Army aviators, ready to leave military, are told they owe 3 more years instead

“…a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.

Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions.

Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them.

If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to.”

I do not understand how a three year service obligation can be interpreted explocitly as being served concurrently. This was most likely a "gentlemen's understanding" among officers, and the reality is that the choice of big army to change its mind about what a contract says has always rested with them.

From a legal perspective this even sounds above board, cause the UCMJ is for the most part a legal framework that is primarily about swift, not just, punishment, and giving commanders authority over everything but certain things, instead of a system where authority for specific things is permitted, and nothing else.

Enlisted people get screwed like this regularly, every day. Some people enlisted for high demand low recruiting fields are activated out of IRR after finishing active duty, the epitome of backdoor conscription. This sounds similar to the pilot's situation, and they don't like it.

When you're in the military they control your life. Surprise!

There’s going to be some contract law cases over this I think. If I have papers saying 4 years I would think I could argue it’s 4 years. If it’s not we’ll defined that perhaps that’s not the army’s fault?