Care to Connect

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Recognizing that we all have special charities that we support during this time of the year, however, if your charity includes supporting our men and women in the military then, you may find this AT&T program interesting.

AT&T Care to Connect

AT&T Inc. has announced the launch of "AT&T Care to Connect" in all AT&T retail locations nationwide. The program allows shoppers to give $1, $5, or $10 toward prepaid phone cards for military members. AT&T will match the total dollars collected by the program through Dec. 21, doubling the amount of phone cards issued to the troops via customer giving alone. Phone cards generated through AT&T Care to Connect will be distributed to troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and other overseas regions between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

• For more information, log onto www.att.com.
• Note, the cards can only be purchased at an AT&T Retail Store location.

Thanks to CK for the information on this.

Where is leadership when you need it?

"The beauty of the military is every commander has to make decisions about what to prosecute and how," Markley said. "Every commander out there is deciding, 'Is this the highest priority for my attention?' "

Even now, he said, he has not been asked by his superiors to take action to safeguard the tests.

"Nobody has come to me and said, 'Solve this problem,' " he said.

The quote above are from Colonel James C. Markley, the senior officer in charge of the testing center.

If the Army knew of cheating going on, if the cheating contributes to personnel being improperly trained and readied for operations, why should this continue?

Markley, by his own statement, does not see this in his scope of responsibility. That might be part of the problem.

What do you think?


Read the full Boston Globe report, the result of five months of investigation here.