You're in the Air Force-NO, ARMY!- now.

[trof]

Just on CNN.
Truck driving sergeant just killed in Iraq.
He's not Army, he's AIR FORCE.
500 members of the Navy and Air Force have been dragooned into Army slots to take up some of the slack.
Semi-quote-"The pentagon just had no idea of the intensity of insurgent attacks."

So...your an enlisted guy or non-com in the Navy or Air Force and you're figuring "Well, at least I ain't gonna be 'boots-on-the-ground' over there."

Not so fast, Smedley.
:grr:

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Oh, this just gets suckier by the day.

[seemslikeadream]

2. Yes and I know one of them

He is my friends son. Trained Air Force on the ground! Did they say the name?

[kentuck]

3. I went to a job fair today and both Army and Navy Reserves were there...

So they're trying to find some gulli- uh, brave young men to die for George W Bush...They tell them they are fighting for the country...

[markdd]

4. Vietnam era Urban Legend

Supposed to have happened in Dallas or was it Oklahoma City?

Bunch of newly snagged draftees think they have it made, they got into the Navy instead of the Army. Big burly Marine strides up and says I need 6 volunteers. Six guys get up, he forms them into a line and says "Gentlemen, Welcome to the United States Marine Corps" then he marches them off into a bus for Camp Pendleton.

[BrotherBuzz]

6. That's bogus!

I was a draftee and can tell you from experience - NO draftee ever volunteered for anything! Why do you think we were drafted in the first place?

[markdd]

10. No argument here,

I called it an "urban legend". Probably much more a lesson in why it's always a bad idea to volunteer for anything.

[DemoTex]

11. Here is the way it happened at the Atlanta AFEES station in 1968.

I saw it happen to a roomful of draftees. They lined up and counted off by fives. Every man with the number 5 was told to take two steps forward. The sergeant then said to the 5s, "Gentleman, welcome to the US Marine Corps."

[Ernesto]

14. There were draftees in my USMC boot camp platoon in '65

At atleast one induction center some "funny" NCO asked them: "Anybody here that doesn't want to be in the Army?" The poor guys that raised their hands were informed that they had just "volunteered" to be drafted into the Marines...

[shanti]

5. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

i have 3 family members who are AF/Navy! This CAN'T happen!

[seemslikeadream]

7. I talked with my friend just the other day

Her son is having to wait hours to e-mail.

Airman dies in attack on convoy in Iraq Air Force on the ground!




By Rod Hafemeister
Times staff writer

SAN ANTONIO — An airman working convoy duty with the Army was killed in action July 11 when insurgents attacked the convoy, Pentagon officials announced today. Staff Sgt. Dustin W. Peters, 25, of El Dorado, Kan., is the first airman to die in the convoy support operations, begun earlier this year.
Peters deployed to Iraq from Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., in February. He was assigned to the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing and attached to the Army’s 494th Truck Company at Balad Air Base, Iraq.

The Air Force has been providing transportation specialists to assist the Army, which is short on truck crews. At Little Rock, he served as the noncommissioned officer in charge of equipment support for the 314th Logistics Readiness Squadron.

“We lost a valuable member of the Little Rock Air Force Base team and our Air Force family,” said Col. Joseph Reheiser, commander of Little Rock’s 314th Airlift Wing, in a prepared release. “Sergeant Peters will be missed, but his dedication and sacrifice will never be forgotten.

more
http://www.airforcetimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-30868...

[gratuitous]

8. Well, so glad we don't need a draft

We got all the soldiers we need! Just take them from the Navy and the Air Force. Sure hope none of them terrorists have boats or planes.

[Syncronaut Seven]

9. Wasn't one of those trucks carrying

sailboat fuel was it? Cause that would be downright criminal.

[Palacsinta]

12. Air Force Infantry

That's what my foster daughter, who is in the Air Force (stationed at Sheppard AFB, Texas), has heard it called.

[trof]

13. Friend's daughter in the Air Force.

She's in air traffic control, in Iraq now.
That I could kind of understand. She's with her Air Force unit.
But truck drivers "drafted" from other services into Army slots?
Oh, and thanks for the article about the airman.
That's the guy CNN referred to.
You guys are amazin', as always.

[Blue Wally]

15. And??

Who is going to move all of the rations, beer, uniforms, and supplies to the Air Farce Bases?? They eat too.