Reply #35: I joined the army in 1989 and was discharged at the end of basic [View All]

[neverforget]

training for failing the pushup part of the Physical Fitness Test (PFT). When I was discharged, the army lawyer told me that this discharge won't help me and it won't hurt me but you still have your 8 year obligation to the Army. That obligation ended in 1997.

I was talking with my wife this past weekend about how I suddenly had this feeling that I'm going to be hearing from the Army sometime in the near future. Reading the post by greenbriar confirms to me that others who were discharged in basic are being searched out by the Army. Will I hear from them? I don't know. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I can't help but think that the Army will do everything it can to fill its ranks without asking for a draft.