My brother's girlfriend let her 17-year-old son pre-enlist in the army.

[Ladyhawk]

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WHY?????????????????????????????????????????

The kid is seventeen. He may change his mind by the time he reaches eighteen. Why would she do such a stupid thing?

I'm thoroughly disgusted. :(

[XanaDUer]

1. WTF?

Stunning.

[HEyHEY]

2. yikes - why would they allow that?

[gospelized]

3. obviously

so he can deliver FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY all over the world!!!!!



*punches self in face*

[mmonk]

4. I would never

turn my sons over to this administration. They can go only to protect and defend the US and its constitution (not for neocon ideology or blood money for multinationals).

[cheshire]

5. Do they have a good relationship. My boy(28)would go to Canada like it or

not. I would have taken him and stayed with him to make sure.

[gmoney]

6. Well, he didn't want to get drafted...

(with a tip of the hat to "Lee Harvey" from "Stripes")

[tinanator]

13. lighten up Francis

RIP Sgt Hulka

[BOHICA06]

7. The boy is trying to become a man ....

... and he's making an adult decision. Just remind him that now is the only time you can get the Army into a binding contract, so choose wisely and get it in writing....get it in writing....get it in writing

[leesa]

11. The boy's a fool blinded by the lies of Bush

[ismnotwasm]

8. Oh lord

My daughter went in at 18, she'll be 26 in a month or so. She is so disgusted with the army she can't wait to get out. She's sitting in Afghanistan right now. She's says on a good day it's purgatory, and on a bad day it's prison. She say's those boys in Iraq just need to go home, they're in a bad way mentally, a lot of them. That poor kid! Let's just hope some sanity will prevail in November and beyond. I don't see any way he wouldn't be deployed right now.

[Ladyhawk]

10. I'm sorry about your daughter. :(

She certainly didn't expect a madman to end up president, did she? Man. :scared:

[ismnotwasm]

12. No she didn't

When she was on leave, any political talk upset her--(My father is a right wing nut and we get into shouting matches)When she was here we went and had a nice weekend at the coast. She began to talk about just day to day life, you know, little anecdotal stuff. I was horrified. The memorials for dead soldiers, her "guys" soldiers she's in charge of being called up for casket carrying duty. A soldier with a ruined face from a land mine. The medics who literally have to decide who is going to live and who is going to die out in the field, because of lack of supplies/staff/time and how that fucks them up. I wanted to vomit. I've worked with PTSD patients, and I think we are going to see a lot of severe cases when (please God when) this is over.

[Ladyhawk]

9. Clarification: my brother is a true neo-con.

I doubt he would choose a girlfriend who believes differently.

The young man's sister wants to join the Air Force.

I feel a pressing need to get to my nephew and shake him until he realizes what's going on. My nephew just started high school and I don't like his being exposed to all this fundamentalist (his mother) and neo-con (his father) nonsense. His parents have fucked him over good. :(

[DemBones DemBones]

14. Ever lived with a 17 year-old? They can be very persistent.

And that's the understatement of the year.

They also know your control over them is quite limited since they'll soon be 18 and free to make a lot of legal mistakes on their own.

[Ladyhawk]

15. Well, he made a doozy, didn't he?

I don't like the fact that he has contact with my nephew. But he's my nephew. I don't have any parental rights. :(