Posted on 09/22/2004 2:04:26 AM PDT by Former Military Chick
"I guess I just believe in equality."
WHAT ARE YOU? A LIBERAL?
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We pray that Asia never has to live in a world where madmen take away her life because she is a free American.
Iraq did have chemical weapons, and a few have been used against US forces fortunately the insurgents didnt know how to use them properly.
I have been hearing a little about the recalls. They have been recalling personell for specific slots in which there was a shortage in iraq according to their mos. They are calling people back because they need those people to do the job they were trained for.
That leaves three possibilities.
A) the story is inaccurate about the young ladies mos.
B) The story is a made up lie.
C) There is a need for chemical specialists in Iraq.
Whereas I wouldn't put it past a reporter to screw up or lie to me, I just don't smell that here. Leaving a third and rather interesting option on the table.
Is there such a right?
If there's a right to free speech, freedom of worship, not have troops quartered in your home, not incriminate yourself, etc; then there's most definitely a right to a family. And as I'm certain that you could point out that some people are sterile and therefore can't enjoy such a right, I could just as easily point out that some people ar mute and therefore can't enjoy speech.
I don't know for certain, but I'm willing to bet that the majority of enlistments in the Services are recent high school graduates, about 18 years of age.
I know the British educational system is different - I don't think there is such a thing as high school - but I guess the equivalent is the GCSE.
What's the British Army, or the Royal Navy or RAF's recruiting policies?
Scary to think that our courts could be so idiotic, but it is indeed possible. Lofty ideological notions about "equality" can't override real world biology. Men don't get pregnant, period. And I hate the touchy-feely nonsense of couples who tell people that "we're pregnant". Men can be "pregnant" by 100 different women at the same time, and it still wouldn't affect their ability to perform military duties.
Why do you use the word forfeit? The choice is that persons decision. She could have become pregnant at 15 and "given up" the "right" to a college education. She/he, at the ripe age of 17, could have made any of a myriad of decisions which could have had dire consequences on "rights" and abilities later on in her/his life. I'm sorry, but we need to teach that choices have consequences. One may choose to serve their country. So serve it.
This is the outcome of the "equal right" of females to serve in the military. One day, sitting in the residue of a failed democracy called the United States, some liberal historian will ask "what were we thinking?"
Dude, read a bit more carefully. She was already out. She didn't want to be called back up. Big difference.
She was not "out".
You are not "out" until you are discharged from the service.
She had only been released from active duty but still owed obligated Reserve service time. The sole purpose of the Reserves is to have a pool of trained individuals available for recall to active duty when the need arises.
It is all there in the contract that you sign when you volunteer for the U.S. Armed Forces. She should read her enlistment contract a bit more carefully.
Hope not! I thought liberals believed in superiority for designated races/genders/ethnic groups/occupations/etc.
I would choose B if the story was from CBS. Lacking that I would go with C.
You are not 'out' until you've been discharged. That's a fact.
Here in the States you can enlist at 17 years of age. I seriously considered that
"I'm a really sensitive person, and they're all yelling at me, and I'd just go back and cry," she remembered. "I was trying to fail so they'd send me home."
Nice job, Private Benjamin. Maybe the Army wasn't for you, after all.
Ive seen Army females get knocked up to get out of a 30 day field exercise.
On the other hand, if your wife got pregnant while on a cruise she'd be in deep doo doo. The reason for that is because every soldier, sailor, airman, or marine pulled from a unit costs the unit in terms of combat power and cohesiveness. You don't do that to a unit that's deploying to combat for something that is preventable.
But it's OK for her to be denied her father? Chauvanist.
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