Quote:
|
Originally Posted by AChimp
I think it's fair. Those soldiers knew what they were getting into when they enlisted.
|
Not really. I knew that this type of thing was possible only after I was already in service. Besides, this stop loss wasn't in place when they enlisted. So they probably thought that, having exhausting all legal commitments, that they would be rotated back when their term of service ended. Even given the fact that they are volunteers, how were they supposed to know that the time they enlisted could be and would be extended? They were honest in their intentions to sacrifice a set amount of time and I imagine that they expected that the government would hold up their end of the bargain and let them out at the close of that time. In other words, I disagree that this type of deceit is what they enlisted for.
Threaded Mode