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Originally Posted by Boreas

Do you remember the E-6 that President Obama invited to the SOTU this year? He was wounded while on his SIXTH deployment! How can we do this to people?

John

What people do not realize that during the 2000s (the aughts) when we had two wars going the military (the Navy anyway) was downsizing at the same time.
I remember people getting kicked out at 10 years because they could not make E-5 but at the same time a war was going on. It was really strange...and they started to pull Navy sailors off of ships to fill Army billets in the Middle East.

Plus there was a back door draft of National Guardsmen being sent in to Iraq who never thought they would be there.

The saddest thing to me was that in 2004 Bush sent Army people from Korea to Iraq....some of those troops had been in Korea for 12 months already and were supposed to go back stateside then they got sent to Iraq for 12 months!!

Sadly there were people in that group that got killed and never made it home to the States...I remember that many of these Army guys were in Ramadi and that was very dangerous. I used to x-ray them sometimes at Al Taqqadum.

Of course everyone today is gaga over Bush's paintings.....


that shit pisses me off.