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It's getting so that even being shot while making a pass at your commanding officer doesn't get you out of duty.

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The good news is that despite their injuries they've made it to the playoffs in Iraq. The bad news is that the post season over there lasts from 2003 to as late as 2020 or so. It's been hard but that's to be expected when their owners and managers have never played the game.

Perhaps the senators and congressmen that voted for that war ought to be over there taking care of this issue. Perhaps Dubya should take a tour of duty as well, or at least his kids.

kidsizedcoffin: It's getting so that even being shot while making a pass at your commanding officer doesn't get you out of duty.

But the Army still asks them for their enlistment bonus back to cover the medical costs and depreciated ability.

"...but most were assigned to light-duty jobs within limits set by doctors."

Oh, the horror! Getting them back to some level of work after injury. George Bush is the devil, for sure.

This calls for the (SAD, BUT NECESSARY) tag due to the military being strained to breaking point by moronic imperial president.

What Uncle Karl said. He who approves of this war, and will not go and serve, let him send his children in his place. And he shall take all his worldly goods, and shall sell them, and the profit therefrom, that he shall give it to the Pentagon. Thus shall ye know the true war supporter.

/ain't that just like the farkin' Army?

*sigh*

My brother has been hit twice in Iraq and Afghan, and he's going back again in a little while.

/And he's a Ranger medic. No free rides for the docs.

And if they didn't go to Kuwait, they would have been pimp slapped by Zombie Patton.

Gee, how sad...no other organization would act so cruelly...

/can't wait to see tomorrows playoffs

Yeah - that really makes me want to enlist... (As if they EVER have enough people)

Thank God Rummy decided to win this war on the cheap. It's working out so well! I hope his retirement goes swimmingly.

What people need to do is identify the young guns in the White House. Then when they run for office, oppose them.

Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, the architects of this war, served in the Nixon and Ford administrations. The future Cheneys and Rumsfelds are working in the current White House. If you let them, 20 years from now they'll being doing the same things all over again to your children or grandchildren.

Don't say you weren't warned.

Many jobs in the military are not combat, some do not require the person be in perfect health. But the fact they are doing this means sooner or later, they are going to have to bring back the draft.

simpsonfan: Many jobs in the military are not combat, some do not require the person be in perfect health. But the fact they are doing this means sooner or later, they are going to have to bring back the draft.

or stop getting into unnecessary wars.

Back to the front
You will do what I say, when I say
Back to the front
You will die when I say, you must die
Back to the front
You coward
You servant
You blindman

What the hell? it's a war zone, not a picnic!

What's the problem? You get injured in wars! It happens! So now they think because of a broken thumb they get a free pass? What kind of marines are these whiners? Tape an assault rifle to their smashed palms and send them to the front lines. We don't need the sick and weak anyways! Let's just get them out of the way, and send in the healthy for the second charge. That's the way they did it back in the day and the way they should do it now. Or at the very least send them out in their wheelchairs to detect landmines. The only issue there is the shrapnel possibilities. Or just drop the people on the Iraqi resistance. Yeah! Just take the injured and push them right out of planes onto the terrorist forces. When they see how badly we treat our own soldiers they won't even think of what we could do to the soldiers we don't like!

Meh. Its not that big of a deal.

theorellior: Thank God Rummy decided to win this war on the cheap. It's working out so well! I hope his retirement goes swimmingly.

I'm hoping his retirement ends when he runs into an Iraqi veteran who has a "flash back" or "combat trauma" that results in Rumsfeld's retirment ending early.

wowzer97pooh: What people need to do is identify the young guns in the White House. Then when they run for office, oppose them.

Most of the people in the White House these days are incompetent enough that they'll probably lock their keys out of their car and die of starvation inside.

simpsonfan: Many jobs in the military are not combat, some do not require the person be in perfect health. But the fact they are doing this means sooner or later, they are going to have to bring back the draft.

Also, they are doing this with a military that has already outsourced many many jobs to civilian contractors.

Fix your country, people. You are embarrassment to the rest of us!

Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

Isn't there a point where America will have to admit that they don't have the manpower to continue? Or will that just mean a draft - and how could politicians seriously justify a draft for an aggressive war.

To reiterate, the Iraq didn't do anything to America, and the only risks involved in pulling out, or cutting and running, means leaving the Iraqi people in shambles and leaving the diplomatic maze in the Middle East rather farked up. This carries no real risk for America though (except financially - but America is going to be paying for it regardless).

Because, of course, no one is as good a soldier as someone who's ALREADY suffering closed-head trauma, PTSD, traumatic amputation, internal damage due to shrapnel, hearing loss, vision loss, and all the other hurly-burly of battle injury.

It's not like they could get MORE hurt, right? Maybe they'll die this time and we won't have to pay for their follow-up medical care.

on the flip side, some of these people want to back to duty too...

if not anything else, to relieve their post traumatic stress symptoms

nice to see that everything in iraq is going well. the surge is working.

"Bullshiat! I can't hear you. Sound off like you got a pair!"

"I am ... in a world ... of shiat."

Man, my generation's pretty farked up.

/I guess my grandad's generation was, indeed, tougher

These are troops under light duty. I'm as opposed to the war as the next guy, but it isn't as though they are jamming amputees into gunner slots.

jonr
Fix your country, people. You are embarrassment to the rest of us!

Thank you. It's your approval I'd be worried about....

Gyrfalcon: It's not like they could get MORE hurt, right? Maybe they'll die this time and we won't have to pay for their follow-up medical care.

Ahh, but remember, we can always demand their enlistment bonus back if they don't serve their entire tour due to injury.

BravadoGT: "...but most were assigned to light-duty jobs within limits set by doctors."

Oh, the horror! Getting them back to some level of work after injury. George Bush is the devil, for sure.

Oh, the horror! People trying to defend injured troops who are fighting a war for dickweeds like you. DIAF

FTFA: "My personal opinion is, is that as the war goes on, you'll see more and more soldiers with (limitations)," Graham said.

What I want to know is, what word was originally used instead of "limitations"?

As long as they're not in any combat situation or putting them under any strenuous activity I say send them back until they pay off all those benefits they signed up for in the first place.

theorellior: Gyrfalcon: It's not like they could get MORE hurt, right? Maybe they'll die this time and we won't have to pay for their follow-up medical care.

Ahh, but remember, we can always demand their enlistment bonus back if they don't serve their entire tour due to injury.

..I really hope you're joking about that one.

PLEASE tell me you're joking that they ask for it back if you're injured and can't finish the tour.

EL_FABREZ: As long as they're not in any combat situation or putting them under any strenuous activity I say send them back until they pay off all those benefits they signed up for in the first place.

A certain generation hasn't paid for the social security and medicare they signed up for. It would be cheaper to send them instead

Hundreds of thousands over there and they HAD to get these 79 guys back up there?

Seriously?

EL_FABREZ: As long as they're not in any combat situation or putting them under any strenuous activity I say send them back until they pay off all those benefits they signed up for in the first place.

getting shot is not enough?

/I figure it should be

schmidtybone: PLEASE tell me you're joking that they ask for it back if you're injured and can't finish the tour.

It's from 2006, but you can do some more looking if you're intrigued.

Link (pops)

schmidtybone: theorellior: Gyrfalcon: It's not like they could get MORE hurt, right? Maybe they'll die this time and we won't have to pay for their follow-up medical care.

Ahh, but remember, we can always demand their enlistment bonus back if they don't serve their entire tour due to injury.

..I really hope you're joking about that one.

PLEASE tell me you're joking that they ask for it back if you're injured and can't finish the tour.

Nope. Sadly, he ain't joking.

FunkOut: schmidtybone: theorellior: Gyrfalcon: It's not like they could get MORE hurt, right? Maybe they'll die this time and we won't have to pay for their follow-up medical care.

Ahh, but remember, we can always demand their enlistment bonus back if they don't serve their entire tour due to injury.

..I really hope you're joking about that one.

PLEASE tell me you're joking that they ask for it back if you're injured and can't finish the tour.

Nope. Sadly, he ain't joking.

Ouch. Just.. Ouch. That's not moral.

Uncle Karl: getting shot is not enough?

You'd think it would be, with the adulation you hear about the holy mission of our sainted troops who walk into the lion's den without a moment's hesitation. Of course, once they've gone through the wringer, they're no longer photogenic and probably a bit bitter about their treatment, so we might as well squeeze what we can out of them.

Funny, this dichotomy. Our soldiers are glorified because they'll get shot, and woe betide any man or libtard who dares speak against their mission. But when they do get shot, there ain't no shoulders to cry on anymore, and the treatment they get speaks volumes about how much anyone really cares about these heroes.

Uncle Karl: getting shot is not enough?

/I figure it should be


The word "shot" is not in the article. The injuries specified in the article were sleep disorders and broken bones.

Even if I were to get shot on the job, any job, I wouldn't get a free ride. I'd get rehabbed until I could perform another job.

BravadoGT: "...but most were assigned to light-duty jobs within limits set by doctors."

Oh, the horror! Getting them back to some level of work after injury. George Bush is the devil, for sure.

schmidtybone: Ouch. Just.. Ouch. That's not moral.

Tsk-tsk. President Bush is a Godly man!

namegoeshere: FTFA: "My personal opinion is, is that as the war goes on, you'll see more and more soldiers with (limitations)," Graham said.

What I want to know is, what word was originally used instead of "limitations"?

"F*ck ups"