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In reply to the discussion: A disturbing e-mail from the Army today. [View all]keithbvadu2
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I wouldn't be surprised if they started calling up merchant marine officers either.....
getagrip_already
Mar 2020
#8
There was an Army ship in port in Baltimore some, I don't know, four or five years ago. NT
mahatmakanejeeves
Mar 2020
#57
Interesting, retired medical specialties for manning field hospitals, expecting many new hotspots?
Baclava
Mar 2020
#11
The point is that the Army staff is big on planning for any mission that might arise.
TomSlick
Mar 2020
#13
The Air Force has large Air Transportable Hospitals, set up all over the world, them too?
Baclava
Mar 2020
#14
The e-mail came through DFAS - the Defense Finance and Accounting Service - a DoD agency but
TomSlick
Mar 2020
#16
Does the USMC have any medical MOS? I thought the Navy filled those roles. nt
JustABozoOnThisBus
Mar 2020
#41
I bet dollars to donuts, that if for some reason they decided a 74 yo with you MOS could help
GulfCoast66
Mar 2020
#58
Thanks for sharing this- I feel reassured that competent people are planning and looking out for us.
NBachers
Mar 2020
#19
That is the Deep State: a corps of career people competently doing their jobs.
JustABozoOnThisBus
Mar 2020
#42
When they brought back the battleships, they recalled some old fart gunner's mates.
keithbvadu2
Mar 2020
#21
Someone on either Rachel Maddow or Lawrence O'Donnell talking about it this evening.
2naSalit
Mar 2020
#28
Piney woods of Arkansas? You near Magnolia in Columbia county? That where my family lives.
GulfCoast66
Mar 2020
#62