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To: stockman_scott who wrote (186176)	5/15/2006 12:29:42 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Scott, re: "Too few are carrying the burden of war." It will get worse. The rush of enlistments for patriotic, revenge reasons following 9/11 is just about finished. Reenlistments to stay with "brothers in arms" have had an effect but that will likely slow as it becomes more and more obvious that we're mired in a never-ending cycle where the term "they volunteered" is used to justify grossly burdensome demands on a fixed and too small group of soldiers. But more importantly, the desire to serve will continue to be undercut by the perception that our civilian and military leadership is unfair, overly political and criminally incompetent. When you add in the perception that those sending our soldiers to fight aren't serving and aren't coming home missing limbs or in boxes then I think it's clear that we're on a downward slide in terms of a volunteer military that can fill all of its needed slots. You can throw money at that problem and stop the bleeding but you can't expand the military, you can't continue to get the quality of recruits you need and in the end you'll have to go to plan B. What this leadership has done to the volunteer military is tragic. And we'll pay for years. Ed

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