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[theweaselking]

Soldiers in the US Army with only a short time left in their term of service are being told to re-enlist with a contract that will keep them in the Army and stateside until 2008, or they will be deployed immediately to Iraq for a year (regardless of whether or not their hitch is up in less than a year) after which time they will most likely be retained in the Army for three to four more years - whether they like it or not - due to a stop-loss order.

Basically, it's "Re-enlist voluntarily or you'll be sent to Iraq and then re-enlisted forcibly."