`I don't have will to go back to war'

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0701270059jan27,1,5066689.story?coll=chi-news-hed

After seeing combat in Afghanistan twice, a Darien man and his family are fighting the Army's call for a third tour, this time to Iraq

By Jo Napolitano
Tribune staff reporter
Published January 27, 2007


Denied.

It was the only word Drew Sleezer really heard when he got the phone call this week.

Sleezer, 22, who already had served two combat tours in Afghanistan, pleaded with the Army to allow him to continue with his college education rather than return to duty.

Instead, he has been ordered to ship out for Iraq June 3. He got the news Thursday.

The Darien man was 17 when he joined the Army, delighted by a $5,000 signing bonus and eager to fight in Afghanistan. It all looked so good: a chance to travel, to pay for college and to fight in a meaningful war after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

He made an eight-year commitment, with three years of active duty and the remainder as an inactive reservist. He said he was told the chances of his being called back after his discharge from active duty were remote.

:( He's only a year older than me, and I know there are many, many more like him (and even younger) there too. Maybe I'm just an immature, whining, liberal p*ssy, but I can't imagine having been on two combat tours already...geez. This needs to stop. :cry:

1. money
2. college
3. and lies about 9/11.

it is just sickening what they are doing to these troops, just using and abusing them. this has got to stop.

troops who enlisted after 2001 to fight osama got fucked by bush, forced to fight in iraq. it was like 911 happened so he could fight in iraq. eight years from 911, 2009 the military will be destroyed.

good thing Nam was only one tour, a second tour for me would have required two m p's one on each arm.

freedom is an inalienable right and as such can never be given away.