[dwilli]

Noone, no matter the critical skills has a lifetime obligation to our military. Once the contract is carried out
and the eight years of total obligation is full filled one
is home free.

Military duty is not a lifetime sentence.

[hawkiye]

He signed the contract that allows the military to do this knowing full well they could do it, he is obligated to do it!

[cake_crumb]

I agree with you. I regret my knee jerk reaction to the blatantly agendized CNN story.

Be warned that if this guy is ever quoted again by the media, appears with Hanoi John Boy or on a cable news network to diss the war on terror and or the president, or if he allows himself to become the new antwar poster boy, there' is no reason to respect anything about him or to do anything but deride him. Only time and his actions will tell.

[lepton]

Noone, no matter the critical skills has a lifetime obligation to our military. Once the contract is carried out and the eight years of total obligation is full filled one is home free.

Military duty is not a lifetime sentence.

Legally, that's not true either.

Once you've served, there are circumstances under which you can be called up until like 65 - but that involves very special circumstances.