From: "Robert G Lewis" 

1% ? 15000 out of 1.5 million er think about that , I doubt that the 1.5
million were subject to reenlistment during the time period

"Mark"  wrote in message
news:43dbeb22{at}w3.nls.net...
> So by your numbers less than 1% are currently under stop-loss and the
> total ever affected was no more than 3% -- doesn't sound all that onerous
> to me and it's not as if they switched playcards on the enlisted men after
> the fact.
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:43dbe9b7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>> "George Sherwood"  wrote in message
>> news:pan.2006.01.28.17.54.33.71764{at}beernabeer.com...
>>> On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:14:28 -0600, Robert G Lewis wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> "George Sherwood" 
wrote in message
>>>> news:pan.2006.01.28.16.54.10.72791{at}beernabeer.com...
>>>>> On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:46:46 -0500, Robert Comer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Having re-ups is fine, but if nobody wants to go
in anymore, it's a
>>>>>> war
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> attrition and we all know how well those turn out.
>>>>>
>>>>> The Army has met its goal for recruiting now for 3 months.
>>>>>
>>>>>
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060110-063639-616
6r
>>>>>
>>>>> George
>>>>
>>
>>
>> How many of the 50,000 since 911 have decided it's better to get the pay
>> for re-upping than nothing since they can't get out anyway
>>
>> http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=34624
>>
>> Judge throws out challenge to Army's stop-loss program
>>
>>
>> By Jeff Schogol, Stars and Stripes
>> Mideast edition, Saturday, January 28, 2006
>>
>>
>>
>> A federal judge has thrown out a legal challenge to the Army's stop-loss
>> program, which prohibits soldiers from leaving the Army if their unit is
>> slated to deploy to the combat zone, court records say.
>>
>> The current stop-loss program has been in effect since January 2002, said
>> Army spokeswoman Lt. Col. Pamela Hart.
>>
>> "Currently, there are approximately 12,500 soldiers under Stop-Loss:
>> 7,600 active duty soldiers, 2,450 reservists, and 2,450 National
>> Guardsmen," Hart said in an e-mail.
>>
>> "We estimate that approximately 50,000 of the more than 1.5 million
>> soldiers who have been/are in the Army have been affected since 9-11."
>>
>>
>
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