This involuntary NG callup, it's a draft right?

[catmandu57]

I know they are under contract but it seems to me that the key word here is involuntary. Four brigades now, possibly nine by the summers end to fill out the chimp's* surge, it seems to me to be an illegal draft whether or not these people signed on the line.
Is there someway they can refuse to go?

[valerief]

1. Can people "gay" their way out anymore? It sure beats hacking off

your leg to avoid going (although that might not stop Bushco anyway).

[Dhalgren]

8. I think that every NG member who doesn't want to go should

admit to being gay. They get discharged and go on about their business. "But people will think they really are gay!" So what? Who cares? This shit has to stop and this is a good way to stop two shit-birds with one, "I'm gay."

[valerief]

10. Absolutely. And it would send the message that Americans want

Broadway shows to flourish, not bloodshed.

(I know not all gay people love B'way, but it's nice to pretend they do.)

[shadowknows69]

2. Governors need to step up and refuse to deploy them

that's the only way to bring this to a head. Bush will keep abusing these guys. What does he care?

[catmandu57]

4. Our governor won't

baby doc blunt, he'd rather chew his own leg off than go against his masters.

[HereSince1628]

6. Governors don't have that authority any longer.

Rummy and Bush were way out ahead of that trick.

[Sammy Pepys]

3. Not a draft.

A draft is where you pull folks who aren't in the military into it, sort them by fitness for duty, train them, and send them off. Not what's happening here.

[catmandu57]

5. I know that

but, we've talked about the dackdoor draft for years here, it just seems to me that the key word is involuntary.

[splat]

7. They voluntarily joined

Where they deploy isn't voluntary: "You're in the army now!"

[NNN0LHI]

9. No. When someone gets drafted they receive a notice that says,

Greetings from the President of the United States. You are hereby inducted, ...

Don't have to sign any enlistment contract like these folks all did.

Don

[shadowknows69]

11. You can't get out of the army voluntarily

I've met guys tell me they're getting out in a week. I pick them up in my cab again two months later and they've been stop lossed and are headed back to war. Met at least three like that.

[NNN0LHI]

12. That is all explained in their enlistment contracts that they signed

If some of them didn't read the fine print let that be a lesson to others.

Don

[catmandu57]

13. Man that sucks

Good to see you're still kicking, did you ever find out what the problem was?

[shadowknows69]

14. working on it. going for test. trying to figure out how to pay for them

thanks for the concern. Truly.