[lt.america]

Involuntary deployment? Give me a break. I didn't know they had classifications. Obviously many folks are biting at the bit trying to deploy, but a deployment order is not voluntary or involuntary.

This great piece of PR follows the last great piece I read about an Air Force TechSgt who was at near 300 pounds and lost about one hundred on deployment. Air Force was bragging about that one too.

[El Gato]

Involuntary deployment? Give me a break. I didn't know they had classifications. Obviously many folks are biting at the bit trying to deploy, but a deployment order is not voluntary or involuntary.

Actually they can be, in the sense that they'll put out a call for individual volunteers with specific AFSCs or MOSs. That's the way my nephew went the first time. This time his unit was deployed. Yes he had "orders" both times, but in the first instance, they asked him before cutting those orders, in the second they got warning orders and then call up orders as a unit.