Going to get healthy
Just letting people know I wont be posting for awhile. As some of you know I have been sick for the past two years. I am going to a rehabilitation health spa for the next six weeks. I hope it works 'cause I am getting kind of tired of this.
Army_Tanker should be back from vacation tomorrow and should be posting again.
Peace
Greg
Sr. Vice Commander
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Military History
Fifty four years ago today the Russians tested a hydrogen bomb. Check out this
link .It was there way of letting the world know the Cold War was gonna get a lot colder.
News from Iraq.
Here is a
report I read in the Fort Benning community newspaper The Bayonet. The national media would never cover a story like this because it shows how humane our military really is.
Give it a read let me know what you think.
IED Video
Check out this
link. Yes life can get dangerous even when you think you are safe.
Take time to thank a soldier today. They do it so you don't have too.
This
video shows what our boys and girls will be using in the near future to take out the bad guys.
Peace
The Draft
I read this article yesterday. I actually think it is a great idea, Not for the reason written in this article though. American children for that matter most children growing up in the west take every thing for granted. Send our spoiled little children to boot camp and have them do a tour or two in a combat zone and all of a sudden you have some grown ups who know how to appreciate what they have in life.
Peace =)
WASHINGTON - Frequent tours for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have stressed the all-volunteer force and made it worth considering a return to a military draft, President Bush's new war adviser said Friday.
"I think it makes sense to certainly consider it," Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute said in an interview with National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."
"And I can tell you, this has always been an option on the table. But ultimately, this is a policy matter between meeting the demands for the nation's security by one means or another," Lute added in his first interview since he was confirmed by the Senate in June.
President Nixon abolished the draft in 1973. Restoring it, Lute said, would be a "major policy shift" and Bush has made it clear that he doesn't think it's necessary.
The repeated deployments affect not only the troops but their families, who can influence whether a service member decides to stay in the military, Lute said.
"There's both a personal dimension of this, where this kind of stress plays out across dinner tables and in living room conversations within these families," he said. "And ultimately, the health of the all-volunteer force is going to rest on those sorts of personal family decisions."
The military conducted a draft during the Civil War and both world wars and between 1948 and 1973. The Selective Service System, re-established in 1980, maintains a registry of 18-year-old men.
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., has called for reinstating the draft as a way to end the Iraq war.
Bush picked Lute in mid-May as a deputy national security adviser with responsibility for ensuring efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan are coordinated with policymakers in Washington. Lute, an active-duty general, was chosen after several retired generals turned down the job.
