This story from the
Miami Herald makes the previous story about Bush even harder to stomach.
After serving in Afghanistan and three times in Iraq, an Army Reserve sergeant from Port St. Lucie recoiled at still another deployment.
Erik Botta believes he's done right by his country. Days after 9/11, as a young Army reservist, he volunteered to go to war. He was soon in Afghanistan.
The next year, he was sent out again, this time to Iraq, part of a Special Operations team.
In the next two years, he was sent to Iraq again. And again.
He thought he was done. But now, the Army wants Sgt. Botta one more time.
The 26-year-old Port St. Lucie man has been ordered to report to Fort Jackson, S.C., on July 15 for his fifth deployment. And that has compelled Botta, a first-generation American who counts himself a quiet patriot, to do something he never thought he'd do: sue the Army.
This story from the Miami Herald makes the previous story about Bush even harder to stomach.
2 comments:
Hopefully with the inclusion of the attention from the press he will get his exemption. I'm armed and ready to fight Josh's next deployment. I want at least a year with him. I will literally go insane if I have to do this any longer. A crazy mom is not a good mom. A stressed mom isn't either.
Anyway... the DoD can claim they try to look at individual cases, but they most assuredly do not. No one is anything more than a name. They're so desperate for bodies they send and recall and send again regardless of the situation. They recalled the Navy petty officer who had previously been kicked out for being gay. Then they kicked him out AGAIN for being gay. Anything for Bush's failing "surge".
I know — it's amazing how fast they'll flip on an issue when it suits their needs!
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