From The Mouths Of Troops
Feb 19th, 2007 at 3:06 pm by Maya
Want to know how to support the troops? Ask one:
I am a soldier serving at Fort Hood. I signed up in 2003 for a 5 year contract (I should ETS on 1/15/08). I joined at 32 years old to serve my country. I have been to Iraq twice already and was looking forward to start terminal leave in Dec of 2007.
Now after my unit returned we were told our company was being moved and that all the soldiers had to go to another company. This new company has not deployed in over a year so on paper it looks like we have been home longer.
I asked not to be sent here since I knew I would be stop lossed. Basically the answer was no and too bad.
You see they no longer care about soldiers serving honorably and doing right by us. What they are doing is finding a loophole to extend soldiers in their contracts for a year or more. This in turn makes it look like the army is not short of soldiers.
By the way, Mr. Jacoby, in case Roxanne’s title confused you for some reason, making this guy go back yet again is not support. What he deserves is a fucking break, not your armchair generalling.
