[P3pilotJAX]

"we don't need more troops if their mission remains the same - convoys, checkpoints, patrols. Either use acute US force, or don't add troops."

Also, do you guys realize what you pay an O-4 Navy pilot every year? If you send me to Iraq as a bullet sponge, I still get paid as an O-4 pilot. Makes more sense to give me a 15 year retirement package and hire 4 enlisted infantry guys to take my place who could do a much better job than this old goat.

[AmeriBrit]

If your that unhappy get out and become a commercial airline pilot if what your doing disrupts your family life that much. Both you and your wife should have known what could possibly happen when you got married and decided to have children.

BTW: What is it? 16 years or 19 years? Something else you seem to be at odds about.

For one who says they've been in for so long, you sure haven't learned much, and for you to say you're owed at least 18 months home duty, especially in a time of war, all I can say to that is you should have read the small print each time you re-enlisted by signing on the dotted line and taking the re-enlistment bonus.