The headlines in the recent days haven’t been so great to our military operation in the Middle East. We’ve had a group of soldiers that refused dangerous assignments with unarmed supply vehicles.

The debates continue to ferver with the drum beat of a potential draft. While there has been a supposed vote to state that we would not have a draft, things can change.

Members of the integrated ready reserves (IRR), and other reservists are being called up to fill missions that have nothing to do with the training that they have received on active/reserve duty. The IRR make up a group of people who don’t drill, don’t get paid, and aren’t eligible for advancement. This would include the individuals who signed up for 4 years of Active, with the 4 years inactive to total 8 years of service. This is what amounts to a backdoor draft.

Let’s keep the IRR out of this, they are the unwitting and unwilling volunteers.

I’m not in the IRR, btw…