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auburngrad82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-22-04 11:52 AM
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Feeling a draft?
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_3346307,00.html

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In California, an Army National Guard soldier filed a lawsuit challenging the Guard's authority to stop-loss soldiers beyond the end of their enlistments. His attorney, Michael Sorgen, said the lawsuit could affect up to 46,000 in the Guard and Reserves.

"No one questions that only Congress can authorize a draft," Sorgen said. "Yet the Army is drafting soldiers through the back door by extending their service involuntarily. We no longer have an all-volunteer Army."

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"Are you seeing a fault line? Absolutely," said retired Col. David Hackworth, an author and Vietnam veteran. "I think the only way we're going to be able . . . to sustain military operations with the small pool of assets that we have is to go to the draft."

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L84TEA Donating Member (668 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-22-04 11:57 AM
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1. ugh...say it isn't so....
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