"I'm not really a big fan of it myself, but no one asked for my opinion. It's my job, and his, to help take care of the soldiers who are over there, or who are going there, or who are coming home. "

Yes, exactly. That summarizes one of the BIG reasons I joined in 2004.

An associate of electorprince's was a Reserve nurse who sent him an e-mail saying she was resigning her commission (this was in 2003) the day he found someone he'd gone to OSUT with was killed. I was at my anti-war noisiest at the time and still said what a cowardly moron she was since she's in a *caring profession*. It's not as if she was expected to go and, I dunno, blow up Iraqi convents full of kittens and puppies or something.