Uncle Sam Wants Your Kids – Now! So lets get those who voted for [View All]

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Uncle Sam Wants Your Kids – Now!
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By David H. Hackworth
We’ll soon have 150,000 U.S. troops stuck in the ever-expanding Iraqi quagmire, a number that will probably grow even larger before Iraq holds elections presently scheduled for the end of January ’05.
Maintaining such a force is a logistical and personnel nightmare for every grunt in Iraq. And according to several Pentagon number crunchers, it’s also driving the top brass bonkers.
Meanwhile the insurgents continue cutting our supply lines and whacking our fighting platoons and supporters, who attrit daily as soldiers and Marines fall to enemy shots, sickness or accidents. Empty platoons lose fights, so these casualties have to be replaced ASAP.
Since this tragic war kicked off in March 2003, the United States has evacuated an estimated 50,000 KIA, WIA and non-battle casualties from Iraq back to the States – leaving 50,000 slots that have had to be filled.
The job of finding fresh bodies to keep our units topped off falls mainly to the Army Recruiting Command. But the “making-quota” jazz put out by the Recruiting Command and the Pentagon to hype their billion-dollar recruiting effort, with its huge TV expenditure and big expansion of recruiters during the past year, is pure unadulterated spin. Not that this is anything new. The Command has a sorry reputation for using smoke and mirrors to cover up poor performance.
“Hack, here’s a snapshot of how little of our 1st Quarter mission has been achieved,” says an Army recruiter. “Look at it from a perspective of a business releasing quarterly earnings information. To keep unit manning levels up out in the field, especially in Iraq, there’s no question our recruiting mission is in serious trouble.”
“These are totals for the 41 USAREC (Recruiting Command) Battalions, so these stats represent the USAREC mission accomplishment:
Regular Army Volume (all RA contracts):
Mission: 25,322
Achieved: 12,703 (50.17 percent)
Army Reserve Volume:
Mission: 7,373
Achieved: 3,206 (43.48 percent).”
The Army National Guard is faring no better. A Guard retention NCO says: “The word is out on the streets of Washington, D.C. ‘Do not join the Guard.’ I see these words echoing right across the U.S.A.”
By the end of this recruiting year, the Regular Army, Reserves and Guard could fall short more than 50 percent of its projected requirement, or about 60,000 new soldiers. And according to many recruiters, quality recruits are giving way to mental midgets who have a hard time telling their left foot from their right.
Shades of our last years in Vietnam.

12-06-2004

Hack's Target

Uncle Sam Wants Your Kids – Now!

I feel that it is time for those who voted for Mr. Bush to go ahead and start sending their young ones on down to see the recruiters! That is what we need to do across this land send out the message that if you voted for the status quo , Bush- Cheney, then you need to back up that vote with your own blood our your children's! Just imagine if we were to get all of those people that voted for him to have to answer the call I think then we would get a true count of how many people actually voted for AWOL Bush. As for me I just marked my thirtieth year after ten of active retirement but still wondering if I might get that call back to duty. As it is I would wind up with my son since he has the same MOS that I had and is in the same unit I was in! Don't get me Wrong I feel that there is nothing Wrong with faithfully serving your country to defend it from our enemies I just don't feel we had real enemies in the people of Iraq until after we bombed and invaded them, They were glad to see Sadam go but now they have to wonder if they our better off now than back under Sadam!





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