Army Moves to Stop GIs from Leaving

[101ABN]

yep, its happening again. even my old friends that are still in the Inactive Ready Reserves are getting called back up. these are problems caused by the infamous Rumsfield Plan "Vision 2010". he started the massive cutbacks, reducing the active army to 10 divisions, heck he wanted to have 8 divisions. well here we are, all over the world and not enough soldiers to go around.

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by Raubvogel
Yes, it's true. It's been done in the past also. They did it for Desert Storm. Specific shortage MOS's were hit with stop loss last year, now they are targeting all personnel in units set to deploy. Usually it means a year or so of additional service. I'm lucky, getting out next Tuesday and don't see anything stopping me yet...*crosses fingers*

good luck raubvogel

[Lizking]

They are meeting retention and recruitment goals, some general on the radio said.

[Pongo]

Originally posted by Airhead
It's too bad we can't draft illegal immigrants and send them to Iraq. And homeless bums, too. Of course they'd never pass a drug test, but I'd rather send derelects to war than our children.

Pretty close to what they are doing isnt it? Service for citisenship?

[Red Tail 444]

Originally posted by Airhead
It's too bad we can't draft illegal immigrants and send them to Iraq. And homeless bums, too. Of course they'd never pass a drug test, but I'd rather send derelects to war than our children.

Why not train our criminals to become soldiers? Straighten em out, give them an opportunity to use weapons (again) and we can use the prison space for casinos, rodeos, strip clubs and Shopping Malls.

I kinda believe that a well trained drill sgt. can break anyone down over 13 weeks

[Red Tail 444]

Originally posted by Pongo
Pretty close to what they are doing isnt it? Service for citisenship?

We've done that before, Native American men were granted automatic US citizenship if they joined the US Armed Forces in WW2