Adding insult to injury, the government continues to pursue individuals discharged under DADT to recover educational loans and enlistment bonuses, even though it was the government that wrongfully prevented them from working off those loans and benefits through continued service.
Already, said Betty Nass, the Army's project manager for eArmyU, 15percentt of eArmyU students have extended their enlistments so that they can continue to take classes.
(I note, though, that the reason for enlistment may not remain their motivation to continue in military service, and that membership in a community in danger and under pressure tends to radically alter one's orientation toward the group. So, someone who joins for economic reasons may not remain in the service for that reason alone, or at all).
[A representative of a human rights organization, who subsequently visited the village, was told that 100 young people, mostly under 18, were taken.] Complaints filed with international aid groups, as well as interviews with Tamils and community leaders in the Tiger-controlled north and east, also indicate that child enlistment and abduction, while down from past levels, continue.
He proved today that if he is elected, America's military will continue to be overdeployed, harming morale and re-enlistment rates, weakening our military's core mission".
Ms. Rice, who is being appointed Mr. Bush's national security adviser, said at the time that if Vice President Al Gore became president "America's military will continue to be overdeployed, harming morale and re-enlistment rates, weakening our military's core mission".
Since the initial report of his son's enlistment, I have heard from roughly 400 readers, many of them convinced that Bronner could not continue in his current assignment.
And by the time his enlistment is up in 2016, Daniel said he expects the military and the rest of the country will continue to change.
Joey's enlistment had been held up by the injuries he sustained playing baseball, but his plan was still to serve, then continue advocating for disabled veterans -- perhaps one day serving as the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The recruiting problems have continued -- with the three Reserve forces unlikely to make their targets by the time the fiscal year ends on Sept. 30 -- even though the active-duty services have turned around their own dismal recruiting record after an infusion of recruiters, increased advertising and enlistment bonuses, according to Pentagon records.
