MILITARY SERVICE REQUIREMENTS

[drussell41]

@"drussell41" 

Heck, even the Civil Service people can find themselves in harm's way now.  And contractors -- lost a bunch of those guys in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Uncounted losses, most of them prior-service people.

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True.    Contractors.....my husband was one because USAF wouldn't send him (CMSgt), so he retired earlier than he would have liked and went anyway.   When they hung the burned bodies of contractors from a bridge, it was not a good time for me.  

One of his friends was beheaded there, Ken Bigley.  He was a civil engineer who had a house in the Mansour District.  The terrorists disabled the generator, and when they went out to check it, he was kidnapped.  It haunts me.   He even had basic military training (draftee earlier in life); how much less would I hope that a completely untrained civilian would have been okay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_hostages_in_Iraq

To this day, I would be okay with the summary execution of all Al-Qaeda asswipes, along with Moktada Al-Sadr and all his buddies. The latter nearly got my husband at Al Kut. No, I don't believe in letting bygones be bygones.