Why is my neighbor (Active duty in Army) doing his best to stay out of Iraq?

Question

He voted for President Bush and now complains about being called up (From Reserves) and sent to Iraq for 15 months. Why does he not want to go?

We live 3 miles from Selfridge base. It's a four Sq mile base with alot of military.

Answer 1

It looks like we have just caught you in yet another lie.

You claim you live in Michigan - a state without any Army bases - but also claim that your neighbor is active duty.

Answer 2

They prepare, exercising and learn. they might upward push up at 6 am and have a severe-high quality 5 mile morning hike. Then consume breakfast and have a 4-5 hour coaching exercising. Then have a later afternoon snack, seize some hours of sleep then carry out a little nighttime firing workouts. Then hike returned to the the barracks, getting there at 10 pm. Or they spend an afternoon watching some action pictures on Russian or chinese language techniques and then discussing all of it. understand what punji sticks are? or you will get advised to study a e book, such as sunlight Tzu. lots of exciting stuff in that. in the event that they do no longer look to be doing that, they may be doing different duties like portray, figuring out on up rubbish, peeling potatoes, and so on. relies upon upon how plenty hardship you get into. you're no longer likely to get to sit down around doing no longer something.

Answer 3

Selfridge is an air force base, and how can he be active duty if he is called up from reserves. You are getting more and more annoying as the days go by.

Answer 4

How can he be active duty in Army and be called up from the reserves, he is one or the other not both. Methinks this is not true and your telling porkies.

The 425th infantry and TACOM and Other army units stationed at Selfridge include an active Army Readiness unit, Army Reserves, and a unit of the Army Guard (Rangers), so what Unit is this guy with, if he is Army Reserves then he is not ACTIVE Duty, if he is Active duty he can not get out of going somewhere if deployed. So which is he Active or Reserve ???

Answer 5

If given a choice, nobody wants to go to combat.

We do it because it is our duty. If given a choice of staying home or going to work, most people would want to stay home, but they have an obligation to their employer and to take care of their family, so they willingly leave their home to go to work. Look at a firefighter, they do not want to run into a burnng house, but someone has to get the job done. It is the same with a Soldier, we go because it is our obligation, not because we want to.

Reserves are the same, but they leave more then active duty does because it is a lifle-style change for them to go, less so for active, which I think contributes to the fact the PTSD is higher in the Reserve Components.

So not wanting to go does not mean not supporting the mission. You go when you are called.

As for the Bush comment, I did not hear Kerry say we would leave Iraq either, just it would be different.

Answer 6

My husband returned from his first tour in Iraq in July, he is a 32 year Army veteran, and he is returning to Iraq next year. I hear about this quite a bit. No one WANTS to go, but honorable soldiers are willing to do their duty for their country. They know that it is not enough to wear the uniform, earn the pay and sport the rank. Service overseas during wartime is also part of the job. My opinion: your neighbor is not an honorable soldier.

Answer 7

In boot camp I was interviewed for a specialty. I can remember the first question of the guy's mouth. "Do you want to die for your country." I told the guy that I joined the Navy to serve my country. If that means giving up my life, I'm not afraid to die. But it makes sense that a guy want to stay alive and keep fighting. So dying for my country isn't the first thing on my list of things to do tomorrow morning before breakfast.

My first duty station out of "A" school was Vietnam. After a few months in the States, and a sojourn at OCS, and a little more specialized training, so was my second. My third was in the Pentagon, but my fourth... Vietnam.

But a guy who spends his whole life taking what this country provides, and who commits to serving his country... who publicly swears an oath and ends that oath with , "... So help me God," and then can't honor that commitment is about as un-American as a lousy troll who tries to foster anti-American sentiment on this site.

Answer 8

Some people don't want to go... but the fact of the matter is that they signed an oath of enlistment, just like I did.

I guess some people are cowards and do things for themselves, when in reality, joining the armed forces is putting the military before yourself.

Answer 9

No soldier wants to go to war. this is where your thinking is all messed up. They know they have a duty and responsibility to go though. You missed out on that somehow when you were growing up. People who have that sense of duty, it runs real deep in them. Some people have it, some don't, the ones who do Join the military, the military seeks it out, cultures it in their recruits. Its something very much worth having. I feel sorry for those that don't have it. They are missing out on something very precious indeed. I'm sorry to say also, that if you don't have it by now (and judging from your previous posts slamming on our military men and women) you never will and unfortunately, you are one of the ones whom I feel sorry for.

Answer 10

We have only your "word" that this neighbor exists,

but seeing as you are an old hand at trying to be a troll I doubt it.

Drink up your Lemon Juice old wrinkly time to bed down in your favorite dumpster at the back of "Big Boys"