Right now it’s not the time to get out of any job to look for a new one. But there are probably benefits in Iraq including guarding the rebuilt swimming pool and park in Baghdad’s Zawra park. They could think of it as being in Jamaica or Miami, Florida but with less thungs and dry heat rather than humid heat.

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Oh Damn,

I have been away too long!

I am going to have to start coming back in and setting some of these fellows straight!

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OMG!!!

Kilo,

@ Mataharley
“Now you may believe there happens to be 1,215 soldiers who’s stint magically happens to be up, not only all coincidently on the same day, but that day happened to be the 4th of July.
That’s a lot of shots in the dark on your part. ”

Really ? That says more about what I was suggesting than author does it ?

I am an ARMY Mom

These folks can get sworn in at ANY time, but they CHOOSE the 4th of July to do it!

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Memorial Day?? OMG… you are a waste of time. My first time in seeing you here. Can’t say as I’ll be paying much attention to your future utterings, Kilo.

That you believe our soldiers place some pittance bonuses as a value on their very lives (they are under fire) at least tells us volumes about you… As the saying goes, “we’ve determined *what* you are…”

Where’s the Flopping Aces fly swatter, guys? Another human gnat is a’swarming.

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A result from Army.Mil pops up near the top of the search. This is every quote contained therein…

“I knew I was going to stay. I had already made up my mind about four or five years ago,” … “”I was going to re-enlist when I got back,”
“I’ve been considering reenlisting for at least the past year,” … “I realized I wanted to stay in and make a career out of it. Besides, you can’t beat the benefits,” he said with a smile.”
“I had to really think about it at first,” he said. “I know I’m going to deploy again, but I don’t have much time left (until retirement). It’s a good thing for my kids. My family, after all, is secure – not just financially. I feel that my family is safer with me being in the military,”
“This is just one of many (reenlistments) to come,”

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Hmmmm…. a Spc reporting in “News Blaze”….
“We went to our separate battalion career counselors on the same day,” said Joshua, who maintains line-of-sight communication antennas for the 1st “Raider” Brigade. “We didn’t realize it would happen on Memorial Day. It just worked out like that.”

Almost sounds like someone decided for them when this massive coordinated ceremony presided over by Petraeus occurred.

After attending a reenlistment briefing by Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Bobb, the senior enlisted leader for 1st BCT, in May, the McCoy’s decided the Army is the best place for their futures.

“Command Sgt. Maj. Bobb made a lot of good points during his briefing,” said Joshua, a native of Charleston, S.C. “We didn’t want to go home and not be able to find a job, so we decided our best bet to have a successful future was to reenlist.”

Maybe they each got tattoos on their ass that insulted each other for this.

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“I guess “patriotism” from a soldier’s view escapes you.”

How lucky then we have people like yourself and this author to speak for them. You could continue that by speaking for the officers I mentioned.

Their video of a *special ceremony on the 4th of July* is what speaks for them, Kilo. That is the only subject of this post, much as you’d like to try and expand it to something more.

“No, Kilo. What you suggested is that many of these 1,215 soldiers, who chose to be part of a public ceremony on the day of the US’s Independence, were doing so for “a job”.”

No. That was the author’s premise not mine. I suggested that it wasn’t based on some secret insight that they had and democrats didn’t.

Once more, s-l-o-w-l-y for you. It obviously takes awhile for your brain to catch up to your keyboard. So I will requote what you did not read in the author’s post:

…those 1215 Americans know something that the most fervent opponents of the war do not. They know something that the mainstream media apparently isn’t reporting. They know that regardless of a six year old debate, the enemy-a death cult of faux Islamic Holy Warriors-is waging a terrorist war in Iraq, and that if America leaves the fight, there will have to be a 3rd invasion.

This relates to your quick, on the spot, snipe remark about them needing a job, how?

It doesn’t. Period. You are hitting fouls to left field. And frankly, you’re really not worth digging your comments out of the spam filter (which is why some were delayed… I found them there.) Evidently the spam filter knows better than I what passes for worthless self-solicitation.

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Hmmm… here’s what’s in result #1 from my google news search, in the KC star…
“The millions of dollars” they receive was certainly one motive, [Petraeus] said. “But no bonus no matter the size can compare with the sacrifices you make in Iraq or the sacrifices your loved ones make back home.”
Army re-enlistment bonuses top out at $40,000, Navy at $75,000, Air Force at $60,000 and the Marines at $45,000.
A bonus’ size also depends on rank, military specialty, years of extension, years of service and other factors. Re-enlistment bonuses signed up for in a combat zone become tax-free.”

Let’s all pretend to wonder together whether that tax-free thing is just a complete fluke of coincidence in how the policy is written, or the entire fkn point. Or whether it is at all relevant to the statement that “hey these guys are there and they’re re-enlisting”, which didn’t mention this.

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“No, Kilo. What you suggested is that many of these 1,215 soldiers, who chose to be part of a public ceremony on the day of the US’s Independence, were doing so for “a job”.”

No. That was the author’s premise not mine. I suggested that it wasn’t based on some secret insight that they had and democrats didn’t.

“You’re still way off base here because you actually “don’t get” they chose to *create* a ceremony on a very special day, when none was required.”

LMAO. Yeah, and how resourceful are those re-enlisting soldiers to have secured Petraeus to preside over this impromptu ceremony. What a stroke of luck.

“I guess “patriotism” from a soldier’s view escapes you.”

How lucky then we have people like yourself and this author to speak for them.
You could continue that by speaking for the officers I mentioned.

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Could we have someone volunteer to suggest the opposite case for problems in retention of officers ? That this is either caused by the same vague “what they know”… snip

Make an effort to stay on point, Kilo. You attempt to misrepresent the post’s subject merely so you can whine. It’s like someone showing you features on a Ford Explorer in a car lot, and you complaining about the Ford factory’s assembly line for the entire product line.

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