If Only They Could Find The Boy Who Could Fly

This is horrible:

Jared didn't know there was a war raging in Iraq until his parents told him last fall -- shortly after a military recruiter stopped him outside a Portland strip mall and complimented his black Converse All-Stars.
             
"When Jared first started talking about joining the Army, I thought, `Well, that isn't going to happen,"' said Paul Guinther, Jared's father. "I told my wife not to worry about it. They're not going to take anybody in the service who's autistic."
             
But they did. Last month, Jared came home with papers showing that he had not only enlisted, but signed up for the Army's most dangerous job: cavalry scout. He is scheduled to leave for basic training Aug. 16.

I don't know it happened, but somewhere along the way military recruiters have positioned themselves to threaten lawyers at the top of the vox populi disdain-o-meter.  Methinks the higher-ups have put much to much pressure on these guys to meet increasingly unmeetable quotas that they will stop at very little to fill them.

Comments

[Ty]

Did you by chance read what I wrote last week? http://tonguetyed.blogspot.com/2006/05/back-to-future.html

I really think we are headed toward a draft (not to mention all the other things I see coming)...

Although, as someone I know said recently, if there was a draft, our problems with illegal immigrants would certainly change...

[Ms. Q]

I read that yesterday and I have to say I was really not that surprised. Since my son enlisted I've learned to despise recruiters more than I thought humanly possible.

I don't like the reporter saying that Cavalry Scout is "the Army's most dangerous job" and I don't like it for three reasons. One, it's really not true. Two, every job in the Army is potentially the "most dangerous". Three, my son is a Cavalry Scout.

[Ms. Q]

I should add: I wasn't surprised but I am still appalled beyond belief! Arrrrgghhhh.

I missed you, Dylan. I am so glad you're back.

[Dylan]

I read that today, Ty.

I just don't think a draft is likely, as politically unpopular as this administration is today, there is no way they could muster through enough support to reinstate a draft. Hell, they can't muster up enough REPUBLICAN support on their new CIA nominee.

And that is, in a way, what results in situations like this. The recruiters have to get people... I mean they HAVE to, and now they are stopping at nothing to get it done.

[Ty]

I don't think they would do it NOW, but regardless of the president's popularity, if we suddenly had a confrontation with Iran (which is increasingly looking like that is what Ahmadinejad is after) we wouldn't have enough troops. What do you do then? How do you get the troops needed to defend against a third front? What if things got worse with N. Korea?? There are an awful lot of people pissed off at us right now, and there isn't an immediate way to stop them militarily. If there was, I'm pretty sure autism would keep that young man from qualifying.

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