Marines want to bring back 100,000 who have been released

[Poiuyt]

Marine Corps will ask thousands to come back

By Gordon Lubold - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Jan 19, 2007 22:23:02 EST

The Marine Corps plans to ask up to 100,000 former Marines released from the ranks since September 2001 whether they would like to come back.

Speaking at the Pentagon on Friday, Lt. Gen. Emerson Gardner, the Corps’ deputy commandant for programs and resources, said many of those Marines had either hinted that they’d like to have re-enlisted at the time they got out or were told outright that no slots were available in which they could re-enlist.

“In the past, we’ve had a number of people who have desired to re-enlist in a particular job specialty, and, unfortunately, there is not enough room in the Marine Corps to keep them on, so we have released them from active duty,” Gardner said.

“But anecdotally, we’re all familiar with people that have gotten out of the Marine Corps, and you talk to them a year or two later and they say, ‘You know, if I had to do it over again, I sure would like to have stayed,’ ” Gardner said.

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Well I'm 54 now. I just wish I wasn't too old to join them. :rofl:

[hobbit709]

1. All my ex-jarhead buddies

say NFW!!!!!

[Medical Speaking]

10. Semper Fi

NFW

[acmavm]

2. Wonder how many of that 100,000 are completely numb from the

neck up?

[roamer65]

3. Travel the world...

all the way to scenic Iraq.

:grr:

Seems to me many ex-Marines may take this appeal as a sort of an insult, especially if they wanted to re-up in the past and were denied.

[Chipper Chat]

4. Baghdad calls!

Sunni weather! Cheap cigarettes! Fight them over there so we dont have to fight them over here!
* needs you for his oil profits! So let's go!

[formercia]

5. Die for a Multinational Corporation

So they can get the Iraq Oil on the Cheap and sell it to us at retail.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Fortunately, my DD214 gives my discharge from the Crotch as 1965.

But, if they revise it downwards and come to get me, they'll have one helluva fight on their hands.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

9. Semper Fi

68-72 myself.....

[Medical Speaking]

11. My DD214

Says 1967 no way Nam was enough for me.

[kenny blankenship]

7. && b'cuz they're so many, we thought: Hey! we'll just TELL 'em to come back, rather'n ask 'em

it simplifies a whole lotta things this way.

[spanone]

8. Exxon-Mobil should put them all on the payroll. That's who they're fighting for anyway.