10 EXCELLENT REASONS NOT TO JOIN THE MILITARY

You May Not Receive Proper Medical Care

By Adele Kubein

After Adele Kubein's daughter, a National Guard soldier, broke her leg when her plane was shot down, her commanding officers bullied her into keeping the pain to herself. Finally two months after she was injured another officer saw her limping, sent her to the doctor and she was taken out of Iraq. But once home she still had to endure another battle -- getting medical care for her body and mind.

Adele writes:

"Most citizen soldiers get discouraged by the long wait for treatment and medical status. They sign away their right to medical care just to get home. They give up and try to deal with their disability through civilian channels, leaving the military off the hook."

About Adele Kubein

Adele Kubein was active in the peace movement during the Vietnam era. After 9/11, Adele began to write op-ed columns for the local papers regarding the need for foreign policy reform. In 1998 her daughter signed up with the National Guard. In November of 2002, Adele joined Military Families Speak Out. She has traveled around the United States and to Japan as a MFSO spokesperson, giving dozens of speeches and press conferences over the last three years.

Adele's daughter has requested that her name not be used publicly because she is still an active-duty soldier, dependent on the Army to provide her with wages and medical care. She has been asked by her superiors to remain silent and warned that her name should no longer be used by her mother in public.