Appeals court OKs forced military extensions

for the Friday evening news dump. Yeah, once you sign that paperwork, you are owned, lock, stock, and barrel.

How nice.

Don

period kinda meaningless, then, doesn't it?

Bring a magnifying glass and read the tiny print.

Be the best 50 bucks someone could spend. Even when I can read the fine print on a contract I never understand what it means.

Don

Most of them will probably be surprised when they find out that 15 months really meant 15 years.

Here sign up for only fifteen months...honest.

having to stay in Iraq beyond their sign-up..What is new about this one?

This repeated and pervasive erosion of the concept of 'rights' is an appalling corruption of political thinking in this country.

The military is a creature of law, legitimately subordinate to the rights of The People. The military, as an organzaiton and creature of law, has no 'rights' -- only an entitled authority under law.

Once you are in the military, you have no rights, not even the
right to get out of the military at the end of your enlistment.

Once they start up the draft, nobody will have any rights.

How many years after the Vietnam War did it take for the military to begin to repair the damage to itself and have a reasonable number of people enlist?

The military did horrible things to draftees, while doing protecting the "regular" or career minded soldiers as best they could. How long was that remembered? How badly did the military hurt itself?

Now, not only the military, but the Congress, the President, and the Courts are actively taking away the few rights soldiers retain after signing up to protect their countries, they are taking away the benefits and prileges that military service once gave citizens for signing up. There is no plus side to military service any more that I can see. (Why should one lose one's Constitutional rights because one signed up to PROTECT those Constitutional rights? Oh the irony!)

How long before young people will even consider military service when it begins to sink in that if you sign up for four or eight or twelve years, you are in reality signing up for a possible life time of servitude?

Those laws will have to be changed. A contract for four or eight or twelve or twenty years should be for no longer than the contracted amount of time. If the person and the military entity BOTH want to renew or extend the contract, fine, and again only for a specified time. However, if one party (especially the person) does not want to extend the contract, it should not be allowed for it to be extened.

Even if that scenario became law, how long before people will trust the military enough to enlist?

n/t