Friday, April 08, 2005

Enlistment is a Contract

Another court rejects 'stop-loss' challenge
The fact that some do not understand the enlistment agreement made when one enlist in the military is astonishing. The "stop loss", as they call it, is in there, we called it "needs of the Army" in my day.
SAN FRANCISCO -- For the second time in as many days, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a Pasco soldier's challenge to the military's 'stop-loss' policy that extends enlistments during war.
The entire panel of the San Francisco-based court yesterday declined to hear a motion for an injunction by Sgt. Emiliano Santiago to keep him from being sent to Afghanistan. On Wednesday, a three-member court panel in Seattle denied his appeal seeking release from the Army.

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