I'm hoping it ends soon too. It is dragging on already. Emily is pretty pissed off at Uncle Sam. She had just gotten established in her own apartment and was working(federal law states that she has to get her job back when she returns from duty). She wasn't even out of the Army for a year. She got out 021407 and was called back to active duty on 012708. I guess when she signed on there was some clause in there that gave them permission to call her back all the way up to 2010. Her orders state that she will be on active duty for no more than a 400 days unless extended or shortened by appropriate authority. Leave it to the government to be totally ambiguous. She has already been to Iraq twice and we are all hoping that she will stay in Missouri this time. She is a military police officer and they do dangerous convoys of dignitaries in war zones. She is scared but I told her that only the good die young, smart asses like her live forever.
Ugh, that's why I'll never sign my life away to the military. You are their pawn forever. Even when you think you're free, you're still theirs. Sucky. I just hope Emily's ok, and they don't use her as a guinea pig as they have others...
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