Uncle Sam Wants Your Kids-NOW!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

Got this in an email. It is an article by David H. Hackworth. It comes from the SFTT.com website (Soldiers for the Truth). Here's the link.

http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=Hacks%20Target.db&command=viewone&op=t&id=103&rnd=344.9490284777572

Mods, please move if this is in the wrong place.

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By the end of this recruiting year, the Regular Army, Reserves and Guard could fall short more than 50 percent of its projected requirement, or about 60,000 new soldiers. And according to many recruiters, quality recruits are giving way to mental midgets who have a hard time telling their left foot from their right.

Shades of our last years in Vietnam.

“The bottom line is that Recruiting Command is in trouble,” says another recruiter with almost 30 years of service. “The Army has re-instituted ‘stop loss,’ which is basically a backdoor draft. They’re stopping people from retiring or completing their enlistment and leaving the Army. They do this fairly often, mostly in August and September, depending upon how far behind they believe they’ll be at the end of September.

“I believe the Army will have to drastically change what they offer to enlistees to overcome what’s happening in Iraq. The war is ugly, and not many kids want to enlist to be blown up.”

[eleny]

1. My favorite line

"High-school kids are actually running away from recruiters like they were George Romero’s living dead."

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. I liked that one, too

but didn't want to exceed my 4 paragraph limit. Thanks for posting it!

[caligirl]

3. take down the names of the war mongering oakies posted in the

USA Today editorial(calling for pullout by 80 year old owner) and ship their names off to Rumsfeld for immediate drafting. If those red neck war mongers volunteered we wouldn't have to go to a draft.

[mcscajun]

4. And we thought Freepers weren't enlisting...

...they MUST be.

"And according to many recruiters, quality recruits are giving way to mental midgets who have a hard time telling their left foot from their right."

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