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Newsjock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-11-07 05:07 PM Original message |
Pentagon to end limit on total active-duty time for Reserves |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-11-07 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
1. So basically the reservists can be changed to fulltime indefinitely |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-11-07 05:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Yes, but it costs a lot more |
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wakeme2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-11-07 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
2. so you can be away from your real job 24 months at a time |
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Monkeyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-11-07 05:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Companies already laying off |
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harpboy_ak (437 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-11-07 06:12 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. They can't lay off reservists on active duty |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-11-07 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
3. There it is! I predicted this yesterday: |
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Ezlivin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-11-07 05:15 PM Response to Original message |
4. "[T]he change would have been made [regardless]" |
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KingofNewOrleans (650 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-11-07 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
7. So, basically, the Guard has just been |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-11-07 06:06 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Bingo. (n/t) |
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Morgana LaFey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-11-07 06:11 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Yeah. Won't this be a GREAT recruiting tool for the Reserves? |
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neoblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-11-07 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
11. Enlistment Age Change... |
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MGD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-11-07 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
12. They'll be calling up prior service next. I can hardly wait. |
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Roland99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-11-07 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
13. I think it's time for a nationwide Dem activist effort to setup recruiting tables at Fundie Churches |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-11-07 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
14. The draft by any other name... |
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ShockediSay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-11-07 11:54 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. How far away do you think the real (draft) thing is away |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-12-07 12:33 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Not very. |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-11-07 07:24 PM Response to Original message |
15. So this little legal quibble no longer applies?? |
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NobleCynic (991 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-11-07 08:26 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I don't think it applies |
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