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2004-09-18 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-09-18 12:35:12 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 While in Vietnam (1966) I received this order:
"Invol ext 4 months IAW 10 USG 5538 & ALNAV-45-65".Instead of being discharged June 1966,I was discharged 28 SEPT 1966.Net total active duty:
04 years, 03 months,07 days.

Posted by crazyhorse 2004-09-18 11:33:59 AM|| 2004-09-18 11:33:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I call BS on this one.

Posted by 98zulu 2004-09-18 12:21:32 PM|| 2004-09-18 12:21:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Major B.S. is the right call. Reinlisting for another three years will absolutely guarantee another tour in Iraq, Afghanistan, or the Bulkans, reguardless of which unit they end up serving. I ETS next June, and I've been told I have to go back for 6 months. If I reinlisted, I'd be back there TWO more times, maybe three. Sorry logic there.
"We have a whole platoon who refuses to sign,"
Whole platoons don't EST at the same time.

Posted by Homer 2004-09-18 2:55:22 PM|| 2004-09-18 2:55:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 What they're obviously trying to do with 3rd Brigade Combat Team is to bring all the release dates in line so that the unit will be formed an demobilized as a single entity.

At first glance that's my read on it too. This is a major initiative of the Army designed in part to allow families to move less often.

Posted by rkb 2004-09-18 3:41:47 PM|| 2004-09-18 3:41:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 The Army is attempting to "stabilize" personnel in units for a 3 or 4 year cycle. They will train up, deploy, return, and stand down together. This also allows them to keep a cadre of personnel together to rebuild the unit for it's next cycle. The report is true but the point of view is all wrong. BTW - the Army has always had the "needs of the Army" reenlistment option. (Been there - got the lapel pin!)

Posted by mock360 2004-09-18 6:35:25 PM|| 2004-09-18 6:35:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 We can only hope that the better bloggers -- instapundit,com comes to mind -- will soon be able to bring cases like this to national attention. Unfortunately for these soldiers, no national news organization has the ability to report this story in terms they would accept, or maybe even understand, and no blogger has the audience to make such idiocy a national affair. Is this happening elsewhere? And how can we protest REMF pettiness without being co-opted? While we wait, if someone would provide us with a few email addresses, at least we can do something. So who do I write?

Posted by Madprof 2004-09-18 10:41:35 PM|| 2004-09-18 10:41:35 PM|| Front Page Top

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