No, not the movie. Just the subject matter it protrayed. It was the dawn of a policy put in place that protects parents from loosing too many of their children in a war.
Found tucked into the bottom of an article on current recruitment failures, it shows how much scraping of the barrel the armed forces are willing to do before considering a draft.
More below the cut...
From the AP
The Army expects to miss its recruiting goals this month and next and is working on a revised sales pitch appealing to the patriotism of parents, Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey said Wednesday.
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Now don't get me started on trying to get parents to pressure their kids to go off to die....lets skip ahead to the statement I noted...
Harvey also disclosed that the Army is "looking at" changing its policy on having more than one sibling in a combat zone at the same time. He did not say how the policy might be altered, and he declined to say more about the subject, other than to indicate that it came up when he visited the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where wounded U.S. troops are treated.
The current policy is that if one of two siblings in a combat zone is killed, the Army will consider removing the remaining one from the combat zone if the surviving soldier or his parents request it, according to spokeswoman Hart. She said she was not aware of any planned change.
Lt. Col. Tom Collins, spokesman for Harvey, said later that Harvey was in the early stages of thinking through the whole issue and that no proposed changes had been developed yet.
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Talk about taking stop-loss to the n'th degree.
I can see the note now, with Rummy's rubber stamped signature on it. "We regret to inform you that your son Hank died yesterday for no good reason. but you can take pride in the fact taht your other son is still healthy enough to continue to dodge IED's for another 11 months, 3 days, and 17 minutes - at which point we might let him come home. Maybe."