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Senior Democrat Calls for Reinstatemment of Draft | by DesertRat66 | 2006-11-20 08:03:58 |
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I have a life logistics question... | by Concept | 2006-11-20 10:02:34 |
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When you're called | by DesertRat66 | 2006-11-20 10:35:12 |
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What happens to your family? | by MatthewDBA | 2006-11-20 10:48:01 |
| This is an excellent question, and... |
by Ravenlock |
2006-11-20 10:57:56 |
part of the reason I asked what I did here. I am no longer a student, but my wife is. She's finishing a graduate degree in nuclear engineering - one which has cost both the sponsoring company and the university a fair amount of money and resources for her to pursue. We are moving to Pittsburgh in January and have purchased a house contingent on the salary she'll have in the job she's accepted there for next year, but obviously she's got to finish the degree first.
If she were to be called up tomorrow, I can't make a salary that lets us keep the house, so we would forfeit it and probably be subject to a lawsuit for breach of contract. She wouldn't be able to finish the masters degree that so many people have put time and money towards, and who knows whether it would be feasible for her to do so after serving her time.
Unless issues like that and the ones you've brought up are accounted for in some satisfactory way (and the pittance that I understand they currently give you for post-service education right now doesn't count), the idea of pulling people out of whatever situation they're in is going to destroy families left and right. A draft at 18 works because, presumably, kids out of high school at 18 don't have people dependent on them yet. |
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There are various laws in place to protect you | by DesertRat66 | 2006-11-20 11:02:39 |
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Ravenlock If you wife has all that consider this. | by joecrouse | 2006-11-20 20:18:46 |
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It's something she's considered, | by Ravenlock | 2006-11-20 23:03:15 |
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