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CWO3 Joseph Cottrell
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If you can not deploy, then you should be separated. The military is not a jobs program, not a social safety net. be ready and willing to go and fight or get out.
I resented all those who had a "reason" for not being able to serve over seas. so take your excuses and hit the road
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PFC Elijah Rose
PFC Elijah Rose
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Did you see that list of reasons? A third are just silly, a third are short term problems, and a third aren't even the soldier's fault. You just want a reason to condemn the bulk of humanity as second class human beings.
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PO1 Don Gulizia
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The "126,000" number is somewhat misleading. I read an article yesterday (can't find it now), that broke down the actual numbers. The vast majority of those non-deployable are temporary issues (i.e. not current on dental, pregnancy, etc.) If I remember correctly, there were only 22,000 that had significant issues that needed to be reviewed by admin/medical boards. 22K is a lot, but 1-2% isn't unreasonable.
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PFC Elijah Rose
PFC Elijah Rose
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But still... The military complains about recruitment and retention one day and chapters out a whole division the next. BTW, how much money do we spend on recruiting and training soldiers only to chapter them out for silly reasons before they have a chance to contribute anything?
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PFC Elijah Rose
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Ah, the military. Complains about recruitment and retention one day, chapter's entire brigade's worth of people the next...
You know, most of these people want to be deployable, and frankly several of these reasons are downright silly and with injuries... well lets just say that the doctor doesn't care about your career all they care about is liability issues. Instead of threatening to chapter all these people how about we just eliminate half these reasons, and you want to prevent lawsuits put a clause in enlistment contracts that says that the soldier can be deployed anywhere under any conditions at any time.
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