My nephew may be re-deployed. Is this fair???

[PinkTiger]

My 28-year-old nephew volunteered for the Navy when he was 22 and served for four years. Two years ago he got out of the Navy and now lives in his home town, has a job and is trying to get back into college. He received a letter and has to go to New Orleans for a week to undergo a physical.

What is with this?? Can they really make him go back?? This is conscription. This is crap. He is not in the reserves, and is not a member of the guard.

[BamaLefty]

1. Is It Fair?

Let me think... :(

This so sad. I feel for your family.

[bluestateguy]

2. Is there a way he could intentionally fail the physical?

Such that he would be declared unfit for service?

[DesEtoiles]

3. I think he just...chose to be gay? Will that work?

[PinkTiger]

10. He would rather die, lol

I love my nephew, but he is really homophobic. He is also a fan of Bush. I would say he deserves what he is getting, but he is my nephew and I love him dearly -- just not his politics. If anything good comes from this, maybe it will be that he finally sees what the GOP is good for -- absolutely nothing.

[recoveringrepublican]

5. Fake a hearing loss? My real one prevented my enlisting in the ARMY!

Never thought I would be grateful for my hearing loss. Found out I had one when I was trying to enlist. Since I was going to be a nurse, it may have very well saved my life. My younger brother just was denied last year also because of his.

I don't think it would be hard to fake a loss. When I failed the physical my loss wasn't that severe. If they still test hearing like they did 8 years ago, just "forget" to push the button when you hear the tone.

[lenidog]

4. No its not conscription and he signed up for it.

When you get out of the military and depending how long you served you are liable for a period in the inactive reserve. That means that any time during your period of inactive reserve you are liable to be called up in time of national emergency or need. I had a friend who was going to college and was called up to serve in the First Gulf War in the middle of the semester. He never made it to the Gulf but spent six week playing cards and shooting up the rifle range before they sent him home. He had been out for two years.

[PinkTiger]

7. This sucks.

He was on a ship for four years, and even participated in Iraq during the first days of the war. He was on the Kitty Hawk.

I don't think he will fail the physical; but I know he is really angry about having to go back.

[lenidog]

11. It does suck but they got him because he agreed to it when he

joined up. I never had to worry about it because I served 8 years in the regular army. So when I got out the considered me done when it came to the inactive reserve. The last time they called up the inactive reserve during the First Gulf War, they called up only people who had been out a year or two and had MOSs that required long training or were very valuable. Your typical grunt in an infantry unit wouldn't have to worry. Now I don't know what to tell you.

[PinkTiger]

9. If they are having so much trouble keeping people in and getting more

recruits, then maybe they need to take a look at what they are doing and stop doing it!!!!

Why should our young people die so George can have more oil????

[lenidog]

12. I agree but it isn't something that started with this presidency

I signed up in 89 and had it on my enlistment papers.

[faithnotgreed]

6. with this bunch no one is safe from being called back

i think its supposed to be if you have served your time and are removed 8 yrs or something like that but even that is flexible with this regime (and so is all other truth)

[Qanisqineq]

8. No, it isn't fair

But I've seen it happen. My husband was out of the army for 6 months (after nearly 8 years of service) when they started talking about the Iraq war. He was in the Guards and his commander told him that he (the commander) received a letter that my husband was getting called back into the regular army (the commander wasn't supposed to tell him but did).

My husband didn't want to go back to his old MOS, it was a pretty dangerous one and he would have been in Iraq for the initial invasion. Instead, since he knew he was going to end up in the army again no matter what, he re-enlisted and chose a different MOS, a safer one. During the invasion he was in training so he missed that but he did end up going to Iraq anyway.

He didn't want to go AWOL, I guess his pride got in the way. We were both against the Iraq war before it even started, but he had to go and so he hoped it would be short and that they would actually want us there. Obviously none of that came true.

[lenidog]

13. Your husband lucked out

I had a friend do that during the Vietnam War. He knew his number was coming up and he disargeed with the war but he was trapped by his upbringing and the fact that his family had served in pratically every war America ever fought starting with the Revolution. SO he figured instead of becoming Army or Marine cannon fodder he would join the Navy. He ended up being posted to the river patrol and saw just as much action as any army grunt and made more of a target.

[number6]

14. no

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