Soldier called back to duty on day before retirement

[Tinksrival]

(These people are total Assholes!)

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4664632

October 16, 2006 LINDENHURST, Ill. - Army Staff Sergeant James Engle is scheduled to return to Iraq at the end of this month, just days away from retirement after a 20-year military career.
Engle applied for retirement in January and even received a retirement award from the Army.

But late last month he was told paperwork was missing and he should report to his unit.

The Army then denied both his retirement request and a request for exemption from deployment to Iraq.

The Army said that the requests were neither "compelling nor compassionate enough in nature."

The 38-year-old Lindenhurst man joined the Army in August 1986.

During his two decades with the military he spent nine years in combat zones, including Somalia, Bosnia and Afghanistan.

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