Oh boy! The Lefty Moonbats are gonna eat this up! It’s gonna be like deja vu all over again. Long-haired kids having sit-ins at Military recruiting offices, chanting, Neal Young singing, and guys burning their draft cards…
Wait one…
Oops, I forgot – no draftcards! This is an all Volunteer military! Too bad, Moonbats!
Here is a portion of the story from Fox News. The Bull highlighted the important bit so the teary-eyed can read it clearly.
WASHINGTON �?? The Marine Corps will soon begin ordering thousands of its troops back to active duty because of a shortage of volunteers for Iraq and Afghanistan �?? the first involuntary recall since the early days of the war.
Up to 2,500 Marines will be brought back at a time, and there is no cap on the total number who may be forced back into service as the military helps fight the war on terror. The call-ups will begin in the next several months.
The call-up will affect Marines in the Individual Ready Reserve, a segment of the reserves that consists mainly of those who have left active duty but still have time remaining on their eight-year military obligations.
Generally, Marines enlist for four years, then serve the other four years either in the regular Reserves, where they are paid and train periodically, or in the Individual Ready Reserve. Marines in the IRR are obligated to report only one day a year but can be involuntarily recalled to active duty.
According to Stratton, there are about 59,000 Marines in the IRR, but the Corps has decided to exempt from the call-up those who are either in their first year or last year of the reserve status. As a result, the pool of available Marines is about 35,000.
The deployments can last up to two years, but on average would be 12 to 18 months, Stratton said. Each Marine who is being recalled will get five months to prepare before having to report.
You know, the more I think about it the more I think a mandatory two year period of service, (active duty – six more as reserve), should be required of every American youth right after High School. No college exemptions, no excuses. Male and female alike. If you have a child already, you still go. If you are pregnant, you go when the child is one year of age. No matter what, you go.
Methinks this would level the playing field. No more claims of wars being fought by the lower class for the upper class. No more claims of racism or sexism either. Every person would know what it is to serve their Country and learn discipline before they hit the Real World. Methinks that we would see the numbers of university graduates climb straight up along with the grades of said graduates. Society would become much more polite and much more concerned with those in need. Everyone would lose their fear of the gun and learn to cherish the Constitution and the Freedoms it guarantees. People would begin to pay more attention to what is happening within our Government and demand 100% accountability from our elected officials.
Yes, all-in-all The Bull thinks this would be a good thing. Even for the Moonbats.
Bull, out.
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