
Originally Posted by
eliteforce
it was in one of the articles that he had been trying to get out for some time, the problem is that the military training him in his medical profession makes it harder to get out because he's supposed to pay back that debt with service, he started offering to pay back the amount of the training but it doesn't work that way and it's not allowed..
but even with normal lower trained military since the war started there has been the stoploss-which kept people in the military even after their agreed 4 or 6 year tour expired, and they had even went so far as to call back into service people that had been discharged in the early 1990's .. all of this the US government claims to have the right to do, like if you sign up they own you for the rest of your life..
The system during vietnam was so much better-you woud get drafted, goto basic training, i guess thats about 3 months, and do 1 year in vietnam,and that was it, there were no stoploss or callbacks..
none of the people that signed up for 4 or 6 years thought it was possible for the government to violate the agreement it signed with them, even though they knew that if they violated the agreement they would goto jail , but the government can suddenly invent this stoploss rule and do callbacks and all of that was somehow legal..
ofcource this isn't justification for a shooting massacre but the point is that in this system you wind up with people that shouldn't be there, in this case there was a legitimate conscious objection issue, conscious objection has to be controlled otherwise half the army would use it, but in a case like this it would be appropriate to discharge after they determine that he is not just doing it to get out of service but because the current conflict in incompatible with his beliefs..
if there is a draft the military will not be so desperate to keep people on that are potentially dangerous or incompetent, the way the system works now they are basically forced to con people into joining with aggressive recruiting, sales pitches, and misleading information, when they do things like stoploss then even less people want to join, who wants to join the military for life?