No warriors need apply

A friend in Texas was wounded in the face in 1966 while an Infantry scout with 4th ID. After a year of hospitalization and therapy, he attended Infantry OCS and was commissioned a 2LT. Deciding his prospects might be better with steel between bullets and his body, he then went to Armor School at Knox and received an Armor commission. He was a tank company commander in Korea in the 1970s when forced from the Army because he was only an experienced fighter, not a college graduate.

The Army is surpassing stupidity now by giving pink slips to around 50 captains presently deployed to Afghanistan. That's right. Army captains in a war zone have been told their services will no longer be needed, but keep up the fight until processed out Stateside.

“At least 48 Army captains serving in Afghanistan are among nearly 1,200 captains who have essentially been given pink slips forcing them to leave the military as part of the Army's drawdown, service officials said Wednesday.

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“A senior Army official defended the move to tell captains in Afghanistan that they had been chosen for separation rather than wait until their tours in the combat zone had ended.

“The official said that the seven or nine-month clock for transition out of the Army started running when they were selected for separation and it was better to ‘give them the maximum amount of time” to prepare for civilian life.

"’I believe it was the right thing to do,’ said the senior official, who spoke on background on the condition he was not identified.”

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‘The selection process for separation began with an extensive records check to turn up those with marks against their careers – ‘anything from an extra-marital affair to a DUI (Driving Under the Influence),’ a senior official said.”

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/07/23/captains-deployed-to-afghanistan-get-pink-slip.html?ESRC=army-a.nl

(“I believe it was the right thing to do.” Of course you do, duckhed. You still have a job.

(As for giving the captains “the maximum amount of time” to prepare for civilian life, hey it’s not like they have anything else to do right now. “I can’t be bothered about an attack on one of my outposts. I’m preparing for civilian life.”

(By saying “extra-marital affair” and “DUI,” the “senior official” branded every departing captain as a drunken adulterer.)