When this guy enlisted, he also enlisted his wif'e's pre-existing condition into a Universal Health Care System.

Someone said that if we had Universal Health Care that he wouldn't have to enlist.

Quite the opposite is true, if he wanted the best Universal Health Care there is, that's exactly what he had to do - ENLIST!

If you want to dance, the Piper must be paid. His dance is his wife's Health Care, the Piper is the creditor he agreed to pay, up to and including his life, in return for the music.

At a time of our nation's highest unemployment rate, actually around 20%, the military is not hurting for recruits.

This guy was lucky that he got in when he did, before they become more selec...

When this guy enlisted, he also enlisted his wif'e's pre-existing condition into a Universal Health Care System.

Someone said that if we had Universal Health Care that he wouldn't have to enlist.

Quite the opposite is true, if he wanted the best Universal Health Care there is, that's exactly what he had to do - ENLIST!

If you want to dance, the Piper must be paid. His dance is his wife's Health Care, the Piper is the creditor he agreed to pay, up to and including his life, in return for the music.

At a time of our nation's highest unemployment rate, actually around 20%, the military is not hurting for recruits.

This guy was lucky that he got in when he did, before they become more selective and take only college grads, like the cops are doing.

Steve Savage said:

He thinks it's a good idea otherwise why would he have joined.

Did the possibility that he felt that he had no other alternative other than watch his wife slowly die from a treatable disease cross your mind?

Steve Savage said:

At a time of our nation's highest unemployment rate, actually around 20%, the military is not hurting for recruits.

What about:

The US Army and Marines are signing up more felons in an effort to overcome flagging enlistment, the AP reports. The Army doubled its recruitment of felons last year and the Marines upped theirs from 208 to 350—in...

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Steve Savage said:

He thinks it's a good idea otherwise why would he have joined.

Did the possibility that he felt that he had no other alternative other than watch his wife slowly die from a treatable disease cross your mind?

Steve Savage said:

At a time of our nation's highest unemployment rate, actually around 20%, the military is not hurting for recruits.

What about:

The US Army and Marines are signing up more felons in an effort to overcome flagging enlistment, the AP reports. The Army doubled its recruitment of felons last year and the Marines upped theirs from 208 to 350—including conscripts with sex crime and manslaughter convictions. The rise in felon recruits "may be undermining military readiness," said Rep. Henry Waxman, who revealed the data.

Did the possibility that he felt that he had no other alternative other than watch his wife slowly die from a treatable disease cross your mind?

Of course. If you were faced with only those two available courses of action, which would you choose. We're dealing with "What is" here, not with non-existent options.

By the way, the article you referenced, was published Apr 21, 08 at a time when unemployment was low, and few volunteers wanted to serve. It's a whole new ballgame now, now that unemployment is around 20%, and no new jobs are in sight.

April 21, 2008: But a Pentagon spokesman told the AP that waivers for felony crimes are
"granted only after a thorough review." H...

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Did the possibility that he felt that he had no other alternative other than watch his wife slowly die from a treatable disease cross your mind?

Of course. If you were faced with only those two available courses of action, which would you choose. We're dealing with "What is" here, not with non-existent options.

By the way, the article you referenced, was published Apr 21, 08 at a time when unemployment was low, and few volunteers wanted to serve. It's a whole new ballgame now, now that unemployment is around 20%, and no new jobs are in sight.

April 21, 2008: But a Pentagon spokesman told the AP that waivers for felony crimes are
"granted only after a thorough review." He said that "low unemployment,
a protracted war on terror, a decline in propensity to serve" are among
factors making US military recruitment more difficult.

It's now October 22, 2209. The recruitment offices are now very selective and take only the very best who score high on the ASVAB; most are college graduates, and have impeccable moral backgrounds, and even many of these are being turned away.

The military is no longer reaching out for just any warm body looking for "Three Hots and Cot," they want patriots, like my three sons.

When my son, Dan, was asked to write an essay, before his pre-enlistment interview, why he wanted to become an officer, he wrote:

"I want to live the Great Life, the life of a warrior in service to America and in service to those who, for whatever reason, cannot, should not, or will not serve. I want to earn the right to stand among the ranks of our nation's Greatest Men, both the living and the dead, most known only to God, and to share with them, what only a true warrior may experience, the feeling of filling every inch of my uniform with love and pride in America."

IN HONOR OF MY BELOVED SON'S SERVICE TO AMERICA by Steve Savage "King of the Beasts"
http://sskotb.blogspot.com/2007/11/in-honor-of-my-beloved-sons-service-to.html