Afghanistan

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by regular.joe

Happy, I know I've been a dick and an arrogant ass lately. I am not coming from that space right now. I just really need to let you know that we do indeed volunteer to do everything asked of us when we join the military. Man, speaking as a former Drill Sergeant, it takes all of the nine weeks of Basic Training to get this idea out of the heads of new soldiers.

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Reg Joe, I think you and HM are actually in agreement, witha slight miscommunication.

Right. What I was saying was that people going on multiple tours weren't necessarily volunteering for each tour individually. Once you join, you're volunteering to do whatever they lawfully require.

But in this case, I'm got impression from one discussion on NPR that he had in fact volunteered for the fourth tour after having trouble in civilian life after the first three. But I only caught part of the discussion.