Reply #5: I haven't seen the movie, but I don't understand the hype.

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The concept was very clearly called out, and even verbally explained, before I ever signed a contract to join the Armed Forces.

I'm sure it absolutely sucks to be held in when you think you're getting out, but you can't say you didn't accept the possibility when you enlisted. And since the war has been going on for five years now, nearly every person in the military has either enlisted or reenlisted at least once since it started. (There may be a few six-year enlistees out there who signed up in the last year before the war started, but they are few and far between.)

You may be able to convince me that it's unpleasant, but not that it's unfair.

(As I said, I haven't seen the show, so I don't even know if that's the thrust of the movie - just my .02 on stop loss.)