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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 | 10:15 a.m.
Gov. Jim Gibbons was due back in the state late Wednesday or early Thursday after a weeklong overseas trip that included military briefings and visits with Nevada troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The trip also included a visit to the military hospital at Landstuhl, Germany, where soliders wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq are taken for treatment.
Gibbons made the trip, organized by the Pentagon, with governors of Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri and Texas.
More than 800 Nevada National Guard members are stationed in Afghanistan, and about 150 other guard members from the state are in Iraq, where Gibbons went in May 2008 on a similar trip.
Gibbons was a combat pilot during the Vietnam War and a reconnaissance pilot during the first Gulf War. He retired from the Nevada Air Guard in late 1994.
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As a veteran, I know just how important visits from our leaders mean to the troops. Great to see! Welcome back Mr Gibbons!
The visit to the military hospital was to treat the venereal warts that he picked up in Kabul.
Gibbons a leader? Karzi has a better popularity rating than he does. A non-entity he should have stayed there.
And how much did this little junket by Gibbons cost us in Nevada? He better have paid for this electioneering ploy with his own funds.
Governor Zero has the lowest approval ratings of any governor in the nation. I bet there is not one Nevada soldier in Iraq that gives a rat's azz about seeing him.
what the #@$# is gibbons doing over there???
are nevada taxpayers paying for this bogus trip???
isn't that what our poor poor terribly misguided republican friends always cry???
isn't this all just a wee bit hypocritical!!!