NBC: Army stop-loss policy a back-door draft
NBC news reports that the Army’s stop-loss policy has forced 58,000 soldiers to stay in Iraq past their reenlistment dates.
Ed Janosik, a retired infantry major of the U.S. Army, writes that the stop-loss policy is an insult to U.S. troops.
This video is from NBC’s Nightly News, broadcast May 18, 2008.
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