Food groups

One of my coworkers this morning attempted to declare a jelly donut as a near-complete food. There's jelly, which (theoretically) means fruit. The donut itself has eggs, milk, and grains. Sounded good to me, so I ate three.

OK, not really. The banana muffins someone brought in were good, though.

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Reenlist or get Stop Lossed - your choice!

Some soldiers at Third Brigade Combat Team have been told that they need to reenlist for present duty assignment or go to Iraq which means they'll get stoplossed and their enlistments will be extended indefinitely anyway. Althought they aren't literally being told this, it is implied.

bq. "There's probably a lot of places on post where they could put those folks (who don't re-enlist) until their time expires. But I don't want to rule out the possibility that they could go to a unit that might deploy," said Healy.

So, they just might get sent to Iraq, there's just no way to be sure. But, hey, we've got an offer you can't refuse. Reenlist for Third Brigade and you won't have to go to Iraq (so far as we have planned right now). Then, when the global war on terror is over (surely in less than three years, right?), you'll be free to get out with no more Stop Loss looming.

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