
"I have identified 320 soldiers as gang members from April 2002 to present," said Scott Barfield, a Defense Department gang detective at Fort Lewis in Washington state. "I think that's the tip of the iceberg."
This is absolutely un-fucking-believable! We sent street hoods to liberate Iraq? This is our great American fighting force?
Where is the discipline? I would venture to say that this is a result of the hopelessness that our troops are feeling over in Iraq. The Latinos are just reverting back to a more comfortable mindset. In some ways what is happening must feel like the dangerous life they grew up in, amped up to the hundredth power.
But this must not be allowed to happen. I can only imagine what message this is sending to the Iraqi's. I am pretty confident that they understand the concept of "turf" and what it means when somebody claims that turf for their own. I just have this horrible vision of Latino soldiers performing "drive bys" on the Iraqi citizens that do not respect their boundaries.
This might be a whole new level of FUBAR.
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