Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) Mom Reports to Benning with Kids

A very interesting article on MSNBC titled, "Soldier Mom Plans to Report for Duty with Kids". She filed for an exemption and it appears it was denied. Now she is going to call their bluff and bring the entire family with her. Fantastic!! That is great. If the Army wants to send a family to war, have at it! Although, I do not remember her posting here so rather than higher a high priced lawyer who appears to have lost, she should have come here and won with a lot of people who have won here. 

There is the obligatory baloney from the St. Louis spokesperson Keith O'Donnell (who calls himself a Master Sergeant. Here is some crap he throws:

"The Army tries to look at the whole picture and they definitely don't want to do anything that jeopardizes the family or jeopardizes the children," O'Donnell said. "At the same time, these are individuals who made obligations and commitments to the country."

Of course he does not discuss the obligations and commitments the Army has made to the IRR from about the beginning of time. The IRR was meant for WWIII not an augmentation because the current Army is too small or too incompetent to fight a war. Imagine, after 5 years of fighting this war we are still so small and so incompetent, and the war is still such a quagmire, that they are still calling up IRR soldiers. We had won WWII by this time. The IRR called up for the first gulf war were for about 90 days and even those were just back fill for the Army which actually went to fight. 
I encourage more to do this. Bring kids, dogs, families, sick grandparents. Bring the lot of them and let the Army "sort it out".