Anyone in cyberspace who has lost a son or daughter in this Iraqi war & another son gets orders to go?

Answer 1

Not a son or daughter, but my brother was KIA in Baghdad a little over a year ago. At the time he was on his second tour and my other brother was on his first. He had less than 36 hours left of his tour when he was killed by an IED. Since both of my brothers have the same MOS, they were together, but not in the same tank. He seen his brother killed. The surviving brother had shortly under a month left to serve on that tour but was able to leave almost immediately to attend our brothers funeral. He is back there now on his second tour.

Answer 2

Army regulation required that any soldier who has lost an immediate family member in combat be given the option of 'opting out' of a combat deployment.

IIRC there has only been one instance of a soldier accepting to 'opt-out' - and she had to be talked into it by her chain-of-command. (She wanted to complete her tour of duty.)

Answer 3

in cicrumstances like this, the person with orders DOES have the right to request reassignment to a non combat area.

This can only happen if a parent or sibling is killed in combat.

Answer 4

let them go.....more dark people need to be raped! talk to a counter recrutier they should be able to help, become a conteous objecteror they should help u. just like wattada.