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Do your time, get called back.

I'm glad my Ready Reserve time for the Coast Guard was only 8 years.

Date: 2004-11-30 06:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chrissawyer.livejournal.com
I remember when it was getting started, the Navy was really trying to get me back. Not really "forcing" me, but vigirously trying to talk me back in.

Ugh.

Date: 2004-11-30 06:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ceruleanst.livejournal.com
Do you suppose sending 50-year-olds to Iraq to die is Bush's Social Security solution?

Date: 2004-12-01 10:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hydra-velsen.livejournal.com
No offense but I'd rather 50 year olds die than 18 year old kids.

Then again, 18 year old kids are far more likely to follow an order that might result in them getting shot. A 50 year old actually figured out that he can get killed by that age.

Date: 2004-12-01 01:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ceruleanst.livejournal.com
These people are not fit for combat. They have ailments that would, in a more sensible time, excuse someone of any age from service. It's bad enough we're dumping undertrained, underequipped guardsmen over there, but some of these people can barely even run. It's like throwing money at a problem, but with lives instead of money. We might as well draft mannequins: it would be more moral, and we could still sit here and pretend that just by filling a uniform and being in Iraq they're going to achieve something.

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