In For Life

This is nuts. A man whose National Guard obligation was supposed to be completely finished has been ordered to return to active duty under the military's "stop-loss" policy. Emilio Santiago is fighting the orders in court, but the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected his case yesterday.

But the most insane part of it is that the Army has extended Santiago's service contract for another 27 years. WTF is that?? Stand up for your rights, and we'll just shanghai you and keep you as long as we want.

And they wonder why they're having so much trouble meeting their recruitment goals. To me it's amazing they can get anyone at all to sign up for this shit.

(via Eschaton and TalkLeft)