You hear about military personnel being sent to Iraq or Afghanistan for the 3rd or 4th time, but I’ve also read about guys having come back and who are now out of the military. Is the military discharging very many guys? How do they decide who?
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They arent discharging very meny unless it is time for the person to get out then the military really tries to retain them because of their knowledge and they wont have to spend thousands of dollars training a new person.
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When your service is up, it is possible for the next 8 years to be called back to active duty(6 more for me). I don't remember what the actual term is for it, and it differs form branch to branch. I think its only 4 years for the Army. I'm not to worried about it yet, because the only people they have done this with were people who have very special training that they have no replacement for. However, when your enlistment is up, its up, and they cannot FORCE you to re-enlist. They will do almost anything to "encourage" you to do so, but they cant make you. I did two tours in Iraq and received two purple hearts for my service, so I feel I did my duty. I still have a good friend who did re-enlist and is now on his fourth tour in Iraq. I keep in constant contact with him because I fear for him because I'm not there to save his ass, AGAIN, anymore. I pray everyday that I see him again in this life and I thing its feelings like this that have kept re-enlistment so high. I hope this helps answer your question.
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Enlisted people are always obligated for at least 8 years. Regular Army soldiers tend to do 4 years active, then 4 years Inactive Ready Reserve (IRR). Most National Guardsmen do 6 years reserve duty, then 2 years IRR. At the end of those eight years you ETS (Estimated Termination of Service). Once you reach that without being stop-lossed, you're free. But until that day, the military can "stop-loss" you, which extends your contract. When I got called up, they stop-lossed my unit three months before we mobilized, so no one could get out, regardless of his or her ETS date. But if you reach your ETS without being stop-lossed, they cannot extend you after that, or force you to re-up.
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well lets see if i can sum this up right now for it is no big secret we have like 13,000 service members stop-lossed from the forces and it kind of makes you a little upset with the service for keeping you past your seperation date especially if you did your obligated time. i.e. me in 12 years stop loss ask to re-enlist tell them go fuck themselves they didnt even ask that until they approved stop-loss pay 13,000x500 good chunk of change per month to pay out to these folks and number can be higher because it depends how many units being deployed and people keeping fingers crossed hoping orders dont come down 90 days before seperation for that is cut off for most branch's 90 days out from ETS cant touch you
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