-Leaving 1 in every 1,000 Americans away from their families, loved ones, and jobs for an extended period of time.
Jeroen replied:
Away from their jobs? The US doesn't have the draft, so for all those soldiers being a soldier *is* their job. Therefore they are not kept away from their job, they have gone where there job took them.
Not necessarily true. Many soldiers involved are reserves. These reservists *are* away from their regular jobs right now. And for many of the regular duty forces that are currently in Iraq, the posts where they came from are now being handled by reservists.
I don't have the stats handy as to how many reservists have been called up, but it's been widely reported that 1 in 1000 Americans is the neighborhood of Iraq and involved in the current military operations there. When you take into account that some of these are reservists and some of these are people who have their regular posts replaced by reservists, John's statement stands as correct.
Reggie Bautista
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