This is how the US government treats their soldiers...

[bridgit]

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[neuvocat]

1. The strategic problem there

is that keeping the troops out there without any chance for recovery creates insanity.

[Hav]

2. .

Tragic. Another 4 months in that hell after they thought it would be their last day?
That's really fucking with them.

[vincent_vega_lives]

3. that SUCKS sooooo bad.

Fucking cruel and unusual.

[bridgit]

4. agreed...

[free_spirit82]

5. I bet that this is the Stryker Brigade out of Ft. Wainwright, Alaska

When they and their families got the news that they had to stay, Donald Rumsfeld was at Ft. Wainwright catching a lot of heat from the wives, and he basically told their families that they didn't need to get mad at him, their husbands and father's chose to join the military and they should get over it. He pissed off a lot of people that day.

[bridgit]

6. that was rumsfeld's stock response 'it is an all volunteer army', but i'll...

bet you dollars to donuts they did not volunteer to be treated like assholes by their own command structure; they are not volunteer, they were appointed by a duupf that was slipped into office by one (1) vote out of 300,000,000 and they have no right to ill-tinker with the world or the armed forces of these united states for their own personal gain, and war profits

the roman legion was a volunteer entity, but they were also land, property, and title holders...or would be, and so they had a stake in maintaining the empire they inherited, or assumed

our guys are too oft getting little more than a kick in the pants