Mommy Comes Home

April 3rd, 2009 News 14 Comments


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14 Responses to “Mommy Comes Home”

  1. Paddy says:
    April 3, 2009 at 8:09 pm

    Sniff.

  2. Michael says:
    April 3, 2009 at 8:17 pm

    Great pic, one mom comes home as my brother prepares to leave his family a second time.

  3. jrfunkenstein says:
    April 3, 2009 at 9:51 pm

    What a pathetic species we are that at this stage of our existence the best we can do in dealing with conflict is to take up arms against our own kind.

    Sometimes it’s impossible to believe that we deserve this planet.

  4. gruntled atheist says:
    April 3, 2009 at 10:14 pm

    Wonderful photo.

  5. PurpleGirl says:
    April 3, 2009 at 10:23 pm

    I hope she’ll be home for good now and not get sent off someplace else. Those two need each other very much. (wiping tears away…) (yes, I can be sentimental.)

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    April 4, 2009 at 8:11 am

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  7. News Reference says:
    April 4, 2009 at 8:58 am

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  8. Priorities says:
    April 4, 2009 at 1:19 pm

    Country first, family second? It is a voluntary army.

  9. Repack Rider says:
    April 4, 2009 at 7:14 pm

    It is a voluntary army.

    Is there an indication that she is Regular Army, or a reserve on her fourth or fifth tour?

    I have a friend who is an NCO (E-6) in the AF Reserve, and when she signed up long before 9/11 she didn’t expect to do four tours of Afghanistan. She thought she would be providing support for national emergencies, or at worst she might have to do ONE foreign tour in a reserve capacity. She didn’t “volunteer” for stop-loss, that’s for sure.

    One weekend a month, my ass. Glad I got out of the Army when the getting was good.

  10. Tim says:
    April 5, 2009 at 6:21 am

    wish they could all come home to their families and friends

  11. SFC B says:
    April 5, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    I have a friend who is an NCO (E-6) in the AF Reserve, and when she signed up long before 9/11 she didn’t expect to do four tours of Afghanistan.

    Have to call bullshit on this. She might have initially signed up prior to 9-11, but we’re now seven and a half years past that date. Since everyone’s initial enlistment is a maximum 8 years your friend has likely reenlisted at least once since 9-11. She made the choice to remain in the service fully aware of what was going on in the world. As of 9-12-2009 there will be no one in any of the services who has not enlisted or reenlisted without knowing what was going on in the world.

  12. Parthenon says:
    April 5, 2009 at 2:15 pm

    Country first, family second? It is a voluntary army.

    So what, because she volunteered she can’t be ecstatic to see her kid?

  13. Michael Over Here says:
    April 5, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    SFC B: As of 9-12-2009

    So, by your own admission, Repack’s friend could still very well be someone who hasn’t reupped yet seeing as we’re 5 months out from that date. Or alternatively could have signed up before and just recently ended her enlistment. I could see how the past several decades without full scale wars would have led someone to believe that signing up in 2000 wouldn’t mean having to go through stop-loss. Proof of that would be the difficulty recruiting over the past few years, something I would assume you have intimate knowledge of.

  14. SFC B says:
    April 6, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    Repack’s friend could still very well be someone who hasn’t reupped yet seeing as we’re 5 months out from that date.

    Nope. Repack is slinging bullshit. There is no way in hell that a USAF Tsgt who enlisted or reenlisted prior to 9-11 (let alone “long before 9/11″) is still an active member of the USAF, or its reserve components, at of today. None. Zero. If this person is still in, they have executed at least one reenlistment or voluntary extension since 9-11.

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