One year away from their families and risking their lives is hard enough - but extending them to 15 months is just wrong and further strains them and their families. It's a callous disregard for those men and women just because our leadership hasn't got the courage to boost the force levels and pay the price needed to conduct a war.
As some anonymous Marine wrote on a wall in Fallujah recently, "America's not at war; the Marine Corps is at war. America's at the mall".
Apparently, that goes double for our brothers and sisters in the Army
I would not discount a single thing you’ve said, not at all.
The active duty people that I know are perhaps the best people that I know. They are selfless and intelligent, considerate and warm and kind, and I feel they have a better concept of the value of life than the rest of us.
It may be that the higher-ups have already figured out that the draft will have to be returned. But, imagine what the outcry would be if they tried it now! They did away with it after the last unpopular war. Come to think of it, war’s been a way of life for practically all my life. What’s up with that?