With National Guard and Reserves being called up (indefinitely) for Iraq and Afghanistan and involuntary enlistment extensions, is the Bush administration sowing the seeds of a major recruiting crisis for the U.S. military?
In the wake of Vietnam, it took 20 years to recover ... and the National Guard and Reserves were largely spared (to wit: GWB in the Air Guard).
2006-10-19 22:13:36 · 9 answers · asked by Wassana L 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
It demonstrates that many young people DO NOT want a part in any war effort....I salute them..Imagine if the just a few thousand of the 100 000 plus military personnel in IRAQ decided they had had enough, put down their weapons and just came home? What a message that would send to their leaders. The war is a lie, and they are seen only as a number to their leaders. Would IRAQ survive without the military presence? Would the so called treasonous pacifist personnel be all sent to prison if they returned home against military orders? Would the people of the US see these soldiers as heroes for refusing to take part in a lie no more? War is for terrorists, peace is for humans.
2006-10-20 00:32:36 · answer #1 · answered by PS Drummer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you easily have self belief that the size of the pay examine is what activates those little ones to enlist, or do you think of a lot of them do it for God and usa. interior the commencing up of this Iraq conflict many reservists have been given caught interior the midsection, in terms of being sent to conflict whilst all they actually needed became an coaching. at present, that may no longer the case. the human beings getting in at present understand their opportunities of seeing attempt against are exceptionally darn sturdy, subsequently i've got not got self belief that's funds that motivates them. purely the day gone by, in conversing with a recruiter, he advised me they only weren't exhibiting up on the door, like they used to take place. i think this Iraq undertaking is so unpopular appropriate now, that that's rather affecting recruiting. the subsequent step purely might desire to be the draft! does no longer that be some thing. they're doing a number of of stupid issues now, a number of it rather is embarrassing. As a Marine recruit sometime in the previous Vietnam have been given warm, the Marines could undertaking the rank of %to the right 3 recruits interior the platoon, come commencement day. This became fairly an honor, to be chosen out of a entire of sixty or seventy adult males, as between the terrific of the terrific. i became so venerated! at present, they undertaking the rank to any slug, offered he's in a position to tug a pal alongside or a minimum of provide up a attractiveness of a candidate. If that guy is recruited, the slug gets the rank. exceptionally pathetic in case you inquire from me, because of the fact if some thing happens to that undesirable unsuspecting soul, the slug will stay with it, something of his existence.
2016-10-02 11:59:45 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Children do not know how to enjoy life any longer.
Do not know how to join the Army, Navy or Air Force to travel and see the world.
They all think that they have to go to the front lines.
Who want little chidren in the field anyway?
There are other things they can learn before they become a professional and that may take sometime to master.
So why running scared instead of having fun out there on planet earth.
The boys running scared sisters all have to come out.
A real sissy with the young ones calling themselves men in "Planet of Apes" on planet earth.
How embarassing it can be for their parents to raise them up and not looking after the security of their parents back home.
2006-10-19 22:35:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Recruiters met all their goals this year and re-enlistments are above normal. If you join the Military you do so knowing you may have to go to war. If you sign up for any other reason without accepting that as part of the deal, your a fool
2006-10-19 22:32:03 · answer #4 · answered by mark g 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
My daughter just got out of the Army....thank god!!!!.....she would have stayed in if all this crap wasn't going on....joined the Coast Guard, at least she is here in the states, where the rest of them belong......parents used to feel proud when their kid talked about joining the military, now it scares them to death....in the blink of an eye, or road side car bomb, poof, your child is gone....average age is 20 ish.....senseless, that is why no amount of re enlistment bonus even remotely intrigued her, and why sign up bonus' aren't working, who the hell wants to die?...she even took a bust in rank so not to stay in that branch, guaranteeing she doesn't go to S. Korea, where she would have....Thank God!!!!
2006-10-19 22:20:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Germany has a standing army of 130,000 and the population is about 63 million, then American logically should have restricted army for self-defense of say, about, 533,000.
2006-10-19 22:27:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Republicans screw up everything they touch. Religion, America, the military, the deficit it doesn't matter.
2006-10-19 22:49:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bush is ruining the Armed Forces just like he's ruining everything else in America!
2006-10-19 22:22:43 · answer #8 · answered by backinbowl 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
mark g has spoken.
2006-10-20 00:30:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋