US soldiers in Iraq held against their will
Harmon Seaver
hseaver at cybershamanix.com
Sun Aug 17 15:20:18 PDT 2003
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:21:43PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
> On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 01:43 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>
> >On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:04:09PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
> >>On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> >>
> >>> Just heard about this local guy who reluctantly went to Iraq
> >>>because
> >>>he was in the reserves, now his contract is up (as of 7/31) and they
> >>>won't let him out.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>I've known for more than 40 years that there's always been language in
> >>the deal the Reservists make that say they can be called back as
> >>needed, in times of war. And kept in until not needed.
> >>
> >>If this guy didn't know that Reserve pay comes with strings attached,
> >>he should have.
> >> No sympathy from me.
> >>
> >
> > That doesn't jive with the statutes:
>
> You said he was in the reserves. And that's what I commented on.
>
> Below you are quoting use of the _National Guard_.
Sorry, I mispoke -- he's in the Guard.
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Harmon Seaver
CyberShamanix
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