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"Desertion rate of 8% a year"

Too Low.

1 posted on 06/18/2007 4:41:47 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
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2 posted on 06/18/2007 4:43:14 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch (US Constitution Article 4 Section 4..shall protect each of them against Invasion...domestic Violence)
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Calling BS on this one. Low pay in the military doesn’t turn you into a drug cartel hit man. Someone must be promoting a new book.


3 posted on 06/18/2007 4:51:53 PM PDT by gotribe ("Truly, America is my favorite slave." - King Fahd Bin Abdul-Aziz, Jeddeh 1993)
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To: SwinneySwitch
Until receiving a raise this year, rank-and-file soldiers made $330 a month, less than many police officers.

Compares pretty well with my $81/month for U.S. E-1 pay in 1965.

Soldiers are also routinely denied access to rights such as family and medical leave while they are forced to work horrendous hours and humiliated by their superiors, said former Gen. Jose Francisco Gallardo, a military scholar.

Yeah; sounds just like what we had to "endure" for said $81, at boot camp.

4 posted on 06/18/2007 4:53:49 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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Until receiving a raise this year, rank-and-file soldiers made $330 a month, less than many police officers.

Compares pretty well with my $81/month for U.S. E-1 pay in 1965.

Soldiers are also routinely denied access to rights such as family and medical leave while they are forced to work horrendous hours and humiliated by their superiors, said former Gen. Jose Francisco Gallardo, a military scholar.

Yeah; sounds just like what we had to "endure" for said $81, at boot camp.

5 posted on 06/18/2007 4:53:58 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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Well thank goodness our border is secure to prevent any of those criminals from coming into the U.S.

/s

6 posted on 06/18/2007 5:09:36 PM PDT by Reagan is King (Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

$330 a month for a private doesn’t sound that low. Hardship alone won’t make a man desert and it certainly won’t turn a man into a mafia hit man.

What might cause anyone to desert would be needless humiliation, and hardship that was perceived to be for no purpose, and what certainly might do it would be the suspicion that your superiors have already themselves sold out.

I knew a fellow who worked with the Mexican air force as a civilian technician, and he says he always knew there were certain flights they should not ask questions about, certain cargos they should not be interested in. He was encouraged by his family to get out, because to stay, they believed, meant he would eventually be corrupted. Not by mafia, but by his own bosses. He eventually did get out, because he believed it too.


8 posted on 06/18/2007 5:36:56 PM PDT by marron
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To: SwinneySwitch

Mexico is devolving into Hamastan.


9 posted on 06/18/2007 5:55:03 PM PDT by happygrl (Dunderhead for HONOR)
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Yet another example of failure by the Mexican “Government”!


10 posted on 06/18/2007 5:59:19 PM PDT by pulaskibush (USA, founded by tolerant Christians. USSR, founded by intolerant Secularist.)
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Wouldn’t happen if they were in Iraq fighting along side their so called ally.


15 posted on 06/20/2007 2:42:38 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (Amnesty GOP members are betting on a Clinton nomination, to get their support back!)
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