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Reporting For Duty

By Kleinheider Posted on July 3, 2008 at 6:16 pm

Bob Krumm, reporting from Iraq, tells tale of a very interesting ceremony going on in occupied Iraq:

As you get away for a long Independence Day weekend this evening, you might want to give a little thought to an event taking place in Baghdad tomorrow.  Eleven hundred Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines–the equivalent of two entire battalions–are celebrating the 4th of July by re-enlisting in the midst of what many call an “unpopular” war.

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2 Responses to “Reporting For Duty”

  1. Harrison writes
    July 3rd, 2008 6:27 pm

    Soldiers reenlisting has nothing to do with the validity or future strategy of a war. Most of them have been offered obscene reup bonuses, and to the average American enlisted soldier (a title I used to hold) those bonuses and the job security of the military and ability to provide for their families are the motivators for reenlisting…reenlistments are not a referendum on a war’r progress, as Krumm would have you believe.

  2. Bob K writes
    July 3rd, 2008 11:27 pm

    Thanks for the link. But I have a quibble.

    I am not in “occupied Iraq.” I am stationed in Iraq. It is its own sovereign nation. Were it not, there would be no need for the Status of Forces Agreement currently so much in the news.

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