Gates just went off on whoever leaked this info to the Washington Post and hopefully when he finds the idiot we’ll see their head hanging on a post.
If Clinton hadn’t cut the standing force to 10 Divisions from 18, there wouldn’t be such a stress on the military.
is this extension just for active duty and not Guard?
Be interesting to see what my son thinks about this. He enlisted in the Army yesterday.
For an hour or so before the funeral until the remains were escorted out, a group of Patriot Riders stood at attention with American Flags lining both sides of the street.
God loves us so much more than we deserve to have sent men such as these to protect us.
My son’s better half is taking this pretty well. Be prepared for the news to look for families who are going to voice a lot of negative feelings over the whole thing. They will ignore those of us who rock along.
We need to reinstate the draft. 2 reasons:
1. America was better (in a number of different ways) when most young men served their country, and we always had enough troops for whatever arose.
2. The Middle East. All of it, and everything about it. It will never succumb to freedom and democracy as we know it, nor will the shia-sunni enmity fade away.....I don’t give a rip about democracy/freedom for muslims because they are incapable of it..........the other certainties islam and muzlims have brought to the fore require severe action now, to avoid the nuclear action sought by what at the moment is passed off as uniquely as Iranian aspirations, completely forgetting what has been called “the islamic bomb(s)” already owned and in missile/other deployabilities by our “ally” Pakistan.
Let’s quit kidding ourselves......
This is a bad new policy.
They could get more voluntary months if the Troops got more breaks from serving over in that sheitehole.
Who the heck is designing this strategy?
This will be hard on active duty families back here waiting for their loved ones safe return.
We sure need to expand the active duty Army ASAP.
Did you hear about this?
The administration refuses to pay the price and boost end strength and the poor soldiers and their families are paying the price.
So now we have the situation where fewer kids have the guts to serve their country and those few have to bear even greater burdens.
Disgraceful.