erm, ok Preggers,
my post was inspired by my own military service and those of others who I am more and more coming to know
and you are right, I am advocating the current army becoming little more than rabble
the war machine as it stands now is rarely being used to "defend us"
and more and more soldiers(including now former NCOs) are coming to believe this
a lot of these guys are getting dishonorable discharges for not wanting to go on
their 3 or 4th tour of combat duty! and its just wrong
one of the things the army most uses to justify this is that they make it very hard for you to justify changing your status to that of
conscientious objector
after you have been in combat
this is completely backward, many NCOs agree, Obama could help change this, but he simply does not care
I am going to try to not say anymore on this issue,
it is a deeply personal one for me