Amid War, Troops See Safety in Reenlisting By Faye Fiore
Los Angeles Times
May 21, 2006
(Staff Sgt. Matthew Kruger) looked around the job market, and it didn’t take long to figure out that leaving the Army held its own perils. Nothing offered him the financial security of his military job – especially the generous health coverage for his wife and three small children.
“We had nothing. We were scared,” (his wife) Maggie said recently… “We suddenly realized there was no way to take the kids to the doctor or dentist for any little reason, as we had been used to.”
For Kruger, who returned to a war zone for his third tour in December, the danger of losing his family’s health insurance was more real and immediate than the danger of dying in combat.
Comment:
By Don McCanne, M.D.
…. (silence)