Once you take the oath to serve and protect you are honorbound to fulfill that oath. To take ten years of the benefits, then to refuse to deply now, is unconcionable. I can have respect for those who fled the draft but I can't respect a person who sucks up all the bennies then refuses to go.
Well considering the fact this guy did a tour saw some things that in his opinion weren't right and now doesn't want to participate in it I dont blame him.. In fact its borderline simian to say during his ten years of service he didn't pull his weight.. (bradley mechcanics get worked plenty even in peacetime let alone war hours...)
review his current contract make him payback any bonuses and dishonorable discharge him... with minimal jail time say 30 days..
to example him and scapegoat him for the failed campaign in Iraq is pathetic.. (you should be looking at the extended tours 2 tours and 3 tour soldiers (morale busters) when if rumsfield committed the troops in the first place we would have only 1 tour.. but who counting the military blunder factor)
I too think the chaplains comments were amusing also but considering that Bradley mechcanics are few and far between they most likely needed him for unit readiness.. then he springs the CO status on them (last minute) and they get a mouthful from their higher ups for allowing this to happen.. (crap rolls downhill)
to the comments about potatoe peeling its clear you have no time in service as said earlier E-9's dont get there for being ROAD... given the time frame he got out he most likely had a full college edu + war college just to make Sgt Major (E-9) so with respect stfu..
In response why dont you post some reup papers and get over there yourself.. that way you can see first hand what war is all about.. (deafening silence anyone)
I ship out every day my taxes are paid to fund this war.
this is copout and lily livered..
if thats the case some 200 million of my fellow americans also are in the war zone along with you.. what a laugh..
DoctorYo