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November 28, 2007
Army Must Be Desperate for Soldiers
by Jack Lee
He's been out of the army almost two years, he's been going to college on the GI bill, he's a newly wed with a nice job and he's even started a part-time acting career and then... and then he get's his official recall to active duty in the Army!
Life can be full of suprises...
This is pretty much akin to a draft, but in a way it's worse because we are recalling veteran soldiers that have already done their duty and they had every reason to think their military service to their country was behind them. Well, in 35 days this young man will be boarding a plane to Ft. Benning, Ga. for retraining and then he's likely off to Iraq...his M.O.S. is (11b) infantry, so it's a safe bet anyone who is infantry goes mostly to Iraq or Afghanistan. Which brings up the question, why couldn't we have invaded some nicer place like the Virgin Islands or Costa Rica? I wouldn't mind spending some recall time on a nice beach listening to marimba music.
Posted by Post Scripts at November 28, 2007 12:32 PM
Comments
Previous call up netted about 5600 soldiers, some had been out over 10 years. This was in 2004.
Posted by: A Sgt at November 29, 2007 11:41 AM