RE: This chap just wants to get out of the army discuss
September 23, 2010 at 10:19 pm
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2010 at 10:20 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
(September 23, 2010 at 4:33 pm)lrh9 Wrote: What is there to discuss? Currently the United States army is a voluntarily staffed and manned army. If someone wants to leave they have the right to leave.
You mean morally? There is no such right.
Legally? Not sure that's right. I think a contract is signed. The US military has also used a practice called "Stop loss" preventing soldiers from leaving even once their contract has expired.
The soldier in question is stuffwit. His status of conscientious objector would not be be recognised either in a volunteer army ,nor as a Muslim. There's a technical term used in the Australian army for the young man's predicament: EL FUCKING STIFFO!
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Quote:Stop-loss is a term primarily used in the United States military. In the U.S. military, it is the involuntary extension of a service member's active duty service under the enlistment contract in order to retain them beyond their initial end of term of service (ETS) date and up to their contractually agreed end of obligated service (EOS). It also applies to the cessation of a permanent change of station (PCS) move for a member still in military service. Stop-loss was used immediately before and during the first Persian Gulf War. Since then, it has been used during deployments to Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo and after the September 11 attacks and the subsequent War on Terror.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-loss_policy
