Thanks for the words of comfort, hon. While your advice is very practical - of course nobody would want to serve with people who don't want to be there in the first place, I completely agree with the wisdom of an all-volunteer army - I don't have any degree of confidence that the administration will see the practicality of it. So much of the policy of late has been a "My mind is made up, do NOT confuse me with facts!" mindset that practicality does not enter into the picture. What happened to the old fashioned notion of "check your facts, collect the results and proceed accordingly?" Right now the motto seems to be "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" Oh, yeah, that and "Either yer fer us, yer or ag'in' us!" *Please!*

((Hugs you, because I worry as much about my friends and family in the military as I worry about my boys))