It sure is beginning to smell like Viet Nam all over again. This should do wonders for the all volunteer military. I wonder how re-ups will be doing in the next five years?


Report: U.S. May Call National Guard for Iraq Duty

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Pentagon could start a call-up of as many as 10,000 U.S. National Guard soldiers by this winter to bolster forces in Iraq (news - web sites) and offset a lack of troops from allies, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Missions in Iraq and Afghanistan have stretched the U.S. military thin, the report said, and soldiers there still face danger every day.

One senior U.S. defense official, asked by the Journal if he had ever seen the Army stretched so thin, said: "Not in my 31 years" of military service...




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