God's Army:

[plifter]

New recruits are down. Re-enlistment may be high but a lot are being bribed with bonuses. I even read an article where they said that the military is threatening to use the stop loss order to keep people in the military and make sure they are sent back to Iraq if they don't voluntarily reenlist. That's sort of a draft in itself.

 

[Powerbuilder333]

Retention/recruiting statistics from 2006. http://usmilitary.about.com/od/joiningthemilitary/a/06recruiting.htm
I have goose bumps from the pride I feel towards our military men and women.

 

[Longhorn85]

Re-enlistment may be high but a lot are being bribed with bonuses.

When an employee in the private sector receives a bonus is it considered a bribe as well?

 

[mrplunkey]

I'm in the minority but I think it was a good forward thinking move
it's been messy but noone gets war perfect
noone

I'm with you on this one. Front-end of the occupation could have been handled better, says this monday-morning quarterback.

It'll eventually get cleaned-up and stand as a testament to the US's ability to nation-rebuild when some petty thug dictator wants to destabilize a region. They used to put heads on spikes at the tower of london for a reason.