> Many of the soldiers who are now in Iraq or preparing to go are not > full-time members of the armed forces but rather are members of the > National Guard or Reserve who have full-time civilian jobs > and who drill > with their military units on weekends. Those people have had > to leave > their families and put their regular lives on hold.
Jeffrey Miller replied:
While that's tough on them and their families, it /is/ what they signed up to do.
Which does not falsify JDG's original statement about many US citizens being away from their homes and jobs... Ronn! posted what he did to correct Jeroen's statement that the US soldiers in Iraq were not away from their jobs but were merely where their jobs took them.
JDG was making a point about the economic affects of the war. The fact that both the regular soldiers and the reservists signed up for this is beside the point.
Reggie Bautista
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