A single, 43 year old mother is called to go to Iraq

[Nightjock]

Medford single mother called back to active duty in Iraq


While most of her friends and neighbors are amusing themselves with Christmas decorations and holiday gifts, Patricia Arndt is fretting over far more serious matters.

The single mother from Medford has been unexpectedly pulled from the inactive Army reserve and ordered to report for active duty by Feb. 5.

As Christmas nears, Arndt, 43, is trying to sell the Medford home she says she will not be able to keep on an Army salary of approximately $60,000 a year, and is searching for someone to care for her 13-year-old son, Shane. She expects to train for an 18-month tour of duty that could take her to Iraq or Afghanistan.

She said she never saw her return to active duty as a possibility. "Never in a million years," she said.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lisold1208,0,5515557.story



Send your kids to Iraq bush, you lying, murdering, oval office stealing, fuckstick!!!

[SnowGoose]

1. Let's hear it for "family values"

...as much of a lie as their "culture of life" that drops bombs on wedding parties.

Hypocrites.

[gratuitous]

2. So NOW what is Jonah Goldberg's excuse?

I mean, he had a whole passel of excuses for not enlisting himself to fight a war that's so near and dear to his heart, including the fact that he has children at home. If Ms. Arndt can go, Mr. Goldberg can surely go!

In fact, he should go in her place.

[Spinzonner]

4. Oh nonsense

He has the standard Republican Chickenhawk excuse: He has other priorities

[bballny]

3. this is pathetic n/t

[Massacure]

5. $60,000 a year? That is more than both my parents make.

And I have brother and a sister that I live with.

[mcscajun]

7. But it's not enough to keep body, soul, a house, and a 13-year old

son together on Very Expensive Long Island, NY.

[Massacure]

8. Long Island? I must have missed that detail when I read the article.

It won't allow you to live comfortably on Long Island, but what I wouldn't do for that kind of money. That would put me through college, which I start next fall. O8)

[Selatius]

9. It's very expensive to live in a densely populated area

60,000 is superb out in the countryside, but if you're in or around a major metropolitan area like NYC, it's just adequate to sustain a lower middle class life.

[Bandit]

6. on an Army salary of approximately $60,000 a year,

I can remember being paid $44.00 every two weeks..got as high as $350.00 a month by time I was released..

[newblewtoo]

10. I remember those days

but:

Arndt, a respiratory therapist at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center and a small-business owner, has been called back to active status after 20 years as a reservist. She spent four years of active duty in the Army in the 1980s based in Germany prior to becoming "an individual mobilization augmentee reservist" -- which required her to fill in for regular duty soldiers called to overseas duty

She should have seen this coming, they are short on most medical specialties....

[TheCentepedeShoes]

11. So when are Jenna and Lil Babs

gonna sign on the line? And they're college grad-u-ates. They can go in as ossifers.