1. I asked KLP and she ducked the question but provided no information.
2. I didn't know and I don't know that KLP is a woman, is 60 years old has or has not been in the military or is or is not in Iraq at this time.
3. That's why I asked her. I also don't care that KLP is a woman, is 60 years old or anything else. I only care that he/she lies on this thread.
I use KLP's utter lack of factual information against her because she lies on this thread over and over and over again. When I provide her with factual information she freaks out and apparently complains to someone.
I am thoroughly and absolutely disgusted that anyone on this thread would use lies to make a point and then refuse to do even a lick of research to see if their position had merit. I am disgusted by that level of laziness.
The US Military has been calling up senior citizens to fill their ranks. They even managed to call up a widow whose husband was long dead to see if they could get him back in. The US Military has to know how old these people are. It just shows the utter desperation of this war...not enough people are volunteering.
There was a couple interviewed on PBS who were reservists at the very tail end of their service. They were both sent to the war leaving their young children in the care of their relatives. The US Military sent BOTH PARENTS. At this point, why shouldn't a 60 year old woman or man go in the place of one of them?
Why not?
Why shouldn't those who don't wish to go to this war ask those who want to wage war to go in their stead?
Why not?
----------as for your objections about age, talk to the US Military:
70-year-old oral surgeon heeds Army’s call to duty
By Craig Palmer
Satellite Beach, Fla. — Dr. John J. Caulfield was incredulous about the Army's "unsolicited communication" inviting his return to active duty toward easing increasing wartime demands on military medical treatment facilities.
Photo: Dr. John J. Caulfield
Dr. Caulfield
He disregarded the first postcard last December and the second and subsequent phone messages on the answering machine, not from any unwillingness to serve — "My government has never asked me to do anything I ever refused" — but figuring they used the wrong mailing list, it's not really me they want.
The Army persisted. Would Dr. Caulfield, oral surgeon and Vietnam veteran, retired from military service in 1980 and civilian practice Jan. 1, be willing to return to active duty in, say, Iraq or Afghanistan? The negotiations began with Dr. Caulfield asking, "Do you know how old I am?" They did, and age doesn't matter, "We want you."
Dr. Caulfield, who turned 70 Aug. 7, reports to Fort Benning, Ga., Oct. 17 for what he and the military describe as "voluntary deployment" with the 325th Combat Support Hospital in Bagram, Afghanistan.
"I don't know at this time if there is anyone older," said Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty, Army public affairs officer. "But there are no age limitations for retired medical professionals. We sent cards to hundreds of people. It's a personnel policy. In certain specialties we are asking for retired professionals to return for a short tour on active duty. But it's purely voluntary. It's really for a volunteer in good shape. There's a lot of need for medical professionals over there."
How short the tour? Dr. Caulfield understands it to be a three-month assignment. "I believe it's 120 days," said Lt. Col. Hilferty.
Dr. Caulfield sees himself as "a kind of fatalist" and Afghanistan as "moderately busy for my specialty." He invokes harsher descriptions for the requisite reconstruction of professional and military careers just to get the assignment. "Getting reactivated is a complicated, time consuming, frustrating and, yes, somewhat demeaning process," he said.
What it meant was "vetting" the past by running down all the transcripts, personal recommendations and documentation from high school, college, professional school, internship, residency, licensure boards, hospitals with privilege, professional liability history and appointments "from everywhere I had ever practiced or been licensed." That meant affirmation from a classmate at a high school that no longer exists who said upon their reacquaintance, "John, I heard you were dead."
So it came to this. "After clearing it with my wife of 47 years, I agreed to go anyplace where she could join me." The Army suggested Iraq. "Only if I'm really needed," Dr. Caulfield demurred. Then how about Afghanistan? the Army responded.
"Let's put it this way, I have orders," said Dr. Caulfield. "So much for going somewhere my wife could accompany me."
"We appreciate people like Dr. Caulfield," said Lt. Col. Hilferty. "He's a patriot. I have great respect for him."
Dr. Caulfield, father of four, grandfather of eight, figures he's in "reasonable good health with the exception of meds for hypertension, acid reflux and a little osteoarthritis," and good to go. But he wonders if the Army Medical Service isn't "stretched thin" in having to reach for retired oral surgeons, ophthalmologists, psychiatrists, nurse anesthetists and other specialists for combat duty.
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