July 22, 2005

Looking for a Few Good Middle-Aged Men

Faced with major recruiting problems sparked by troop deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has asked Congress to raise the maximum age for U.S. military enlistees from 35 to 42 years old.

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Blogger JAB said...

Every other man in my family served in the military, from my uncle horrendously wounded in a B-17 over Germany, to my half-brother Grant, a Green Beret Vietnam underwater demo expert who once set a free-fall multiple parachute jump record over Belgium.

I stand by their advice to this day:

Don't join the Army.

July 23, 2005 at 10:11 AM  

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