Posted on Feb 17, 2018
SP5 Donald Wood
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SFC Retention Operations Nco
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The two are completely separate from each other. The job of the military is not to provide welfare to those who are not capable of serving. One day, I will no longer be able to serve at the capacity required by the military. When that day comes, I will have to leave and make my way knowing that i left it better than I found it.
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MSG (Anonymous) - And your misinterpretation and willfully ignoring the correction doesn't strengthen your position. Nowhere did SFC Jason Boyd suggest that an injury makes for a welfare dependent. Somehow you confuse the few with the many. The point is if you can't deploy for an entire year and doubtful that you will become deployable it's time for you to medically retire or just depart from service. The appropriations for national defense are not to be used to keep individuals off the welfare roles they are to pay Soldiers to fight and win America's wars. That is the point.
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MSG (Anonymous) - Causality violation there, you can't use something a Soldier said after you made your argument as a rational why you made the argument in the first place. There is no reason why a Soldier should be non-deployable for a year without a MEB unless they have one of the exemptions listed. SFC (Join to see) did nothing of the sort you accuse him to do only your twisted interpretation in order to justify your delusional viewpoints.
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SPC David Willis
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When I was in I was sick and tired of seeing NCOs and MAJs and above with no deployments. I also don't think people with legitimate injuries will be swept up in this change, but we've all seen people in uniform who shouldn't be.
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He supported his point repeatedly and you simply kept reasserting yours.
The original question asks about the job market, separating SMs and the responsibility of the military in releasing these SMs onto the job market. In fact, the question was never about who separates or why.
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Lt Col Jim Coe
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Economy aside, if your military duty requires you meet certain standards, physical and otherwise, then you should meet them. If you are unable to do so, then you should leave the military either voluntarily or involuntarily. The Services should make allowances for temporary disabilities and combat injuries, which I believe they do. It's not being unnecessarily harsh, it's being ready to defend the US "against all enemies foreign and domestic."
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It is not about the economy or jobs it is about readiness.
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