anecdotal evidence on how thinly the military is stretched today

[HootieMcBoob]

I just got off the phone with my sister. It seems that our cousin who is 40 years old and a cook in the Army reserves is going to Iraq for a year.

But he's a cook? I thought KBR was doing all the food stuff there?

Turns out, they've given him a new MOS: infantry! They stuck his ass in the infantry! A 40 year old cook!!! I have to get more details on this because is sounds totally fucked up. If they're taking 40 year old cooks from the reserves and transferring them to infantry divisions we're totally screwed.

She says he's scared to death. I think she said he's a Fort Bliss right now being trained.

Man - you know a draft is right around the corner when this kind of shit is going on.