Re: [OT] Sevice

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>Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 03:24:48 -0800 (PST)
>From: Robert Makowsky <rmakowsky@yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [OT] Sevice
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>This is called Stop Loss and has been in effect for
>quite some time in the Army for specific specialties
>(SF and Aviation to name a few).
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>Los was trying to explain it to a friend of ours, they
>could not get the fact that he could not leave.  
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>Magic
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>PS Will be un-subbing sometime in the next 6 weeks.  I
>have been designated for an overseas deployment as
>well.	More info as events warrant.  (Course it might
>give me time to do my FT-Littoral Ops and SAR that I
>have been in the thinking stage on.
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When you enlist in the armed forces you actually signup for more years
then
you serve. When I signed up you may have signed up for 3 or 4 years but
you contracted for 6 years. Today you contract for 8 years. I think that
that time can be involintaryily expanded but only if war is declaired 
(not since
WWII).

Scott Siebold