Like many of you I suppose, I was feeling sorry for young Reserve Sgt Erik Botta. He is suing to keep from returning to Iraq because "he has been deployed four times already". Then today I saw a printout of his deployment history:
Erik Botta's Deployments:
2002: Seven months in Afghanistan
2003: One month in Iraq
2004: Three months in Iraq
Later in 2004: 15 days in Iraq
That would be eleven and one half months in 5 years. Not even one full year compared to the lengthier deployments of thousands of others. It's not for me to judge Sgt Botta, but in my head his four "deployments" look like some of John Kerry's Purple Heart wounds. In my day they called these 'TDY's', not deployments.
What do you think..........?
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