Oy:
Spc. Chris Carlson had been out of the U.S. Army for two years and was working at Costco in California when he received notice that he was being called back into service.
The 24-year-old is one of thousands of soldiers and Marines who have been deployed to Iraq under a policy that allows military leaders to recall troops who have left the service but still have time left on their contract.
“I thought it was crazy,” said Carlson, who has found himself protecting convoys on Iraq’s dangerous roads as part of a New Jersey National Guard unit. “Never in a million years did I think they would call me back.”
Good thing we have an all volunteer army.
America the Stupid….
You start to see now that America has the President who truly represents us.
Dumb as pig shit.
What this guy can’t read? Whoops…maybe he can’t.
Sorry, but you should have learned how, read yer enlistment papers and then:
You should never have believed a single gotdamn word the recuiter told you.
of the cheering, adoring throngs who performed like trained seals at Bush’s speeches. These guys only seem to get pissed off when their balls are put in a vise.
He says:
If his redeployment is the first thing about this invasion that he finds crazy, he isn’t the brightest crayon in the box.
Calling veterans back, throwing them into dangerous situations, without I’m sure the proper training, is despicable. It’s desperate, and it shows the callous disregard this administration has for people, not that the military shows much better even in ordinary situations.
But blaming this guy is also wrong. Please show a little more compassion for the people caught up in this.
As for what this says about an all volunteer army vs. the alternative, the government and the military abused even more people when they were able to draft them. That’s not the answer.
Here, here, Captain Future.
People serve in the military for all kinds of reasons. Though I understand the arguments of those who think any kind of service in the US military is wrong, QED, I also understand that many people who serve do so with good intentions and motivations. A lot join because they don’t have a lot of good economic choices.
Nothing in that article indicates what these guys’ views are on the war or what their political views are in general.
It’s wrong to make blanket assumptions about these guys, and the lack of compassion here kind of amazes me, and not in a good way.
My son-in-law has a good friend from high school who enlisted in the NAVY fresh out of high school in 1999, served four years (and REALLY hated it), got out in 2003, and has just been called back up to the ARMY for deployment to Iraq. I don’t think he’s quite sure what he’ll do, but I think Canada is looking like one of his better options right about now.