Should a Soldier with 2 Purple Hearts from 2 previous tours in Iraq be ordered to serve a third tour?

Sgt. Ismael Solorio, 21, of San Luis, Ariz., died Monday during his third Iraq deployment,Solorio, a high school honor student, passed up college scholarships to join the Army, his sister said. With his parents' permission, he enlisted at age 17.


On his 1st tour in Iraq, a snipers bullet shattered his jaw and took out all his teeth.


On his second tour, a roadside bomb left him with shrapnel wounds.


He was awarded 2 Purple Hearts.


During his last visit home in January, he married his High School sweetheart and mother of his 1 year old daughter.


"My husband was diagnosed with PTSD, extreme depression, and still he was sent back," his newlywed wife said of his third tour.





A Fort Carson spokesman said all soldiers must pass a screening before being deployed. "They go through an entire process that checks everything. It's medical, it's mental health, it's the whole gamut," said the post's Karen Linne.

Should a Soldier with 2 Purple Hearts from 2 previous tours in Iraq be ordered to serve a third tour?
That is how we know to the U.S. goverment U.S. soldiors are just a number not a human being
Reply:yes, hes already done well taking 2 for the team the 3rd time is a charm. This is called the reality of the fundamentalist war with Islam and the Oil monopolizing. This story has been repeated hundreds of times all different names. The Iraqis have suffered horribly no one cares. Why does it always take a few years of conflict to open peoples eyes to the true nature of war??? Bail on Iraq, bail on a military industrial complex, get out of hegemony. Take the hit and just sell corn at a higher price!!
Reply:I am sorry for this loss. What is sad to me is that there are not more people like this young man, who stepped to the call of duty. There would be no reason for this Sgt. to have gone on three tours if we had millions more like him. My husband is on his fourth tour - he volunteered to go. I think about the young men that stood in line to join the military during other conflicts and I think it is a shame that the Nintendo generation thinks their sagging pants are more important than their country. If you look at the college enrollement rate in this country - you know that a vast majority of these boys also do not attend college. What is happening to our Men?
Reply:The soldiers I know can't be ordered back a third time but got $20,000 to go the third time I guess it depends on the branch of the service you join.
Reply:no one should be ordered to kill, if they want to go back, it's slightly better.
Reply:Bush and Rummy have ground up our fighting forces. There isn't much left.





That's why the extension to 15 months, that's why the National Guard is headed back, that's why the AF's are paying out record re-up bonuses...etc.





Very few people want to join the military anymore, because they know exactly what will become of them.





That's too bad abut that soldier. Really. I wish the American people had enough common sense not to elect such a pushover for president.





Now we reap the consequences...and all those soldiers and their families as well.
Reply:dont know the rules,but i thought it was a all volunteer military.god bless are soldiers,every single one!