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I didn’t read that anybody refused to go. Do you not appreciate the fact that, although that’s what we get paid for - much more, what we are trained and prepared to sacrifice for - we are people with families, too, and having to say goodbye to our spouses and children 4 months before we thought we’d have to is a real heartbreaker? It sucks, and your statement is pretty callous, don’t you think?

No I don't think I was being callous. I am sick and tired of hearing our service members moan and groaning about be posted to a war zone. That is what service members do. They understood this when they took the Oath to defend the United States against all enemies. If they didn't want to do that then perhaps they should have chosen a different career path. Every time I pick up a paper or turn on the T-V there is some one slobbering and bawling because they are being sent to a War zone. I don't remember this as having part of the scene when I and my fellow service members left for Korea 1950 to 1953. It was what we signed up for, it was our duty and what we signed up for. I remember my Brother in Law telling my sister before they were married that his first duty was to the Navy, he had signed up to serve in the Navy, after that she and the family were the next priority. He went from Seaman Recruit to Captain, in the Second World War, and it was never a problem, every time he left port my sister knew it was his job and that was what he did. Times they are a changing.

It looks to me like the modern fighting member, now wants to go into the service, serve 20 years behind a desk, retire and go to work for the Post Office. People now days put their family's first,and the service second, somewhere they have gotten it twisted.