From: Adam Flinton 

Steve Ewing wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 01:09:36 -0400, Gary Britt 
> wrote:
>
>> More importantly the All Volunteer army has been a huge success in
>> building a more professional and more proficient military than
>> compared  to drafted
>> recruits.  The generals and the grunts prefer working with other
>> dedicated professionals who CHOOSE to be in the military than
>> draftees  who don't want to be there from before they ever arrive.
>> All Volunteer except in a World War II type situation is the ONLY WAY
>> to  go.
>
>
> Hey, I agree: I was a part of it, remember.  I just think it will be a
> little harder meeting recruiting goals these days: not because our
> people  are afraid to fight, but because they are afraid to be misused.
> As though  Custer survived Little Big Horn, and was having a recruiting
> drive to take  another whack at those pesky Sioux.
>
> Interestingly, while watching the Pats game today (Sheesh: what
> happened  to our division?  We may as well just go to the playoffs now)
> I saw a Army  Reserve commercial showing an empty mechanic bay (Joe is
> hunting Osama bin  Laden), some other position untended (Mike is
> training troops in Iraq),  and so on (Fred is doing X in Guatemala),
> with the pitch that it's not  just another job.
>
> Sorta brings full circle that old joke: Join the Army, see the world,
> meet  interesting people... and kill them.
>

Join as a mechanic - get sent as front line infantry?

I wonder if they're going to give navy pilots a tour on the ground in Iraq
clutching an M16.

Adam

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