"...if our guys went a week without food to eat...we'd shoot our own officers." An interesting theory. So you look at the "volunteer Army" as sort of a "job" that you can quit anytime if you get tired of it? Don't ry "quitting" n combat- it is the duty of every Officer and NCO to return you to duty by any means necessary- and to stop desertions.
By the way, I once went 11 days with nothinng to eat- I don't recall shooting any officers over it...
You sound like a wannabe armchair warrior. Go back to your stupid video games- the men will take care of this war.
Having spent 20 years in the military...I can say that our guys aren't dumb enough to keep sitting there listening to some Captain or some Major...telling them to starve another week or two or else. And beneath all of the honor and dedication...all of our people live off money. If they were all sitting back at Ft. Hood...getting ready to deploy and the commander said that no one would be paid for the next four months...then he'd have a rough time in assembling the team for deployment. There is life after the military and everyone is now tied to the economy in some fashion. People can't and won't do hard tasks for free. American military personnel are prepared for the fight...but they don't want to be treated like scum. When you look at the Iraqi military...most of the regular army enlisted folks were treated like scum and threatened with death if they didn't accept being treated that way.