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May 9, 2008

Return to Sender - Iraq Veteran Gets the Call Again

As terrible as this might sound, whenever someone asks me about enlisting, I'm tempted to encourage them. I figure that the more people who enlist, the slimmer the chances that I'll get called back up. But of course this is ridiculous: No one in their right mind would enlist now, whereas I've already signed the papers.

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May 9, 2008
 

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Just a second, this guy says he got out. What the hell is he getting called back up for then. There is only one answer, it is a lie!
Also for the general public, as of April 2008 56% of the Army Reserve has not been deployed to OIF or OEF. Your media will not dare but that on the TV. On an enlisted Soldiers initial contract he or she will not be deployed more than twice unless they want to. And Stop-Loss is in your darn contact people. Read it.
Also I don't like the fact he says you would have to be crazy to enlist now. Like I said 56% of the Reserves has not been deployed and when you transfer from Active Component to Reserve they can not touch you for 2 years. People there is a lot that you are not being told. I deal with these question daily and to many are clueless on the rules and regulation pertaining to this. Also with the current restructuring of the Army, that is now in effect for 90% of the Army, a soldier will not deploy more than once every 5 years. The exception, there always is one, is combat MOSs.
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May 11, 2008
 
I just listened to a soldier on the radio that has to return to Iraq for his 3rd tour of duty. He was mad that people were not up in arms about the war. He was mad that people were not writing their senator about the unfairness of it all. He said he could not believe how people had forgotten about Iraq and how it is no longer front page news. He was blaming US! He was blaming the American people for having to go back to Iraq!

That really pissed me off. We tried. We protested. We stood on bridges and waved signs. We marched on Washington. Even though the government was not with us and even though the media was not with us, we dissented. Cindy Sheehan stood outside the Crawford Ranch day after day after day. She bought property. Jim Baker convened the Iraq study group. Jim Baker selected George Bush for the Presidency. Jim Baker is responsible for this mess and HE couldn't change anything. What makes this soldier think the American people can help him? We can do nothing. We are powerless.

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May 12, 2008
 
We had been dealing with fraudulent stories by liberals posing as solders and whatever for years and years now.
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May 12, 2008
 
Monorprise wrote:
We had been dealing with fraudulent stories by liberals posing as solders and whatever for years and years now.
And we have been dealing with fraudulent stories from our president for 8 years.

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May 13, 2008
 
falasha wrote:
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And we have been dealing with fraudulent stories from our president for 8 years.
We also were dealing with fraudulent clams by people like for years.
The different is we know the stories by the frauds calming the solders are fraudulent because we check them out.
The same reasons we know the story’s from the president are legitimate for the most part. BECASE WE CHECKED THEM OUT.
It’s not hard to do, determining how plausible they are.

The same reason its not hard to determine how implausible your clam is, simply because we know by virtue of checking it out, that the stories given are plausible not implausible.
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